working in the area of math that led to this tech has been so fucking wild because there's just no way you can trick yourself into believing a lot of linear algebra is going to add up to consciousness unless you have been marinating in the bad brain juices for decades now
It occurs to me that AI will probably kill humanity not because it will become self-aware and destroy us ala SkyNet, but because the LLM is going to give some hapless military person incorrect information and they end up pressing the button that launches the nuclear apocalypse.
