Close to 2 years. I think I'm at the same starting point, neither more optimistic nor more pessimistic.

This reddit has a lot of people very hopeful about radical and unimaginable changes. As for example the simulation of a virtual world completely indistinguishable from the real one in a few decades (or less) or an AI capable of solving all the structural problems of society. I remain skeptical about this, however much I want it.

A lot of impressive technologies have come out (the one that interests me the most at the moment is the generation of artificial images, very cool), there are also discussions about obsolete human work and UBI. But in the end, none of that seems too close and tomorrow is going to be another day like today.

At least artificial intelligence girlfriends still seem to be something possible in an average period of time (I'm not talking about boring, repetitive and monotonous chat bots like replika), so I'm still waiting for more news in the area (very little about this subject appears here)