Large language or multimodal models will not be the end of AI research. There are many researchers working on ways to emulate animals more accurately. The goal

Large language or multimodal models will not be the end of AI research. There are many researchers working on ways to emulate animals more accurately. The goal for many is to create something like digital life. We can hope that ethics like in the article will be "passed on" to digital intelligent life. But I think that artificial animals will be a fatal mistake because they will have similar behavior to humans but solve problems orders of magnitude more effectively due to reasoning speed and communication advantages. They will have artificial real or simulated bodies as well. That's where the article misunderstands some transhumanist ideas. The idea of high bandwidth brain computer interfaces isn't because we don't value humans. It's just because we see the extreme increase in artificial intelligence as inevitable, and that is the only way to continue to have any control or participation in the frontier.