LOL, exactly. All of the weird AGI/doomer/whatever bullshit we're calling it/ feels like exactly this: people who think they're too smart to fall prey to groupthink and bias confirmation, and yet predictably are falling prey to groupthink and bias confirmation.

A weird cult doing helpful community service doesn't cancel out the harm of them being a cult.

If they want to donate to charity, they can just donate. You don't gotta make a religion out of it.

Yeah, but it turns out the Turing Test isn't all that hard to pass if you pick the right kind of people.

> while LLMs have become so good at "human intelligence" (language) that they can reliably pass the Turing Test

If the LLM overhype has taught me anything, it's the Turing Test is much easier to pass than expected. If you pick the right set of people, anyway.

Turns out a whole lot of people will gladly Clever Hans themselves.

"LLMs are intelligent" / "AGI is coming" is frankly the tech equivalent of chemtrails and jet fuel/steel beams.

I swear, most of the AI "papers" that get posted here are someone screwing around with ChatGPT on ketamine and deciding they're advancing humanity.