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The Turing test can be considered well and truly passed at this point, partially because it has always said more about the human taking the test than it did about the machine. As for the Chinese Room, it was never anything but a pointless exercise in question-begging. If anyone ever considered it relevant, the advent of LLMs should have immediately convinced them otherwise. Searle knew nothing about embedding vectors, never mind attention.

Great points otherwise, though. A strong focus on identifying, understanding, and solving customer problems is, in modern parlance, all you need.




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