I want to tell you what I see coming.

I've been lucky enough to be working on AI for almost 15 years now.

Back when I started, to describe it as fringe would be an understatement.

Researchers would say, "No, no, we're only working on machine learning." Because working on AI was seen as way too out there.

In 2010, just the very mention of the phrase "AGI, " artificial general intelligence, would get you some seriously strange looks and even a cold shoulder.

"You're actually building AGI?" people would say.

"Isn't that something out of science fiction?" People thought it was 50 years away or 100 years away, if it was even possible at all.

Talk of AI was, I guess, kind of embarrassing.

People generally thought we were weird.

And I guess in some ways we kind of were.