[cyberneticist]

Your point about the doomsday AI cultists is nonsense.

The doomsday AI cultists didn't come up with any of these ideas. The Matrix was a hugely popular movie in 1999.

chatGPT doesn't make the person who has believed since 1999 that AI is going to turn us all into Duracell batteries more correct. It is the same basic thought with with paper clips replacing batteries.

[bbor]

Their point is that AI is now suddenly much closer to AGI than any experts predicted it would be. Well other than the “Technological Singularity” guy, who was ludicrously on the money - I think he said 20-30 years from 1993?