The Open Letter to "Pause All AI Development"

[LSLGuy]

There’s another current AI “Is it real or is it fakery?” thread

But in that thread someone cites to an article on the topic of the recent open letter that itself is interesting:

Why ChatGPT doesn't understand

To visualize a hostile superhuman AI, don’t imagine a lifeless book-smart thinker dwelling inside the internet and sending ill-intentioned emails. Visualize an entire alien civilization, thinking at millions of times human speeds, initially confined to computers—in a world of creatures that are, from its perspective, very stupid and very slow. A sufficiently intelligent AI won’t stay confined to computers for long. In today’s world you can email DNA strings to laboratories that will produce p…