I'm gonna put forward the very view that gwern repeatedly argues against: "but... it's not understanding."
So far I see no evidence that this thing or anything else like it has any actual understanding, any model of the world. Indeed it can't as it possesses no sensory apparatus. It's not embodied. It doesn't experience anything.
I'm not sure the OpenAI folks would argue with me, but it seems Gwern asserts that this sort of thing indicates that general AI or even sentient AI is on the doorstep. I don't think it does, and I still maintain as I always have that CS people systematically underestimate and trivialize biology.
So far I see no evidence that this thing or anything else like it has any actual understanding, any model of the world. Indeed it can't as it possesses no sensory apparatus. It's not embodied. It doesn't experience anything.
I'm not sure the OpenAI folks would argue with me, but it seems Gwern asserts that this sort of thing indicates that general AI or even sentient AI is on the doorstep. I don't think it does, and I still maintain as I always have that CS people systematically underestimate and trivialize biology.