When Should You Worry About AGI? When LLMs Start to Display a Sense of Humor

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Google isn't close enough yet to worry me:

The statement "a tapeworm is a python that didn't grow up" is an inaccurate analogy that incorrectly conflates two unrelated types of animals. A python is a vertebrate reptile, while a tapeworm is an invertebrate parasite. 

Scientific and biological differences

Feature	Tapeworm	Python
Type of animal	A parasitic flatworm that lives inside the intestines of a host.	A non-venomous constrictor snake.
Classification	An invertebrate, belonging to the class Cestoda within the phylum Platyhelminthes.	A vertebrate reptile, in the family Pythonidae.
Body structure	Ribon-shaped body is composed of repeating segments, but it has no digestive tract, limbs, or bones. It has a head (scolex) that attaches to the host's intestinal wall.	Long, scaled body with a backbone (spine) and vestigial leg bones.
Reproduction	A tapeworm is hermaphroditic, and each body segment can produce eggs that are passed through the host's feces.	Pythons lay eggs, which the mother protects by coiling around them until they hatch.
Source of nutrients	It absorbs nutrients that the host has already digested directly through its body wall.	It swallows its prey whole and digests it internally.

The origin of the confusion

While the phrase is incorrect, it likely comes from the superficial similarity in their long, worm-like shape. In reality, a python is a much more complex organism with a backbone, muscles, and a complete nervous system—a far cry from a parasitic flatworm.