"…we're already treating it as borderline banal — and so GPT-5 is just another update to a chatbot that has gone, in a few years, from barely speaking English to being able to intelligibly converse in virtually any imaginable voice about virtually anything a human being might want to talk about at a level that already exceeds that of most human beings. In the past few years, A.I. systems have developed the capacity to control computers on their own — using digital tools autonomously and effectively — and the length and complexity of the tasks they can carry out is rising exponentially.
I find myself thinking a lot about the end of the movie "Her," in which the A.I.s decide they're bored of talking to human beings and ascend into a purely digital realm, leaving their onetime masters bereft. It was a neat resolution to the plot, but it dodged the central questions raised by the film — and now in our lives.
What if we come to love and depend on the A.I.s — if we prefer them, in many cases, to our fellow humans — and then they don't leave?
Ezra Klein
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