Computers can now produce text that is indistinguishable from (badly) human-produced text. Arguably they always could; it’s less bad now than ever. The “Turing

Computers can now produce text that is indistinguishable from (badly) human-produced text. Arguably they always could; it’s less bad now than ever. The “Turing test”/Chinese Room school of thought would assume that as the text becomes better, it is at some point good evidence of reasoning behind the scenes. I never bought that: there should be “easier” ways (than reasoning) if you just want to produce human-level text output.