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> ... which is my point as well. You can no longer tell if your interlocutor is even human

I don't really think modern chatbots pass the Turing test. It's not that hard to figure it out.

> (NLP wasn't much of a money pit back in the 80s, I know that much. If it was, somebody else must've been getting all the money...)

No, the point is that it's become one now that LLMs make it seem like we finally got the NLP interfaces we've been dreaming about for decades.



I don't really think modern chatbots pass the Turing test. It's not that hard to figure it out.

A lot of people on Reddit didn't figure it out, if you've followed that story ( https://old.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1k8b2hj/meta_... ).

You can file that under the apparently-infinite set of Things That Are Only Going to Get Worse.




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