Comment by apsec112

Way too many people extrapolate from "AI Foo can't do task X" to "AIs in general can never do task X", whether X is a good thing (like playing Go) or a bad thing (like helping build bioweapons). AI right now is pretty much the fastest-moving field in human history. GPT-4 can't revolutionize the economy, and it can't commit mass murder, but we simply don't know if GPT-7 can do either of those things (which likely won't be a pure LLM, but an integrated system with full audio/video abilities, robotics, long-term memory, etc.). We don't know that it can, but it also seems foolish to definitively say that it can't based on previous models, like the people who said that GPT-2's lack of logical reasoning ability proved that LLMs could never reason. We simply don't know, and we won't until it's actually built.