Is this a game... or is it real? What's the difference?

People are absolutely obsessed and enamored by this new type of Artificial Intelligence (AI) we have. Generative AI. Large Language Models. Whatever you want to call them. When ChatGPT first came out it didn't seem that novel to me. I've played video games that seemingly conversed with me. I've chatted with ELIZA . But when I started playing with ChatGPT it was obvious that it was much better than…