What I believe is most fascinating is that many people are fairly sure that history is being written (assuming Microsoft/OpenAI/sama remain a/the leader on the AI front).
But there is so much secrecy and uncertainty that it's completely unclear what meaning the drama will have in hindsight.
Maybe we reach utopia by 2050 and it all goes down in history as "wow, it was an epic ride worthy of a Hollywood hero story!"
Or we have a few years before a panopticon dystopia where we're all thinking "damn, we came so close to saving it all!"
Or, as is the most likely outcome in everything, it's mostly business as usual for 100 more years, and most of the drama is completely forgotten, while a couple of stories end up as Netflix docu-fiction series to watch on a rainy Sunday.
What's everyone's bet at the moment?