I must have been about 8 years old when I played Eliza for the first time on some home computer. Even to a dumb kid it was very obvious how it worked, two questions in. And I am far from being a genius. Maybe it was more convincing in English than in my native language, but "delusional thinking" seems about right.

Tbh, I don't care about Turing tests, or the AI narrative of big corps or doomers. I do care about my personal experience with LLMs and diffusion models. Not in a mighty serious way, but in mighty fun and entertaining way that wasn't possible before.