Comment by sensanaty

The hype machine is this technology's worst enemy. When I zoom out and look at things objectively, it's kind of crazy what we have at our fingertips, we can talk to our computers in plain and even vague human languages and have the computers actually accomplish what we ask of it! It's literally sci-fi magic come to life, and the nerd in me finds it the coolest thing ever.

But then the industry and the companies involved in it have all ruined it with this INSANE hype machine that has been so hyperbolic and psychotic and full of lies since day 0. Instead of embracing it all in a reasonable manner as a useful tool that can help boost people's productivity in certain workflows, it now HAS to be the most transformative technology of all time lest the trillions of dollars burned up come crashing down on the entire global economy hard. It HAS to be AGI, it HAS to replace every single knowledge worker, it HAS to be the most dangerous technology ever known to man.

It's like we've completely lost the ability for subtlety, and everything HAS to be the biggest and best thing ever that will revolutionize humanity immediately. Not only have we lost subtlety, we're actively rewarding this idiotic short-sighted behavior and it's all just so depressing