[broast]

It's like dealing with electricity (or maybe the internet). Early skeptics believe it is a curiosity with little application. People see how it can jump all over the place and create disasters that they can't imagine having engineered systems to finely control its behavior and create reliable complex functions and become the bedrock for computing.

[pstorm]

I think there is also an aspect of willful disregard. This technology may change a lot, and it may be easier to dismiss that idea rather than process it.

[ChatGTP]

Do you think there might be the opposite going on ? Wanting to believe something that isn’t there because you won’t have to do as much work, feel smarter etc ? Because it’s really hard not to anthropomorphize it ?

Gloss over all the incredible dangers we might be exposing our world too just because it’s “fun to play with” and see what AutoGPT can do to the Internet ?