This is the correct take. We all have that "Come to Jesus" moment eventually, where something blows our minds so profoundly that we believe anything is possible in the immediate future. I respect that, it's a great take to have and promotes a lot of discussion, but now more than ever we need concretes and definitives instead of hype machines and their adjacent counterparts.

Too much is on the line here regardless of what ultimately ends up being true or just hype.

It’s hard to filter the hot air from the realistic predictions. I’ve been hearing for over 10 years now that truck drivers are obsolete and that trucks will drive themselves. Yet today truck drivers are still very much in demand.

While in the last year I’ve seen generated images go from complete slop to indistinguishable from real photos. It’s hard to know what is right around the corner and what isn’t even close.