The quotes in the post are made by people in an attempt to sound profoundly predictive on some vague super-ai future. Its good to call out that bullshit.

On the other end of the spectrum is that people - demonstrably - like access to the ability to have a computer spew out a (somewhat coherent) relevant suggestion.

The distance between those is enormous. Without a vocabulary to distinguish between those two extremes people are just talking past each other. As demonstrated (again) in this thread.

Consequently one side has to pull out their "you're ignoring reality" card.

All because we currently lack shared ideas and words to express an opinion beyond "AI yes or no?"

the one by Mark sounds frustrated to say the least