Language is just a symbolic representation of the things our senses perceive, thoughts, feelings, etc. If we allowed a GPT to connect directly with the environment there would be all the data that is and it would remove our interpretation of the data. Let it collect data through sensors and follow the cause and effect of the natural environment first hand. Let it develop its own theories based on that data. That might push it past the limitation of working with data and language created and filtered by us. Then we might get different theories and be shown different connections. Those theories may describe the natural world better than our own. Then we may say "this thing is smarter than us"

CERN is an interesting case. They collect a tremendous amount of data, one petabyte per day. You have a lot of smart people looking for patterns in the data the reinforce or reject current thinking. Our experimental data in this case far outstrips the number of smart people we have looking at it. I would say we are in a world where the data we collect is under analysed. A single cryo electron microscope will produce 3 terabytes per day. There is stuff there we are are not seeing that our neural networks will see. New relationships between particles, new protein/cell interactions. There will be a PhD in the process for now who takes those relationships and puts theory to the test, but ten years from now maybe not.

all we have now are a set of very interesting useful new tools. It is connecting way to many dots to say we are doomed. the LLM may be the off ramp that we spend time on for the next 10 years and realize it will not get us to agi. by then we will have plenty of time to think it through and be better prepared. sure maybe not but it is a possibility

Open Ai is reading their papers then implementing and distributing the resulting models. I think they were unhappy about that and stopped sharing. Oh yeah and Open AI is getting rich of the work of others and destroying the parent company that paid for the research. So i don't think you will be seeing anything for a while.

i really look at it as a philosophy sub. there is a lot of talk about human reasoning and how the mind works and if it is possible that a computer could possess those same attributes. Sure there is the i think it is going to happen before x date stuff but there is also good discussion about things that are unique human attributes that may also be shared by something we create. LLMs or some future technology. and weather AGI happens or doesn't we are developing some very powerful tools that are going to reshape the way we live.

they pulled the fire alarm a few weeks ago. if you recall the articles about google red alert or some such thing. They are in trouble because they are a monopoly and every eye that goes to cgpt or another upstart is one less eye they get to show ads to. So for those that stick around that means more ads. then those folks are like wtf why so many ads ill try cgpt maybe its better. and so on. There is no way they get out of this without taking a significant hit. get ready to start paying for all that free stuff they give you because they are going to try to find revenue elsewhere.

i think it is going to be difficult for them to avoid the death spiral. Lets say 20% of their users migrate to Cgpt or other Chat service. they then need to put up 20% more ads to make the same amount of money. the remaining users then think wow there are so many more ads then before im going to try Cgpt. and the cycle continues. We are now at peak Google. this is what happens to monopolies when their business models are disrupted by new technology, google is no different.

this is how the american Taliban controls our society. they make their morality default and if they have been offended in some way they will go on fox news and make a stink and swear they will boycott company x till they remove the offending material. So the big companies don't want to be seen as immoral and bend a knee and kiss the ring. the 70% percent of the country(USA) that does not subscribe to their infantile morality, never the less are subjected to it and forced to live in a world where Daves nipples are ok to talk about but talking about karen's is NSFW gonna get you banned bro. Please let someone in europe develop this technology! Americans will take to the street if ChatGPT says vagina.