“and then they randomly drive straight into a highway divider at full speed on a clear day with no traffic”

If you don’t think this is a difference in degree rather than kind, you probably overestimate human reliability or underestimate machine learning. Either way, I find myself quite surprised lately to see this dismissive attitude prevailing amongst the one group of people I would think should know better. Even stranger are people who thought crypto would change the world look upon language models and say, “meh”. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.