[mrshadowgoose]

> It seems like there is some resentment and almost anger at this technology, particularly with the artistic AIs like Midjourney. I can understand that more readily, but what's the real beef with ChatGPT?

People seem to have a real tough time accepting that human brains might not be that special. They see things like GPT-4, and tend to fall into soothing mental traps to rationalize that innate but baseless rejection. I actually view all the sustained anger and resentment as a signal that we are making meaningful inroads into AGI, as it means that people are actually being impacted.

One of the most common mental traps is "It's just fancy autocomplete." People tend to stop there and don't proceed to consider that the veracity of that claim is irrelevant. Autocomplete or not, GPT-4 seems to be able to provide meaningful assistance to certain workflows that were previously only within the bounds of human cognition.

> People want it to perform better than any expert human at any possible subject before it's considered "real AI". It isn't enough for critics for it to be better than the average person at virtually everything its put to the test on.

It's quite amusing that some people have moved their goalposts to "well it's not a superintelligence, therefore it's worthless". Simultaneously, it's highly depressing, because it means various actors will likely achieve AGI while the rest of us are still bickering about autocomplete and Chinese rooms.