Chess-Effect: AI Achievements Get Devalued

Whatever new thing AI can do, everybody first thinks is brilliant, then 20 years later calls it mechanical — chess was 'intelligent' in 1960 but 'mechanical' by 2010; today we think language ability is intelligent, but in 20 years humans will define a new niche (e.g. 'can it reproduce?') because humans always carve out a niche to feel special.