besides, this isn't AI. it isnt aware of itself. its just a really good and predictable algorithm that steals from the work of real human beings to pass itself off as 'intelligent'.
A dictinction without a difference, methinks. Can you demonstrate to your own satisfaction that I am a self-aware being, any more intelligent in a way you can detect, than the more sophisticated of current bots? My language, like theirs, is learned from countless samples heard and written, and a handful more made by myself with decreasing rates of error over the years. My knowledge, like theirs, transferred to me for the most part through messages in one or more such language, parsed and stored, practiced for recollection and application. Is my intelligence any more genuine for running on sodium and carbon, than a computer's running on silicon and gold?
That's not to say that these language models we colloquially call AI these days pose a serious threat to our natural cognition, expertise, or skills quite yet. No, my take is a more nuanced one, I should hope. Rather I say the dust in which we'd try and draw a line is rather dry and shallow at this point, and we must not dismiss the possibility that even the very first and weakest gust of wind may well erase it altogether. Else we run the risk to meet that inevitable day wholly unprepared, all by our own denial of just how due it was.
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