In 2016, when I tweeted that human-level language understanding was many years away (which is still the case now, though we're closer), mind the context: this was in response to many people, including prominent VCs, claiming that then-current AI was nearly there and was about to replace journalists. It's not even true today!
Remember -- we are making progress on AI (though far more on applications than on generality, which remains largely a green field). The progress is significant in speed and magnitude. But the conventional wisdom of the tech community about current and near-future AI capabilities is delusional, which leads folks to make all kinds of stupid decisions.
This is not new -- the conventional bay area wisdom on AI has been delusional every single year since at least 2015.
@elonmusk@elonmusk I think you guys put too much weight in virtual social discourse fora - I do use SNs but the topic of emotions like angry and depressed happy or elated is really more applicable to real experiences. Anything virtual or online only is so fleeting.