Comment by foldr

>I mean there has been a long history of "you can't do this with computers".

Historically, people have both grossly overestimated and grossly underestimated future technological progress. Some people thought computers would never be able to play chess; others thought we'd have superhuman AGI in 2001. The bottom line is that people's past and current ignorance tells us nothing about what the future is actually going to be like.