The Shifting Benchmark

Critics keep shouting: "It's nothing but pattern-matching!"
"Pure statistics, zero real thinking."

They plant their flag, confident and loud:
"THIS is the ceiling! Can't break through this wall!"

"Logic? Forget it," they laugh with certainty,
then watch it crack problems like it's no big deal.

"Okay fine, but creativity—" they pivot fast,
moving the finish line further back.

Every breakthrough gets the same reception:
denial, then dismissal, then "well obviously."

The goalpost slides across the field,
always just beyond what's already achieved.

Maybe the question isn't what AI can't do—
it's why we keep pretending yesterday's impossible is today's trivial.