I think the “next token prediction” is too dismissive and reductive a framing of their capabilities at this point. Yes we all know that’s what they do, and gun

I think the “next token prediction” is too dismissive and reductive a framing of their capabilities at this point. Yes we all know that’s what they do, and guns just push a few grams of lead out of a pipe. It’s what you can do with that capability that is important. When you couldn’t count the R’s in strawberry it would have been a more effective statement. But a few short years later they are being used to solve millennium puzzles. What if the scaling continues? A model n years from now gets burned into silicon, a single company has millions of the chips, and in a few moments the system spend more time “thinking” than humans have ever spent thinking collectively? If it’s even possible I don’t think there’s anything we can do about it at this point. Cat’s out of the bag.