It's clear that gpt models are more competent with knowledge work than a significant percentage of humans. This is implicitly threatening, to the extent that it seems people will refuse to even consider the possibility. Dall-e is a better artist than 99% of humans.

We thought we'd have time for the mental tasks as ai encroached on the menial, but it seems to be the reverse.

By every measure Turing himself considered, the Turing test has been passed. It's only the post-gpt-2 peanut gallery that have insisted on moving the goalposts straight into mysticism and magical thinking.

Machines will be better at everything humans can do, and accomplish things we cannot.

We are living in interesting times, different from anything that's come before - we exist in relation to systems that are learning to think like us.