Your characterization of “dumb people” as somehow being more prone to misinformation is inaccurate and disrespectful. Highly intelligent people are as prone to

Your characterization of “dumb people” as somehow being more prone to misinformation is inaccurate and disrespectful. Highly intelligent people are as prone to irrational thinking, and some research suggests even more prone. Go look at some of the most awful personalities on TV or in history, often they are quite intelligent. If you want to school yourself on just how dumb smart people are I suggest going through the back catalog of the “you are not so smart” podcast. Based on my understanding of the approach behind ChatGPT, it is probably very close to a local maximum in terms of intelligence so we don't have to worry about the fearmongering spread by the "AI safety" people any time soon if AI research continues to follow this paradigm. ChatGPT is extremely poorly understood. People see it as a text completion engine but with the size of the model and the depth it has it is more accurate in my understanding to see it as a pattern combination and completion engine. The fascinating part is that the human brain is exclusively about patterns, combining and completing them, and those patterns are transferred between generations through language (sight or hearing not required). GPT acquires its patterns in a similar way. A GPT approach may therefore in theory be able to capture all the patterns a human mind can. And maybe not, but I get the impression nobody knows. Yet plenty of smart people have no problem making confident statements either way, which ties back to the beginning of this comment and ironically is exactly what GPT is accused of. Is GPT4 at its ceiling of capability, or is it a path to AGI? I don’t know, and I believe nobody can know. After all, nobody truly understands how these models do what they do, not really. The precautionary principle therefore should apply and we should be wary of training these models further.