The video wasn't talking about GPT per se. The world of AI is much bigger than language models - you have to look at the big picture. Language models by themsel

The video wasn't talking about GPT per se. The world of AI is much bigger than language models - you have to look at the big picture. Language models by themselves give a convincing simulacrum of a thinking, planning agent - what happens when you set out to make such an agent? Where is this going? Language models show that with enough data, and the right architecture, there is no reason to rule out any particular capability. In theory, AIs can manipulate, deceive, reproduce, self-improve. In practice they can already do so with the most minimal of human nudging. I too am wary of "something must be done" panic legislation that may inadvertently cause the "bad future" it seeks to prevent. But it is foolish to pretend that the danger is not real.