[stefl14]

I disagree with the AI doomers on technical grounds, but there's no need to overreact to the overreaction to LLMs.

Apocalyptic predictions are visible in the myths of every civilisation in the written record. They're probably a Jungian archetype to prevent populations from the potentially entropic consequences of exploring the unknown too quickly. Religious? Sure. Religions have served us well on evolutionary timescales so I'm not sure why Yann is surprised that they've been transposed into forms modern people (including atheists) can suspend disbelief in. I'm not worried about the existential risks of AI myself just yet, but these overreactions are society compute trade-offs between exporation and exploitation in the face of a very new technology. This has been happening since not long after we left the trees. It's what cultural species do.