Comment by Juan Panadero (juan-panadero) on Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down by Eliezer Yudkowsky · 2023-03-31T19:25:18.086Z · LW · GW

I simply presumed that Eliezer was being sarcastic to get clicks, or offering an early April Fool's joke to us.

There's nothing "Terminator" about ChatGPT or GPT-4, it's just a heavily trained, limited-focus, algorithm that "sounds" like a human.  No consciousness, will, intent, being - just lots of code-lines executing on demand.  The only thing about it that is interesting is that it demonstrates the limitations of the Turing Test.

It seems that if you hear something that sounds like a human you think they are one - the Turing Test turns out to be a test of the listener not the speaker.

And for more clarity: 

A).  Try a little focus - climate change will solve the problem for us long before GPT-257 takes over the planet.

B).  And even if you disagree, there is zero chance of Eliezer's hope for a universal agreement on anything by members of our species (where have you been for the last 500 millions years).