Hello, I was hesitant to post this so I asked permission first. If mods feel it shouldn't be here please remove it and I will be fine with that. Essentially it's just me arguing with ChatGPT. I enjoy the format, but I can't trust anything it says obviously. So I would appreciate it if people here would tear down my (and it's) argument if it's wrong. I have no technical background so there is probably a huge hole in the middle of it somewhere. Also, of course, it's potentially just a huge hallucinatory sci-fi story we happily told each other with no basis in reality.
I will explain about V. She is a bot to try... (read 405 more words →)
"I volunteer to be one of those weirdos who panic when everyone else is calm with some hope it could trigger a respectability cascade."
From another weirdo who really did not really want to work up the rigor to post, thank you.
The counterargument generally appears to be that, yes, Sydney was an advancement, but it's an advancement broadly in line with predictions, so there is no real reason to panic. I don't work in CS or AI. I'm a layman. I've been interested in the subject for a long time though and I try to at least keep up with reading at a blog level. Maybe the highest value contribution to the discussion... (read 384 more words →)