It’s interesting to hear about AI not passing the bar, but otherwise I don’t think the opinion piece is a good take. Complaining that AI isn’t smart enough or pointing out it can’t take people’s jobs yet doesn’t mean it won’t get smarter. And pointing out other technologies that didn’t develop doesn’t mean the same thing will happen here. Remember those news stories about the internet being a fad?

I use chatgpt pretty much every day to help with hobbyist coding. It’s useful to me right now. I expect with time it will continue to grow in usefulness.

I also expect AI will be a vector for spam, propaganda and surveillance. While I may not believe it’s going to become our digital god I do think it’s something people are right to talk about, and game out how we as a society want to handle its impact.