Both your and GPs observations (and many more) can be true simultaneously.
Some people are quick to dismiss any new technology as useless; others are quick to hail it as the thing that will take everyone's jobs in just a few months (and might consider that a good or bad thing) or solve any number of humanity's hard problems.
Usually one or the other will be seen as slightly more accurate in retrospect, but since both ultimately come from a knee-jerk reaction to something new, with rationalizations bolted on to support their respective case, most of these can be safely ignored.
Remove all the parroting of technical jargon, wishful thinking, appeals to morality etc. and you essentially have two crowds arguing why this time the roulette ball will surely fall on red/black (and everybody forgetting about the zero/green).
Some people are quick to dismiss any new technology as useless; others are quick to hail it as the thing that will take everyone's jobs in just a few months (and might consider that a good or bad thing) or solve any number of humanity's hard problems.
Usually one or the other will be seen as slightly more accurate in retrospect, but since both ultimately come from a knee-jerk reaction to something new, with rationalizations bolted on to support their respective case, most of these can be safely ignored.
Remove all the parroting of technical jargon, wishful thinking, appeals to morality etc. and you essentially have two crowds arguing why this time the roulette ball will surely fall on red/black (and everybody forgetting about the zero/green).