I think these things are amazing, but I don’t think they’re comprehensively intelligent nor do I think we can easily reproduce this spark in other domains of intelligence.

When we can, we will be creating something superhuman in the truest sense. What we have now isn’t that at all. I think it appears magical because we’re so enthralled by language. It’s a major interface into our world and we’re extremely stimulated by it. It conveys so much meaning to us with so little. In fact, when it conveys too little meaning we begin to search for it and fill in the gaps! Our brains are extremely eager to engage with language.

I’m excited about this stuff, but what the models are doing isn’t as incredible as all of that seems.