My take on why people are unimpressed is that Microsoft and all the other AI companies are fighting the common image of an AI computer from Star Trek. In Star Trek the computer always answers correctly quickly, doesn't hallucinate and is integrated with everything. The everyday experience for most users with AI is that it's not integrated well with anything except for a handful of specific integrations, it makes stuff up which is often wrong or doesn't understand the question as asked, and doesn't have instant integration to everything. Turn on my living room lights without having to go through a potentially excruciating setup process. When AI scientists finally understand and contain the hallucination problem and system. Integrators finally have an easy way for AI to discover integrations. The viewpoint will probably change. But I think we're talking about decades before we reach that point.

Did anyone else notice that while all the articles provided the time that the impact would happen, none provided a time zone reference so that those who want to plan to watch it know what time they need to be outside with their telescope? Just my 2 cents on the reporting.....