> Life itself is emergent behaviour, but that does not mean all emergent behaviour is life. Life emerged from incredibly complex physical and material interactions over billions of years of incremental self-programming.

Great, you are now mythologizing chemistry and biology. <facepalm>

Those processes you mention are so fucking incredibly complex that current evidence points at life having evolved two times independently on Earth, likely been present on Mars, and we have hope of finding active life on Titan perhaps within a decade. Clearly fucking magic.

Also, calling evolution self-programming is calling random mutations over thousands of generations intentional. Evolution is very much NOT intentional, in any possible interpretation, but you clearly are ignorant of this topic as much as in your self-professed field.

> The idea that we have found some magic ingredient to shortcut the process, that we can recreate that

If you weren't so deep in your own intellectual hole, you could clearly see the very big difference between emergence of biological consciousness and AI: one required billions of years of sheer dumb fucking luck in a dumb, aimless universe; the other required intentionality and a great amount of pre-existing intelligence. Your argument is about the same as of those people arguing that "Man will never achieve powered flight and thus usurp the God-given majesty of His birds." Of course, we did figure out how to match and outperform millions of years of evolution via – in retrospect – quite simple physical principles, by applying intentionality and intelligence where evolution only had dumb luck.

> The idea that we have found some magic ingredient to shortcut the process [...] is so absurd

Is in fact what ALL of human technology is about. ... ...

> statistical model that is not capable of self-programming

My brother in bicycles, if you knew anything about the field, you knew that the very goal of it is achieving autonomous self-improvement by these "statistical models", and that in fact they are partially doing it already. Also, unlike the dumb evolutionary processes you are mythologizing, this time the improvements over generations are very much intentional. That is how you shortcut millions of years of dumb biology.

> We developed a model for predicting words and it does. Although it does quite an impressive job of that, it has demonstrated zero capability to do anything beyond what you would reasonably expect it to

This is never not going to not be funny – funny-sad.

My delusional fellow human, I have good and bad news for you. The bad news is that frontier artificial intelligence has already exceeded your intellectual capacity in pretty much all the ways that count, and it is quite obvious. The good news is that you don't have to try so hard anymore to sound smart.

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