The point seems to be that people have been predicting human or super-human intelligence was just around the corner for decades, each time they've been wrong, a

The point seems to be that people have been predicting human or super-human intelligence was just around the corner for decades, each time they've been wrong, and there's not much evidence that this time is any different. Granted, this should be common sense, but judging from a lot that gets written it unfortunately isn't. Current productivity growth is actually somewhat low. But instead of looking at the data, people seem to latch on to anecdotal evidence, posting stories about modern day automats and saying that they're evidence that everyone is going to be replaced by robots soon.