Agreed. I would extend this and say that we are so enamored by the "humanness" that they exhibit that we're collectively losing our minds over them. I think th

Agreed. I would extend this and say that we are so enamored by the "humanness" that they exhibit that we're collectively losing our minds over them. I think this stems from the part of our brain that lights up when an animal (or in this case a machine) exhibits humanlike behaviour. Crows counting out loud, parrots that understand the concept of 0 and chimpanzees that are using stone age tools all give us the same reaction. LLMs have dialled this response up to 11.