Seriously, please put down the bong and scifi fantasies. That kind of AI may indeed be on the horizon, but for now it's simply not here. GPT-4 and the rest of t

Seriously, please put down the bong and scifi fantasies. That kind of AI may indeed be on the horizon, but for now it's simply not here. GPT-4 and the rest of the most sophisticated AIs in existence today are literally incapable of self-directed or self-interested thought and action. The phrase sounds trite by now, but they really are just extremely turbocharged autocomplete systems with excellent algorithmic processes guiding their analysis of what to say or do. I continue to be amazed by the amount of hyperbole about current AI tech on HN. If any site should have a bit less of it about the subject, it's this site, yet it sometimes feels like a Reddit thread. If anything about current AI is dangerous, it's how its undoubtedly strong capabilities for executing human-directed tasks could be used to execute nefarious human-directed tasks. That and possible job losses.