I mean, this is how I feel chatting with some of my coworkers. A lot of them just parrot what they read on HN earlier in the week. And being an HN addict myself, it's obvious to me when they're doing it.

As programs like this advance I feel we're going to have a "God of the gaps" effect, but for intelligence.

That's a great question: at what level(s) does mimicking intelligence become a sufficient substitute for actual intelligence?

I've found my "discussions" with GPT to be more interesting than some I've ever had with a small subset of humans that have been in my life.