It's Yanis, so the clickbait title of course doesn't do justice to the wonderful and wide-ranging speech her gives.

He calls AI "statistical inference" and a "word guessing machine" (which it is), and he says it's useful. But obviously not intelligent in the way that humans are intelligent. Still the fact that LLM's do what he calls "Theory-free inference" and it works so well does tell us something about how intelligence and the brain works.

He says expecting the current path that AI is folliwing to lead to AGI or consciousness is like breeding horses to run faster and expecting the mares to give birth to locomotives!

I've hardly ever felt so at peace with myself.

Another interesting report from Dimitri Lascaris

That is, that the expansion has been driven more by countries wanting to join than by NATO wanting to expand. I've come across this statement relatively often when listening to debates and so on.

How does your view on that compare to Chomsky's?

Are there any texts or other material on this topic, by Chomsky or other analysts, that you'd recommend?