LLMs prove a very very different path from what most humans for decades assumed artificial intelligence would manifest as.
They're not these rigid, logic/rule bound systems that struggle with human emotions. By all accounts, GPT-4 is as emotionally competent as it is on anything else.
I suppose there's something unsettling about building Super Intelligence in humanity's image.
It’s entirely rule-bound. All it does is draw tokens from a statistical distribution. What people mostly don’t like to contemplate is that they too are entirely rule-bound: Brains do nothing but follow the laws of physics, proceeding from one state to the next on the basis of these rules alone.
They're not these rigid, logic/rule bound systems that struggle with human emotions. By all accounts, GPT-4 is as emotionally competent as it is on anything else.
I suppose there's something unsettling about building Super Intelligence in humanity's image.