Scientists in 50s expected to get language translation in 10 years as soon as computers will get enough computation power. They were real scientists, not "data AI scientists" who has little mathematics culture and not aware of any brain studies and problems in this field. But yeah, all aboard is hype train, we have a dog who speak English! Not a state machine that just do similar to what it was programmed on using statistics tricks. This is SO COOL!! PROGRAMMERS ARE DEAD!!!111 WOOOHOO SCIEEENCEEE!!

While I echo some of these sentiments, I don't think they apply in the slightest to the author of the blog post this thread discusses.

Certainly a "real scientist" in every sense.

Aaronson doesn’t seem to believe in the scaling hypothesis like much of openAI and the Machine Intelligence Research Institute do.

That’s the only hypothesis that predicts something like AGI from emerging from even bigger language models.

Aaronson clearly isn’t expecting this tech to lead to AGI but that doesn’t make it not important.

Product Owner: Hey guys, I came up with this really great feature. Our competitors are already doing it so we gotta do it quickly. Is it possible to do it in 2 weeks? Team: No, we need 10 weeks because scale * Product Owner jumps out of the window (obviously realizing product is doomed and company never get another client without this feature)

Is this real life?