If there’s one line the tech giants of the world have been incessantly trying to drill into our skulls for the past few years—in product release events, media appearances, and one terrible ad after another—it’s that AI is going to change pretty much everything about our lives, very, very quickly.

But in the face of heated, widespread public backlash against the data centers powering the AI boom, steep costs for customers , and other hurdles, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been backtracking on that narrative. He admits that he and his fellow dyed-in-the-wool AI true believers may have been a tad too optimistic in their forecasts, and that it will…

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