Okay, need to point out the obvious - a teleportation machine which takes you to the wrong place is a major issue. You really wouldn’t want to materialize to the wrong place.
That's exactly my point. It's a really big issue and before it was used for things of consequence that needs to get resolved. But it's still a freaking teleportation machine!
I mean we now have chatbots that pretty much pass the Turing Test as Turing would have envisioned it -- and people are like, "Yeah... but sometimes it lies or has a bad attitude, so is it really all that impressive?"
Or that story where the teleportation machine actually has a chance of cloning you instead, so the clones have to be euthanized, except it might be you instead.
I mean we now have chatbots that pretty much pass the Turing Test as Turing would have envisioned it -- and people are like, "Yeah... but sometimes it lies or has a bad attitude, so is it really all that impressive?"