At this point I'm convinced we could have sentient humanoid robots living among us, and there would still be a contingent of internet users assuring us that "It's not really intelligent..." (presumably bc something about Searle's Chinese Room argument).

Reminds me of a joke about how the criterion for intelligence is simply whether or not it exists. That is, as soon we build it, it is deemed "not intelligent".

As the limitations of these models continues to recede, it feels like cold comfort to tell artists or programmers not to worry because GPT doesn't have "understanding" or whatever.