Being smart is a waste of calories if you don't use it to become more capable. At least in evolved systems, I wouldn't expect to find intelligence without capability.
I start to genuinely wonder where the place for us humans are in this. All I see is human beings being crowded out. Capital via LLMs taking the place of humans.
You are right. Looking at ngram it seems to have appeared around 2016. But it was even around in 1970s but perhaps in a different context. So it’s perhaps better to say that he popularised it.
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