To quote the generally incredible Scott Aaronson with a somewhat more optimistic perspective: Judged against where AI was 20-25 years ago, when I was a student

To quote the generally incredible Scott Aaronson with a somewhat more optimistic perspective: Judged against where AI was 20-25 years ago, when I was a student, a dog is now holding meaningful conversations in English. And people are complaining that the dog isn’t a very eloquent orator, that it often makes grammatical errors and has to start again, that it took heroic effort to train it, and that it’s unclear how much the dog really understands.