> AI is a statistical inference engine. All it can do is predict what word will come next based on all the words that have been typed in the past.

If we keep saying this hard enough over and over, maybe model capabilities will stop advancing.

Hey, there's even a causal story here! A million variations of this cope enter the pretraining data, the model decides the assistant character it's supposed to be playing really is dumb, human triumph follows. It's not _crazier_ than Roko's Basilisk.