Also, our theoretical understanding of nuclear physics in 1942 directly extended to the plausibility of nuclear weapons. We don’t have a similar understanding of intelligence. We can’t say what the scale and capability limits of LLMs really are; they could develop into something trans-Turing, or the method could hit a wall beyond which it ceases to gain functionality.
So is chatGPT more akin to the experiments performed by Marie Curie and her husband?