No they are just lapping this stuff up. I am at minimum somewhat qualified to speak on these matters and yet friends and family do not care, the fact that I can actually explain to them what is happening on a technical level does not matter, they are so excited for the future and what the TV men say that they can't wait for machines to become smarter than humans - which will never happen, they will surpass humans at a wider variety of tasks than they already have, and they will be able to access a wider berth of information quicker than any human and draw conclusions from it algorithmically, and these things will be mistaken for intelligence, but it will never be more intelligent than a human because AI will always need to be programmed to fulfill a specific task. They will just chain up enough of these systems to fool people. Case in point, other people who I know understand the technicals of what's going on still worship at the altar of chatGPT, but really it's just a search engine with some language recognition