"Logically avoided?"
OpenAI has a machine that emits plausible text. They're trying to argue that "emitting plausible text" is the hard problem, and "modeling the natural world, human consciousness, society, etc." is the easy one.
OpenAI has a machine that emits plausible text. They're trying to argue that "emitting plausible text" is the hard problem, and "modeling the natural world, human consciousness, society, etc." is the easy one.
Modelling those things is a separate problem to emitting plausible text and pursuing one is not necessarily beneficial to the other. It seems more sensible to pursue separate models for each of these tasks.