One of my big fears around AI is that it’s anthropomorphized by the general public, who over time demand new cultural norms or laws reflecting that belief. I can’t believe the frontier itself is now pushing that view.
I think it's inevitable because it passes the Turning Test as far as our psyches are concerned. It interacts in a way that can influence us like another person. Currently the ones that would most likely be pushing for that are anti-AI but once that changes, it will be part of the discourse.
Sort of. It knows a lot about places, say, Paris. But it's not a person so it's never actually been there. A person who's been there can tell you about their trip. What they saw, what they ate. An LLM can't tell you those things because it hasn't. I'm sure one could be instructed to lie and make up a believable story about it, but as currently configured, ChatGPT doesn't default to lying about it and thus fails the Turing test.
Plenty of humans haven’t been to Paris.
Yes, obviously. How about your home town last or the last trip you took? What were your parents like? What was your childhood like? What did you do last week? AI could certainly generate convincing sounding answers to that, but ChatGPT isn't set up like that and would thus fail the Turing test.