The future-shaping rhetoric of Nvidia’s chief executive, Jensen Huang, (or the “godfather of AI” as he has been crowned) is as dramatically positive as it has been for the last two years. Still, he is suddenly being faced on earnings calls by nitpicking questions that show how quickly the fantastic can become mundane.

Shares in the world’s biggest company fell over 2 per cent after the company announced quarterly earnings that met or exceeded almost all the growth expectations, including stunning dollar figures that the markets now expect to be par for the course.