A characteristic of the field since the beginning. Reading What Computers Can't Do in college (early 2000s) was an important contrast for me.

A great misunderstanding accounts for public confusion about thinking machines, a misunderstanding perpetrated by the unrealistic claims researchers in AI have been making, claims that thinking machines are already here, or at any rate, just around the corner.

Dreyfus' last paper detailed the ongoing history of the "first step fallacy", where AI researchers tend to wildly extrapolate initial success as promising, perhaps even guaranteeing, wild future successes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Dreyfus's_views_on_arti...