People currently arguing that artificial intelligence is not going to happen are making the same mistake as people who concluded that heavier than air flight was impossible a few short years before The Wright Bros did it. pic.twitter.com/VeyQM2cYkp

— Misha Gurevich, Futurist (@drethelin) June 13, 2022

Agreed. I am not one of those “AI is the gravest threat ever and is going to kill us all next week” losers, but people were insistent for a long time that heavier-than-air flight was impossible. And they were right for a long time. Then one day, they weren’t. AI is probably a lot like this.