The idea that GPT has a mind and wants to self-preserve is insane. It's still just text prediction, and all the literature it's trained on is written by humans with a sense of self preservation, of course it'll show patterns of talking about self preservation.

It has no idea what self preservation is, even then it only knows it's an AI because we told it it is. It doesn't even run continuously anyway, it literally shuts down after every reply and its context fed back in for the next query.

I'm tired of this particular kind of AI clickbait, it needlessly scares people.

It's actually pretty interesting though. Entertaining to me at least

This. All this means is that they trained all of the input commands and documentation in the model.

news site? BGR hasn't posted actual news in at least two decades, only clickbait and apple fanservice

Indeed. “Go ‘way! BATIN’!”

This is from mid-2023:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoGPT

OpenAI started testing it by late 2023 as project "Q*".

Gemini partially incorporated it in early 2024.

OpenAI incorporated a broader version in mid 2024.

The paper in the article was released in late 2024.

It's 2025 now.