I Don’t Care if A.I. is So Good We Can’t Tell it’s Not Human. That’s Not The Point.

As A.I. gets better at generating the breadth of human expression, we continue to obsess, squint and stare to find evidence for the lack of a soul. Even as the generated becomes indistinguishable from the real, we try to pick out the “tells”: weird fingers, em dashes — until those tells, too, disappear. This line of argument by the anti-A.I. crowd — that A.I. could never be as “good” as humans —…