I would have said the same thing in 2015 about AI being able to do college essays, make photo-realistic images or write a compute program, but here we are. Technological progress really does appear to be exponential, at least in the realm of computers. We also have emergent properties of AI that weren't expected by the developers. A lifetime of progress may now only take 5 years. There's already AI that will do scientific research and write a paper which is apparently fairly accurate. Won't be that long until it can do it properly and then it very much will be more dangerous than a nuclear weapon.
I would have said the same thing in 2015 about AI being able to do college essays, make photo-realistic images or write a compute program, but here we are. Technological progress really does appear to be exponential, at least in the realm of computers. We also have emergent properties of AI that weren't expected by the developers. A lifetime of progress may now only take 5 years. There's already AI that will do scientific research and write a paper which is apparently fairly accurate. Won't be that long until it can do it properly and then it very much will be more dangerous than a nuclear weapon.