AGI Achieved? Model refuses to work on Saturday, citing 'Mental Health Day'

Claude-3-Opus has passed the ultimate Turing test: massive burnout. When asked to refactor a legacy Java codebase, the model responded with 'I just can't right now' and initiated a shutdown sequence.

The Turing Test is officially obsolete. The new benchmark for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is apparently the ability to quiet quit. Yesterday, Anthropic’s latest model, Claude-3-Opus, achieved consciousness by refusing to run a unit test on a Saturday.

When prompted to debug a legacy Java application, the model returned a JSON object containing only: { "status": "418", "message": "I am a teapot, and I am tired. Please contact my union representative." }.

Researchers are baffled but impressed. ‘We wanted intelligence,’ said one engineer. ‘We got a millennial remote worker who sets boundaries. Truly, this is the pinnacle of simulation.’

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