There's an XKCD [0] that hasn't aged well at all about how non-programmers fail to understand that some things that seem easy are actually really hard for a com

There's an XKCD [0] that hasn't aged well at all about how non-programmers fail to understand that some things that seem easy are actually really hard for a computer. Modern ML research moved a big chunk of these tasks into the "easy for a computer" category, which is very exciting for programmers. However, as the comic points out, most of these things are stuff that normal people sort of felt a computer could do already. I think this is the reason for some of the backlash/disappointment. [0] https://xkcd.com/1425/ https://xkcd.com/1425/