[pegasus]

They might well be in a couple of years, once they become deeply integrated with symbolic techniques. It's already happening with plugins, chain-of-thought reasoning, self-reflection etc. Soon the illusion will be very convincing and hard to shake off. Yet to me, nothing essential will have changed, and the idea of treating these systems as our equals will remain just as patently absurd as before. I expect this will the physicalist position a much more fraught decision, because it will impose some hard limits on their interaction and use of these technologies on those who subscribe to it.