I think the best way to think of current Deep Learning models is that they're more like nervous system organs or brain lobes than fully realized self-entities. 

Think of vision models as really complex eyes that do a lot of processing in the eye itself -- not the brain, but can't do much else, akin to a Mantis Shrimp's eyes. 

Think of language models as sort of Wernicke's area of the brain. Capable of utilizing language, but not actually capable of self-reflection or planning without the rest of the temporal lobe.  

We are probably a decade or two away (at the earliest) from building a sapient entity capable of self-reflection and cognition. Top researchers are only now starting to map out what sort of architecture that might require and the maps are very general with many roadblocks that need to be solved. 

Yann LeCun has a very general idea mapped in a path toward autonomous machine intelligence. 

A decade is nothing. I have socks that are a decade old, lol. The Nintendo Switch is almost a decade old.

Films are just stories, stories are meant quite often as a cautionary and reflective tale for human behavior. Contrary to popular belief they're not just a series of events and CGI explosions, the most impactful films are that because they carry a message for the audience. Film, music, to a lesser extent games are art because it reflects on the human condition and lets us view what it means to be human in different ways. 

Stephen Hawking stated that alien contact would likely not end well for humans, so I'll worry about that when aliens arrive. AI is here and now and developing. 

Your summation there is the whole damn point, the popularity of movies like The Matrix and Terminator in a sense creates a blind spot for a lot of people because they've been taught their whole life "that's just a movie! that can't possibly happen! They're just trying to make money. Ignore that completely, it can't happen".

5 years ago if I said a Spanish Flu like virus would shut down the entire planet, shut down industry, shut down all schools worldwide, shut down travel, shut down major sports leagues, cancel the Olympics, people would be locked inside their homes, there'd be people fighting in grocery store aisles for toilet paper and hand sanitizer, would even 1 single person on this board believe it? I doubt it. They'd say "that sounds like a movie". Now we were lucky COVID was a relatively (I say relatively) mild kind of virus, imagine something like that was more like Ebola and spreading everywhere, it would have devolved into mass chaos. 

Even for me when I learned about the Spanish Flu in school, I looked at that and said "well that's just some wacky crap from farmer-era, pre-technology 1920s, why do we have to learn about this, that could never happen again". Wrong. 

I'm worried hyenas are going to take over the pride land.

A decade being contingent on everything going smoothly in research and there is no new AI winter. 

The fuck is DLSS and what games is it used in?

Deep-Learning Super Sampling, but has been expanded beyond anti-aliasing and likely will evolve into a real-time asset generation engine by the end of this decade. It already does a little of that by generating synthetic frames and reconstructing/denoising raytracing. Nvidia's white papers are about 2-3 years ahead of new DLSS features, so we have a good idea where things are heading there.

Almost every new third party release since 2019 and probably every (or nearly every) Switch 2 title. 

Instead of a team working on ports to weaker hardware, DLSS will use AI to create higher resolution and frame gen will use AI to increase fps....  and pretty much all Switch 2 ports games will use both.  Porting will be easier because it doesn't require the expense of a team of people.  

But it'll royally fuck over the economy. We need to do something to stop AI from replacing so many jobs, it not only hurts economy but it will also lead to a real life Skynet. -_-

Give up gaming and don't buy the switch 2?