The view that 99%+ of people now paying attention to AI got into it less than a year ago

One commenter’s mental model is that 99%+ of people now paying attention to AI were onboarded to something AI-related less than a year ago. They say this confuses people who have been in the field longer. Another commenter agrees and says shared experiments and thoughts can open discussions that get lost amid hateful replies and cheap jabs aimed at getting likes.