Comment by Loquebantur
2 hours ago
That's a misconception and manipulative framing on your part.
While "some chatbot" isn't the problem, general intelligence superior to humans absolutely is.
AI allows anybody to enact essentially anything. And your "level a major city" is just a small task really. The problem there is your lack of imagination, not the actual impossibility of that task.
So, in other words, none of this is about anything related to the actual technology and instead people are talking about the made up, fake technology that you read in Sci-fi book.
Thats the annoying part about these conversations. People try to smuggle in the conclusion of "And now I wave a magic wand that does literally anything, by magic" when discussing stuff that everyone can use and see right now that clearly isn't that.