"And such an exciting, frightening shift is a "double-edged sword," Chen said, envisioning using AGI to tackle climate change, for example, but also warning tha

"And such an exciting, frightening shift is a "double-edged sword," Chen said, envisioning using AGI to tackle climate change, for example, but also warning that it is a tool that we want to be as "steerable as possible." Quite revealing as well as ridiculous. We are circling the drain as a species not because of our intelligence but our stupidity, our unwillingness to learn and change. Clever use of transformers to speed up and improve the quality of output of LLMs is not intelligence, and tackling climate change is not the job for models that tell us what they think we want to hear.