My fellow journalists, I need you to stop talking about the Turing Test; it was never a good metric. Turing was a computer scientist, not a psychologist. ELIZA passed it, and also was a decent Person-centered therapy bot. Some people actually used it that way, even knowing it was a bot.

A) There are many paths to the top of a mountain, and

B) LLMs and other AIs aren't real girls and boys just because we feel they are.