I would also gamble 200:1 odds for up to $5000. I have a strong conviction that all UFOs are prosaic in nature and have held this conviction for longer than a decade at this point.
Leo Gao thinks it might be possible to ride language models all the way to AGI (or something reasonably close):
https://bmk.sh/2021/06/02/Thoughts-on-the-Alignment-Implications-of-Scaling-Language-Models/
2Quintin Pope
I don't think that's likely. Rates of increase for model size are slowing. Also, the scaling power-laws for performance and parameter count we've seen so far suggest future progress is likely ~linear and fairly slow.
I would also gamble 200:1 odds for up to $5000. I have a strong conviction that all UFOs are prosaic in nature and have held this conviction for longer than a decade at this point.