This debate feels awfully academic in the face of AI girlfriends and AI nannies. The next generation of humans are going to grow up believing these personified

This debate feels awfully academic in the face of AI girlfriends and AI nannies. The next generation of humans are going to grow up believing these personified machines know and understand things because of the experiences they have with them and academic papers won't convince them otherwise. I feel like there's some latent need for human exceptionalism among those who want to downplay an LLM's potential for understanding, but none of us hold up to scrutiny when quantized to our bits.