TechTakes

Let the haters hate.

Despite the welcome growth of atheism, almost all humans at one level or another cling to the idea that our monkey brains are filled with some magic miraculous light that couldn't possibly be replicated. The reality is that some of us only have glimmers of sapience, and many not even that. Most humans, most of the time, are mindless zombies following a script, whether due to individual capacity, or a civilization that largely doesn't reward metacognition or pondering the questions that matter, as that doesn't immediately feed individual productivity or make anyone materially wealthier.

AI development isn't finally progressing quickly and making people uncomfortable with its capability because it's catching up to our supposedly amazing superbrains (that enmasse spent hundreds of thousands of years wandering around in the dirt before it finally occurred to any of them that we could grow food seasonally in one place). It's making a lot of humans uncomfortable because it's demonstrating that there isn't a whole hell of a lot to catch up to, especially for an average human.

There's a reason pretty much everyone immediately discarded the Turing Test and basically called it a bullshit metric after elevating it for decades as a major benchmark in the development of AI systems... The moment a technology that could readily pass it became available. That's the blind hubris of man on grand display.