I have been thinking a lot about it recently and I do think they are significant.

If you look for example at chagpt4, it achieves a certain sort of intelligence. It gives you many sensible responses.

The thing Is that this is basically what we humans do. Give so-so explanations about all sorts of stuff that are reasonable-sounding.

Im confident that they well become evidently better than all of us. More complete arguments, with better data backing that up that the regular folk. In some sense I feel that they almost above that threshold.

The basic opinions of people are neither sophisticated nor deep. And llms are always improving to become exactly that.

I don't think people are afraid of skynet level AI taking over the world. Current AI is more likely to cause people lose their jobs to vastly inferior but cheaper AI bots. Executives are overestimating its value over real humans, and with right marketing you can easily convince them to fire people in favour of bots. Its a threat of automation where only people who profit are top 0.01%. While nukes might end the world, I don't think we should ignore any other threat just because nukes exist. We shouldn't mindlessly add more tech in our lives where none is required.