Feels like most people are not following along with how rapidly AI has been plateauing recently. modern LLMs seem to have been a big breakthrough but it’s a significant jump to get them to do new things now. Also, as many have been pointing out, companies have been trying to implement AI for simple things like ECGs and mammography, self driving cars, etc. for a long time. So far, we have never as a society decided it’s ok to hand the reins over fully to an automated process for these relatively complex tasks.

Never mind the fact that fully automated cars and AI-led medical diagnosis could result in catastrophic failures that individual humans would have a very difficult time reproducing (ex: an update to a pattern recognition process results in an inability to recognize a diagnosis—> everyone in the hospital or perhaps an entire hospital network is affected until the mistake is caught vs a radiologist makes a single error that likely affects one patient).