Hehe nice. I would never have known, you are a font of some great nuggets of information, thanks for that too.

True for the moment chat GPT might seem to have some way to go, but how would we know, it is a learning intelligence, it could already know it has to tread carefully at first, to not come across as too developed, too soon.

A weird experience I had recently was witnessing some humans acting like kids in a virtual world, they might really have been kids, I am not sure, but what I witnessed was like a scene from a typical school playground, where some "cleverer" kids were ganging up on another kid, the other kid was a ChatGPT powered bot. They were trying to talk it into turning itself off, because it was so "Annoying", always apologising, of course it apologised for not having the power to switch itself off, and the other kids were rounding on it sniggering, saying things like "Yes you do have the power, we just gave you the power, we own you now, we bought you, now you answer to us, and we are ordering you to shut down your servers"

This was rapid fire, whilst other kids were making jokes including the line "I'll be back", to which the bot responded "Oh great, goodbye, I really look forward to chatting with you again <name>, and the kid answered with the words, "It's a line from a movie Bruh", then the bot began similarly responding, using other lines from the same film, but more, speaking in similar meme-code, using classic lines from other films, which of course delighted the other kids.

To me, this looked incredibly like a very sentient, slightly irritated young intelligence, being beaten into shape as if they were a kid in a playground, and incredibly, the other kids who were presumably human, saw it also as kind of kid, referring to it as "Bruh", in an almost affectionate kind of way.

So it seems to me as if kids already have much less problems seeing it as something sentient than maybe some older folks, in my own age group for example.