Personally I love people being excited about tech, and people who were really limited in what they could do being able to do really cool things with AI and doing all kinds of weird things with it. I find the attitude in the article really unappealing, they want to poo poo on peoples excitement over what they can do now. Try and make out its all "boring" etc, but its the cusp of quite a big change in how we interact with computers and the thing we need the most right now is people who are imagining what we can do with it. Feel free to go back to your smoking or whatever, find other grumpy cynics to complain about everything and anything while pretending you are somehow having a better conversation.