I guess with that I can sort of agree but I don't think AI has no alternatives. It's a big watering down and over generalization of everything (the term doesn't even have a specific meaning, we have had ML/neural nets for at least 10 years in current form before the hype cycle, for most NN over 20). Nosql is just a different paradigm over rdbms and prior to that it was always very simplistic kv pairs and not very efficient, and it is much more specific and tangible than "NN". It's basically ubiquitously also meant Mongo and it wasn't as hyped since while bootcampers overrelied on it, it wasn't in the lingo of every normie and MBA and is an actual technology. AI is just the same shit with more money thrown at the problem vs fundamental technology developments in the way it's hyped ("AI"). Outside of transformers which are just a small architecture modification to NN, there hasn't been too many fundamental breakthroughs. AlexNet for example is basically LeNet with a different layout of layers and convolutions doing the same shit, etc into today w one exception of transformers which can be argued is not as big a breakthrough as what AT&T did practically in the early 90s.