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Sure, we might have hit a wall in some important sense, where further progress on some kinds of abilities is blocked until we try something totally different. But we might not. Nobody has any clue.

> Today I asked it for the name of a French restaurant that closed in my area a few years ago. The first answer was a Chinese fusion place… all the others were off too.

What's the point of this anecdote? That it's not omniscient? Nobody is should be thinking that it is.

I can ask it how many coins I have in my pocket and I bet you it won't know that either.

It’s like asking a college student 4th grade math questions and then being impressed they knew the answer.

No, it's more like asking a 4th-grader college math questions, and then desperately looking for ways to not be impressed when they get it right.

Today I asked it for the name of a French restaurant that closed in my area a few years ago. The first answer was a Chinese fusion place… all the others were off too.

What would have been impressive is if the model had replied, "WTF, do I look like Google? Look it up there, dumbass."