Comment by bee_rider

I think the comparison to humans is just totally useless. It isn’t even just that, as a tool, it should be better than humans at the thing it does, necessarily. My monitor is on an arm, the arm is pretty bad at positioning things compared to all the different positions my human arms could provide. But it is good enough, and it does it tirelessly. A tool is fit for a purpose or not, the relative performance compared to humans is basically irrelevant.

I think the folks making these tools tend to oversell their capabilities because they want us to imagine the applications we can come up with for them. They aren’t selling the tool, they are selling the ability to make tools based on their platform, which means they need to be speculative about the types of things their platform might enable.