ChatGPT and similar Large Language Model engines are not actually intelligent. They are mindless drones that do data-driven pattern matching. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Today a colleague told me of a long term research plan. His group sins to create AI engines that would be much closer to what we think of as intelligent. They would learn and self correct, and have the ability to develop over time, somewhat analogously to how the mind of a child develops over time.
I was very impressed. I told my colleague, “You know, this may go down in history as the moment when Frankenstein became a documentary.”
I can’t be sure, but I got the feeling that he’s ok with that.