The kind of research discussed at Asilomar had a high barrier to entry in terms of both scientific knowledge and access to laboratories and technology to pull o

The kind of research discussed at Asilomar had a high barrier to entry in terms of both scientific knowledge and access to laboratories and technology to pull off. Only scientists could really do it. The GPTs are at the point where anyone with money can buy cloud compute and train one. The methods for doing so are fairly well known. It won't be long before a teenager can train a GPT on commodity cloud VMs.