I consider generative AI to be a technological breakthrough - that’s the pattern we’ve settled into for progress: long plateaus and then rapid iteration on anything that breaks the plateau. Obviously, it is a small one and no one where remotely close to what people claim or want it to be. It does serve to demonstrate how unerringly, completely FUCKED we are if we ever get close to artificial intelligence. We blew up the economy after inventing artificial stupidity. We’re fated to rug-pull eachother into the stratosphere gambling on how long until we accidentally nuke ourselves.