I’ve been working on these issues since the 80s. And until I saw the emergent be

I’ve been working on these issues since the 80s. And until I saw the emergent behavior in GPT-4, I would have agreed with you. I’d thought we’d need a world model, a prediction (autoassociation) manifold, an evaluative model (preference, ethics) and a language model. But I’m a little concerned that I might have been wrong, and that it’s possible to construct all of them from the language model – at least incrementally.
I dislike this evolutionary pathway because the systems aren’t discrete and controllable(auditable). So we aren’t overcoming the problem of the human mind (and correcting it).
And so I’m not disagreeing. And while I’m skeptical as you are. I’m back to reserving judgment.