I feel like software developers are some of the most empowered people on the planet, and yet we continue to push and enable the dumbest crap and make the most overhyped predictions about it. I don't understand how we can be so self-deluded to look at a chatbot that has mastered the art of bullshitting and act like this is some consequential, state-of-the-art thing. To make such ridiculous predictions about the future based on the ability of this thing to sound convincing.
I genuinely hope our delusions and complete ignorance of the wider world completely destroys the illusion we've built in the public imagination. I hope this is the end of "tech" as it's widely perceived. I hope the rest of the world sees our "world" as the joke it really is. Hell, I think it's already started.