On: Do Large Language Models learn world models or just surface statistics?

[Retric]

Ecosystems are experiencing the one of the largest mass extinction due to those capabilities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

Saying it’s only going to be as bad as the industrial revolution isn’t a pleasant prediction.

[jacquesm → Retric]

It isn't and it could well be much, much worse depending on some of the initial conditions, plenty of which we haven't really charted to the point that we can infer outcomes from inputs. It's chaos theory all over but this time with an unpredictable black box in the middle.