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> LLMs have proved amazing facile with language.

If you took a transcript of a conversation with Claude 3.6 Sonnet, and sent it back in time even five years ago (just before the GPT-3 paper was published), nobody would believe it was real. They would say that it was fake, or that it was witchcraft. And whoever believed it was real would instantly acknowledge that the Turing test had been passed. This refusal to update beliefs on new evidence is very tiresome.

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Similarly if you could let a person from five years ago have a spoken conversation with ChatGPT Advanced Voice mode or Gemini Live. For me five years ago, the only giveaways that the voice on the other end might not be human would have been its abilities to answer questions instantaneously about almost any subject and to speak many different languages.

The NotebookLM “podcasters” would have been equally convincing to me.

The whole point of the post is that many have updated their beliefs too much.

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