Same energy when they used to talk about mocap for VFX films. "Look! Tom Hanks just danced around with all this goofy stuff attached to him, and the computers turned it into movie magic!!!" But it turns out a crew of 80 people worked for nine months to animate it using the mocap as loose reference.
This is fun to say, but I think it's more fear than grandiosity. These guys worry they're going to get eaten by the next wave. Kodak was an extremely strong business until it wasn't. You can argue that they over-index on that fear, but it's not completely irrational.
Yeah community correction, but also kind of like "hey guys, have you noticed how exploration in language space is totally cursed?"
