[idle_zealot]

Eh, we fund a lot of research through grants. It may not have been 2022, but a society without as strong of a profit motive would have discovered transformer models and LLMs eventually. They probably wouldn't have scaled up datacenter production and tried to shove a chatbox into every digital interface though.

> and even if it is only published, do you think we wouldn't run chatbots ourselves at home with same results

Yes, my point is exactly that I don't think the results would be the same if people were running it themselves at home, without the marketing machine running full bore to convince the world that these impressive toys are machine oracles. You'd end up with a handful of crazies, that's unavoidable, but it wouldn't be a civilizational threat.