[throwaway675309]

There is no body of substantial evidence to support the claim that generative pretrained transformers will lead to AGI in the near future.

"Current AI is dangerous" - I see zero evidence to suggest that this is the case for GPT

"AI is getting smarter faster than it is getting safer" - irrelevant because I do not believe that AI is unsafe currently

Therefore your conclusion does not follow.

[FeepingCreature]

What exactly would you consider substantial evidence that transformers lead to AGI, short of AGI itself?

[gordian-mind]

Possibly some explanation of how you go from text completion to any reasonable definition of AGI.

[FeepingCreature]

Okay, what task do you think cannot be phrased as a text completion task?

[8n4vidtmkvmk]

I don't think AGI is going to happen anytime soon, but I think there's some mild danger in GPT at least ruining the internet and eliminating a few jobs. Plus mindf*king a few gullible souls, possibly into doing dumb, dangerous things.

[soiler]

Well there you go. You don't believe that an AI expressing dangerous ideas represents danger, and you don't believe that astronomical increases in AI abilities represent the advent of AGI. The latter opinion is... well, an opinion you're allowed to have. I don't think it makes sense, but I certainly can't prove otherwise. Literally every human on the planet - rather, all of humanity, only has speculation to go on here.

The former opinion is.. not a great take. First, ChatGPT isn't the only one out there. It's Bing's Sydney which is dehumanizing people and threatening them. Those are dangerous ideas. If a human or a certified AGI expressed those ideas, they would be problematic (see: every genocide in history). So for a non-AGI AI to express those ideas is worrying, even if it can't do act on them right now in a way that's directly harmful.