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Comment by logicallee

1 day ago

Humanity is taking an interesting technological arc.

Terminator (1984 film) had a scene showing that in a future 2009, humans would use dogs to try to sniff out whether a robot passing for a human is secretly a machine.[1]

In our real world 2026, there are no humanoid machines that can complete basic generic tasks, like carrying a tray across the stage and holding it for 30 seconds.[2] They move slowly and badly (probably from an LLM like neural network doing very few frames per second of correction and analysis), and are nowhere near lifelike.

When they don't need a body to pass for a human, such as typing online, they do a bit better.

We can tell them apart from humans. As you say, they have stylistic quirks. And you mention that they're easy to spot because they come trained with inhuman amounts of trivial knowledge.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/s/0qUCVPYgjt

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/s/t6ZV0yhgEe