I agree had is fashion and many projects promised a lot, but in the end we saw the projects just going down because crypto still faces some prejudice. Lot's of disappointments into the alt world and even people saying that crypto is just for speculation, such as alt coins and meme coins could be in the same bag. But still has some potential to transform.

but not these dumb ai mimicking humans, a real self aware, who knows if I'll ever see that coming

AI is doing great things for drugs discovery by the way =)