If someone told you 15 years ago what ChatGPT can do today in two seconds, you’d be calling the guys in white garb and nets. 20 years ago, if you went on a hike and watched person after person vaguely wave to you then continue their conversation with some unseen unheard “person”, you’d be convinced everyone was in need of tinfoil hats.
In your lifetime you will have gone from petrol and land lines to AI that you can’t distinguish from humans (first by text, then voice, then in person), completing unnecessary and necessary “human” “work” easily performed better by AI, and endless energy harnessed a couple miles over your head. Why you? Why me? It’s not coincidence, and yet it’s coincidence, only if coincidence is redefined.