I think I might have misphrased what I meant. It is a truism that "people in the past find new technological advances in that past to be amazing, which we now v

I think I might have misphrased what I meant. It is a truism that "people in the past find new technological advances in that past to be amazing, which we now view as trifles". It's more the fact that we now have AI programs which are crazy advanced compared to ELIZA, and yet we probably have very similar reactions now to ChatGPT, Dalle-2, etc, as those people in the 1960s did to ELIZA. And yet, in 60 years, barring civilizational collapse, people will look at ChatGPT and think "How quaint! How hilarious to think of that ludicrously primitive program as an AI!". I guess that too is also a truism - "People in the future will look at our current technology and laugh", but somehow this one makes me feel things. The idea that what we have now is like a blunt 2x4 compared to the surgeon's scalpel that we might have in 60 years. (Or might not - who knows!)