It's so funny when people say "real AI is inevitable in a few years" when there's so much tech that has huge funding, many bright people and has been worked on for decades with little to show for.
Fusion energy, superconductors, quantum computers, ubiquitous crewed spaceflight, the list goes on.
It's been going literally since the 1950s that "AI will be here in 𝓍 years", with 𝓍 depending on the current hype level, but usually somewhere between 2 and 10 years.
"But this time it's real!", mkay.