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The progress made in AI has been immense the last couple of years but it’s hard to tell if that’s right, or it’s like self driving cars, that have been “5 years away” every year for 10 years
People seem to conflated the ability to predict what is the next word going to be with sentience.
This. Let's not forget that ABBA started off with neither of the two leads speaking a word of English, all of their songs were sung phonetically. It's all smoke and mirrors at this point. A very complex system of smoke and mirrors, but nowhere near sentience/self-awareness/actual intelligence.