It is remarkable. When Her was released I was uninterested in seeing it ― despite glowing reviews ― because it seemed implausible that any believable, conversat

It is remarkable. When Her was released I was uninterested in seeing it ― despite glowing reviews ― because it seemed implausible that any believable, conversational AI would arrive in a near future setting. When I saw the trailer it felt to me like someone with little technical knowledge had seen Alexa, Siri, etc and extrapolated a silly future, much as science fiction in the 60s and 70s imagined people of the 2000s donning bubble helmets and casually taking vacations on the moon. And yet here we are today with LLMs (which many don't even see as a route to AGI!) expressing all of this unexpectedly complex behavior.