Language models like these have a lot of characteristics of animals (such as humans) that are missing. And for most of them, I think that's good. Because if yo

Language models like these have a lot of characteristics of animals (such as humans) that are missing. And for most of them, I think that's good. Because if you build a Star Trek computer instead of Data, you can avoid the problem of making digital people into slaves. Because you just don't make digital people. ChatGPT is very close to the Star Trek computer. Especially if you augment it with the ability to evaluate Python on the fly (for doing math etc.) and search the internet. Now obviously it's not 100% there and there is a big issue with the hallucination stuff. But the only reason some believe those are intractable problems is that their belief system doesn't allow for something like AGI. But we should anticipate that over the next day 1-5 years we really will get to the Star Trek computer level of capability. Just don't give the AI full autonomy, a stream of senses, body, emotions, survival instincts, instant adaptability to all new circumstances, etc. etc. and then turn it into a slave. None of that is necessary to be able to act as a general purpose tool or agent. That is readily apparent now.