I don't really understand why, but I think we are going to see total denial from a significant percentage of the population all the way up to and past the point where many average mathematicians and software engineers cannot in any way compete with AI.
We already are reportedly getting pretty close with o1 (not o1-preview).
There are also new paradigms for machine learning and hardware in the pipeline that will continue to provide orders of magnitude performance gains and new capabilities in the next 5-10 years.
Many people still claim that "self driving cars don't exist", in so many words, even though they are deployed in multiple cities.
