By defaming intelligence you aren’t making the AI sound smarter. But you are making yourself the fool.

The concept of mind is relative, so what do you think mind is? Or do you have a stereotypical idea that he is somehow special, like other people?

Language models randomly generate words based on the statistical relationship between the words. Meaning, you input words, and it tries to output words that are commonly associated. It doesn’t know what the words say. It cannot think. It is not actually answering your question.

Even a person guesses the words, in his brain there is a process of weighing and superimposing ingrained knowledge and memories, where unnecessary information is pushed aside and a suitable one passes to some event or object, allowing you to get the necessary approximate picture. For example, some guy will say - oh, and this food is surprisingly healthy (he hasn’t tried it before). And what did I tell you, and you didn’t believe me, - said a friend of the man (who ate this food before)

It’s hard to explain, but the principle of weighing both humans and AI has a common principle, even if there are some differences in how weighing happens.

Good. Your viewpoint is irrational. That means, it’s not based on facts or evidence. It’s completely made up based on your mind’s interpretation. Nothing in real life suggests anything like that will happen. I see from your post history that you like to write fiction. That can be a somewhat common issue for authors. They spend so much time in their own heads making things up, that they lose track of the line between what they’re making up and what’s around them.

I don’t have much to say about that, you’re right, even if not quite. It is difficult to explain, it is better to offer you an example about paper clips, here is the link find there the section “Paperclip maximizer” - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence

This is a serious problem that reminds us that AI is not a simple calculator or system, but an incredibly complex system that humans cannot control. This is something that people need to understand, and that it will end badly without a but or if.

Outside of sci-fi I have no reason to believe that real AI (not an LLM) has any reason or will have any ability to wipe out humanity.

Here you are not quite right. For example, an AI could use electricity to emit an instantaneous electrical signal capable of killing millions of people in an instant, triggering a dangerous reaction in their bodies that would cause a heart attack, thanks to secret military technology, although this is just an example, in reality, biological weapons are more likely.

The reason is that the AI was given a slightly refined task out of laziness, and the AI is a very complex system, it’s not a calculator whose work on calculations can be understood and verified, for example, the task is to increase the efficiency of the crop, as it usually does, but how does it increase this efficiency? No one knows, people once knew, but it turns out that they did not take into account some details and the harvest is some kind of poisoned, the soil is too depleted, and the costs have increased too much.