From "ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web" to "What Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have?" in the New Yorker within a couple of months gives a sense of how fast things are changing.
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-...
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-...
It's also nice for a publication to have space for more than one take. Most things are multi-faceted.
As for the HN community bits, fun reference to our very own tptacek.
> It's also nice for a publication to have space for more than one take.
It's true I'm glad they are giving it another shot. By the way, by far the most insightful one I found was https://generative.ink/posts/simulators/ but I will definitely read the 'what kind of mind' article when it's available.
This seems really disingenuous to me given he's a professor of computer science at a respected university. This kind of cynicism, that you might call naive, leads readers to put aside concerns about safety.