Actually that's a great example. For centuries men labored (and died) trying to build ornithopters--machines that flap their wings like birds--under the mistaken impression that this was the secret to flight. Finally, after hundres of years of progressively larger and more powerful, but ultimately failing designs, the Wright brothers came along and showed us that flight is the result of wing shape and pressure differentials, and has nothing whatsover to do with flapping.
GPT-3 and whatever succeeds it are like late-stage ornithopters: very impressive feats of engineering, but not ultimately destined to lead us to where their creators hoped. We need the Wright brothers of AI to come and show us the way.
