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.

@quinn Having failed a Turing Test myself during the Zero1 Art Festival in San Jose in about 2010, I'm not a fan of the Turing Test. Perhaps I'm actually a bot and don't know it. That would make a great Hollywood movie, perhaps written by Margaret Atwood or Philip K. Dick.
@alison I've made friends with a rock that I'm still convinced was magical.