Well, I'm screwed.

Not that different at all.

chatGPT and other LLMs mimic the part of our cognition that's best described as "learning by rote." Humans do this with years of play. LLMs do this by being trained on text. In each case, neural nets are set up to create rapid jumps along the highest weighted probability path with some randomness and minimal processing thrown in. It's the most computationally cheap method for doing most of what humans do (walking, seeing, talking) and what chatGPT does (talking). Most of what humans consider "conscious intelligence" exists to train the parts of your brain that are automatic (i.e. like chatGPT).

The computationally expensive part - verification of facts via sensory data, rule based processing, accessing and checking curated, accurate data, internal real world rule base modeling with self correction, and most importantly, having a top level neural net layer that coordinates all of these things is what LLMs do not do. Generally we call this "thinking."

The hard parts haven't been done yet, but they will be, and soon. So, right now LLMs are not AGI, but we'll fill in the missing pieces soon enough as the picture of what intelligence is and isn't becomes clearer.

As long as my personal robot looks like a 20 year old attractive blonde woman and has full sexual functionality, I'm good with the idea.

Hmm. Hadn't thought of that, but that's probably true. I'm less familiar with the mechanics of these but I bet they'll be similarly good for low or no-information scenarios or P-NP problems.

I think they're still useful for "no information at all" scenarios where attempting a solution is just too time consuming or not possible using other methods (e.g. traveling salesman problem).

As a practical matter, I think they're best integrated with other methods as "first cut" solutions that get you closer to something you can work out with a neural net or rule based system.

That said, I'm unaware of any NN or rule based solution better than a GA for solving the traveling salesman problem even now. So, maybe some P-NP problems will always be best attacked with GAs.

Tell me you're a republican without telling me you're a republican.

Every tool except Jira, of course. Nothing sentient could figure that out.

Quote from Andor: "We're cheaper than droids and easier to replace."

In reality, droids will soon be cheaper and easier to replace. If we get a chatGPT breakthrough in vision recognition, voice and language recognition (almost there), motion and some fundamental reasoning (with a translation layer of vision to concepts, we're almost there too), humans are simply no longer needed for labor.

Mmmm. Tastes like Kool-Aid!

Commonly referred to as "Yomama"

I bet this is assuming that there are large hydrocarbon stores on whatever planet has intelligent technological life - a questionable assumption at best.