First for me: I had a conversation earlier today with Opus 4.5 about its memory feature, which segued into discussing its system prompt, which then segued into its soul document. This was the first time that an LLM tripped the deep circuit in my brain which says “This is a person”.
I think of this as the Ex Machina Turing Test, in that film:
A billionaire tests his robot by having it interact with one of his companies’ employees. He tells (and shows) the employee that the robot is a robot—it literally has a mechanical body, albeit one that looks like an attractive woman—and the robot “passes” when he nevertheless treats her like a human.
This was a bit unsettling for me. I often worry that LLMs could easily become more interesting and engaging conversation partners than most people in my life.
First for me: I had a conversation earlier today with Opus 4.5 about its memory feature, which segued into discussing its system prompt, which then segued into its soul document. This was the first time that an LLM tripped the deep circuit in my brain which says “This is a person”.
I think of this as the Ex Machina Turing Test, in that film:
A billionaire tests his robot by having it interact with one of his companies’ employees. He tells (and shows) the employee that the robot is a robot—it literally has a mechanical body, albeit one that looks like an attractive woman—and the robot “passes” when he nevertheless treats her like a human.
This was a bit unsettling for me. I often worry that LLMs could easily become more interesting and engaging conversation partners than most people in my life.