Comment by MrScruff

Obviously AI academics are uniquely challenged by the 'scaling is (nearly) everything' reality, but I feel like a lot of the mixed emotions being expressed towards the latest results are also because we're actually seeing the mystery of self starting to unravel. Like any good mystery, the fun was in the build up and as we move towards a resolution there's a bitter sweet aspect to the slightly mundane reality of it 'merely' being an emergent property of large networks. Of course, any rational person might have expected this given how the one working example came into existence. In general it all looks like a pretty resounding endorsement of the David Chalmers position to me.