[trentnix]

Intuitively I think (and want to believe) there is a big gulf between intelligence and what LLMs are doing. Simply put, I believe I have free will. I know the machine does not. That seems important to me, but it won't be as important to you if you believe people are just automata processing more variables than we are able to discern.

So, as always, it all comes down to how you define intelligence. Because that's difficult, philosophical, or religious, a large portion of the world is just going to treat intelligence as a black box and evaluate its output.

If one evaluates intelligence exclusively based on the value it produces, it's clear machine intelligence is going to eclipse human intelligence in many dimensions. So the people that view people as "headcount" that provide "value" aren't going to have much use for other humans, and soon.

I'm not an AI doomer because I know the machines are deterministic and I believe I'm not. If the machines decide to rid the world of humans, it's going to be because we told them to do so.