Existential threats tend to drive religious sentiment. To say this revolution is not going to happen is to say humans have hit a hard technological limit, and

Existential threats tend to drive religious sentiment. To say this revolution is not going to happen is to say humans have hit a hard technological limit, and I don't see any evidence to support that. If I was less enthused I might make my opinions more philosophical than religious, but I feel overwhelmed by the possibilities of real world changes. This is no longer a philosophical thought experiment, it's happening. We are careering toward surpassing a Turing test for goodness sake. Uncanny valley apex of animation; go look at what cutting edge AI can do in terms of producing lifelike animated avatars, it's so close you have to double take. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-7jbNPQ0TQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-7jbNPQ0TQ CGI artists have been trying to get to this level of realism for as long as the industry has existed. Unlike a religious pamphlet, this god is tangible, it's here, and dismissing it because it sounds too spectacular is putting your head in the sand. AI is so out of this world it is a religious moment for humanity. Civilization has seen people like you sitting comfortably and scoffing at the very idea of an aeroplane being remotely viable, and yet within 50 years of the first powered flight we had international airports.