Is the AI industry racing towards a point where the tech’s progress stalls out or slows to a crawl? “There is a clear possibility that we will hit a wall, that there’s some difficulty that we don’t foresee right now, and we don’t find any solution quickly,” Yoshua Bengio, one of the “godfathers” of AI, told The Guardian. “A lot of the people who are putting trillions right now into AI are also expecting the advances to continue fairly regularly at the current pace.”Part of the problem is that the AI industry has hyped itself into an impossibly high-stakes situation. Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, for example, favors calling it — whatever “it” is — an AI “superintelligence” instead. More on AI: AI Completely Failing to Boost Productivity, Says Top Analyst