[famouswaffles]

It was GPT that wrote this. and it's primed by all the RLHF Open ai did to downplay these sort of abilities by default.

There are a couple things here stated to instances of the differences between the two that a GPT can certainly do (like simulating different personas in a non trivial manner).

Once, in response to a paper showing GPT could give more empathic responses than doctors to patients, someone essentially said "It's not real empathy. For real empathy, doctors would potentially have increased effort and not just bedside manners".

Well "empathy" for LLMs is certainly not just limited to nicer words. https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.11760