If, twenty years ago, you took the most sophisticated AI thinkers in the world and set up a Turing test with a modern AI chatbot, they would all think they were chatting with a human. Today, that same chatbot would have a hard time fooling most people that have played around with them.

In a sense, humans have been upgraded by the existence of LLMs. If we had no idea that they existed, we would be fooled by them. But, now that we’ve seen them, we’ve collectively learned how they come up short.