It's sad. People's entire sense of worth is attached to their jobs. They will lie to themselves and others about the ineffectiveness of AI to feel better. Even if it trips up on some minor thing there's no reason that progress will just stop and that the SOTA version 2-3 years from now won't be leagues better. Compare what we have now to 2-3 years ago, and now the investment solely in training, ignoring the algorithmic and architectural advances, is 10x greater.

There really is no going back.