It's not really rapid advancement, a lot of it is smoke and mirrors. A lot of execs are about to learn that the hard way after they fire their entire workforce thinking they're no longer needed. Corporations are marketing language models (Like ChatGPT, which is glorified text suggestions on full autopilot) as being way bigger than they actually are. I thought it would have been obvious after how they hyped up NFTs and Web3.

Now there IS potential for even a language model to become bigger than the sum of its parts, but once capitalists started feeding its garbage outputs straight into their 'make money' machine it's resulted in the reference material for these predictors being garbage as well, any hope of that becoming a reality was dashed. In a socialist future, a successor to ChatGPT would have eventually achieved sapience (no joke, the underlying technology is literally a brain) but because we live in a wasteland of a system, any future attempts are going to result in absolutely useless outputs as garbage data continues to bioaccumulate uncontrollably.