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It’s been a really wild year in the AI world, and I have some thoughts on this category of technologies and their potential, alongside some heuristics I use when learning and thinking about them.

What we’re talking about here is not artificial general intelligence (AGI): it’s unlikely to become conscious, do anything it wasn’t programmed to do, or go Terminator on us. It’s often convincingly lifelike, but so are a lot of things that aren’t “thinking” in the human sense of the term.There are a...