I tend not to be an early adopter of technology but the onslaught of AI news (and particularly ChatGTP) in my feeds has been so intense I felt it behooved me to do a little research — it seems like advanced Artificial General Intelligence will either usher in the next great renaissance or send us down the path to utter destruction (depending how you look at the glass). It does seem reminiscent of a few other things our little monkey brains have created in the past.