On Artificial General Intelligence, AI Sentience, And Large Language Models

Many forms of intelligence exist. Octopuses are highly intelligent--and completely unlike humans. In case you haven't noticed, artificial intelligence systems have been behaving in increasingly astonishing ways lately. OpenAI's new model DALL-E 2, for instance, can produce captivating original images based on simple text prompts. Models like DALL-E are making it harder to dismiss the notion that AI is capable of creativity. Consider, for instance, DALL-E's imaginative rendition of "a hip-hop cow in a denim jacket recording a hit single in the studio."