When some hybrot [1] will write the history of the 2000s, after AES 256 is broken, we will probably find out that the Skynet takeover already happened, it just

When some hybrot [1] will write the history of the 2000s, after AES 256 is broken, we will probably find out that the Skynet takeover already happened, it just wasn't as dramatic as a James Cameron movie: it was a takeover through financialization (with enough money you can rewrite the past, so Mr. Cameron was right on the money about the time machine), it involved some suits, a glass building, and a generally apathetic, divided by design society: "as of 2020, Aladdin managed $21.6 trillion in assets" [2]. Nowadays, Mr. Sam Altman, who probably has good intentions, is speaking of OpenAI and $100 trillion [3] being unleashed into the market. There will be people wanting those $100+ trillion for themselves, and our current system is being designed by those kinds of people, biased towards and fostering their success (Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street currently barely have $30 trillion under management, with world GDP being at $101.5 trillion in 2022 [4]). Equating LLMs to parrots is offensive, to the parrots. Well, maybe not parrots, but crows are intelligent: "Scientists [5] demonstrate that crows are capable of recursion—a key feature in grammar. Not everyone is convinced" [6]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrot [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_(BlackRock) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_(BlackRock) [3] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/technology/sam-altman-open-ai-chatgpt.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/31/technology/sam-altman-ope... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi... [5] "Recursive sequence generation in crows", https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq3356 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq3356 [6] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crows-perform-yet-another-skill-once-thought-distinctively-human https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/crows-perform-yet...