I snorted with genuine joy at this, then felt weird, and sad, and unsure. These are interesting times, and this is a most excellent take. (paraphrased from Barry's post about his expert read of the GPT4 technical 'book') :

"...ineffective at autonomously replicating, acquiring resources, and avoiding being shut down "in the wild”. Ie - it wasn’t very good at self-replicating, earning money, and refusing to shut-down if it managed to “escape” onto the internet. The bad news element of the situation is that we now live in a world where engineers feel the need to test whether an AI can “escape”!!! That’s not a joke by the way - this is what they were actually testing...."

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