This chapter covers
- Highlighting the pursuit of artificial general intelligence
- Unpacking the philosophical debate about AI consciousness
- Measuring the environmental effects of LLMs
- Discussing the LLM open source community
We hope that you enjoyed learning about the risks and promises of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and that this book has encouraged you to optimistically and responsibly engage with this ever-evolving field.
This final chapter is an appendix of sorts. It serves as a valuable extension of the book, exploring topics that relate to the main things we’ve talked about in this book. Whereas chapters 1-8 are intended to be immediately practical to people using and developing large language models (LLMs), the topics in this chapter are more exploratory. We dig into utopian and dystopian arguments about artificial general intelligence (AGI), claims of artificial sentience, the challenges in determining the carbon footprint of LLMs, and the momentum around the open source LLM movement.