Agreed. This kind of debate is about as pointless as declaring self-driving cars are coming out in 5 years. The tech is way too far behind right now, and it's not useful to even talk about it until 50 years from now.

For fuck's sake, just because a chatbot can pretend it's sentient doesn't mean it actually is sentient.

Some large tech companies didn’t want to compete with open source, he added.

Here. Here's the real lead. Google has been scared of AI open source because they can't profit off of freely available tools. Now, they want to change the narrative, so that the government steps in regulates their competition. Of course, their highly-paid lobbyists will by right there to write plenty of loopholes and exceptions to make sure only the closed-source corpos come out on top.

Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt. Oldest fucking trick in the book.