I'm going to keep beating this dead horse, but if you were a philosophy nerd in the 80s, 90s, 00s etc you may know that debates RAGED over whether computers could ever, even in principle do things that are now being accomplished on a weekly basis.
And as you say, the goalposts keep getting moved. It used to be claimed that computers could never play chess at the highest levels because that required "insight". And whatever a computer could do, it could never to that extra special thing, that could only be described in magical undefined terms.
I just hope there's a moment of reckoning for decades upon decades of arguments, deemed academically respectable, that insisted that days like these would never come.
And as you say, the goalposts keep getting moved. It used to be claimed that computers could never play chess at the highest levels because that required "insight". And whatever a computer could do, it could never to that extra special thing, that could only be described in magical undefined terms.
I just hope there's a moment of reckoning for decades upon decades of arguments, deemed academically respectable, that insisted that days like these would never come.