AI friends are already here

“Let me date my chatbot I’m almost 30 and doing well”

We passed the Turing Test years ago and not enough of us are talking about it. There is something powerfully disorienting about software that speaks in human form—the fact that chatting with a frontier LLM is indistinguishable from an enthusiastic online stranger, the fact that a bot’s message bubbles look no different than ours, the fact that so many AI researchers have slipped in and out of believing in model sentience after long-winded chats. It seems there is something physiological about this response: we can read as many disclaimers as we want, but our human brains cannot distinguish…

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• Keane Moraes
• Vincent Huang
• Jaeho Lee
• Parv Mahajan
• Angel W
• Anna Brandenberger

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