I use AI a lot and I’ve spent months trying to craft an instructional prompt that would produce even remotely human-like answers and it reliably fails at this every single time. I guess I can imagine how it could fool someone for a while who has never interacted with an LLM before but I honestly don’t have a theory of mind for the individuals who are convinced about it. I’ve just grown so sensitive to the patterns of how it responds that I’m immediately disillusioned by it.

I sure hope we get there one day but we’re not there yet and I honestly haven’t seen a huge amount of improvement over the past few years. I still value it for the ultra-autistic thinking partner that it is but at no point does it give me reason to think there’s much of anything “human” going on the other side.