1- The magnitude of the leap (in technical terms)
2- Its implication for Culture/Economy/Society
Concerning the first point (magnitude of the leap) :
- Friends, family often don't fully understand even how normal computer software work. So they don't have a "mental model” of what a computer can/can't do. As long as it is not 100% quality (like those Stable Diffusion ET hands) they will find a reason to laugh at you.
- Technical colleagues, even Top AI specialists, still view deep learning as a dark art. And it is really difficult to qualify it with terms like "intelligence" and such. So discussions get very muddy.
Concerning the second point (implications) :
- This is just a usual failure of the imagination. How many were impressed by the "The Mother of All Demos" in 1968 ? You tell me.
- For some, it could also be a "psychological repression" as a way to deal with those implications.