The speaker initially doubted the risks associated with advanced AI but changed perspective after the introduction of transformers in 2017. Transformers represent a new AI paradigm where neural networks are powered by massive amounts of data and compute. These systems, like GPT-4, display emergent capabilities such as the ability to explain jokes based on novel combinations of information, even without explicit training on those specific scenarios.

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