Joe Allen

A television, video games, why don't you pull them back?

I mean, the sad reality is that a lot of parents don't feel they have that control.

A lot of parents do, fortunately, but those who don't are seeing their kids either on their own time, like at home, or, you know, when they're out of the home, there's only so much control.

At any rate, it's having direct impacts right now on people's relationships.

They are absolutely... It's kind of a wall, not unlike a video game or a bookworm, except that the difference is...

A book doesn't watch you, right?

And a book doesn't, the conversation you have with a book is all in your head.

It's kind of, you have your own volition.

With the AI, it's advanced enough to hold sustained conversation over the course of, I mean, basically indefinitely, the context window is limited.

But it is such that a person people who began doing this say two years ago three years ago When GPT was still just this this emerging thing.

It's possible that within five years time You'll have tens of millions.

I don't know hundreds of millions of people whose most trusted companion in this world is a bot and

It is now.

I mean, it could flatten any time, but I've always resisted this idea of exponential growth because it's never been clear exactly where the curve, if we've really hit that inflection point.

The time I've spent with people at think tanks who spend every day of their lives

testing these systems to see how far they can get them.

I've seen the data on what they've been able to pull out of these systems from two years ago up till now.

I think it's pretty undeniable that wherever this is going, whether it's truly human level intelligence or superhuman intelligence or something subhuman that people look to as superhuman,

The capabilities are increasing, everything from language comprehension, expression, the ability to recall accurate information, the hallucinations aside, and mathematics, the ability to perform complex mathematical operations that it's not like a regular computer where it's programmed to do it.

It figures out how to do it.