Two professors at the University of California at San Diego just released a preprint article called "Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test."

We read: "Participants had 5-minute conversations simultaneously with another human participant and one of these systems before judging which conversational partner they thought was human. When prompted to adopt a humanlike persona, GPT-4.5 was judged to be the human 73% of the time: significantly more often than interrogators selected the real human participant."

Got that? When asked which of two conversation partners was the human being, and one of the two was GPT-4.5, participants correctly identified the human being only 27 percent of the time. The other 73 percent of the time, they were fooled by AI.

AI's ability to compose fiction, I might add, is also rapidly improving.

Now for me, when I read a book, particularly a work of fiction, I am not seeking entertainment in the abstract. I very specifically want to experience the creative powers of a fellow human being, so that we might make a connection, albeit anonymously, through art. So I don't want to read an AI novel.

I think of it this way: when I watch men race it is not speed per se that interests me. If it were, I would watch cheetahs racing instead. I am interested in watching members of my own species partake in athletic competition -- competition that is all the more impressive and interesting to me precisely because it involves beings who are fundamentally like me.

My opinions will of course neither accelerate nor delay the continuing advance of this technology, so the best approach is simply: get ready.

As I mentioned yesterday, in the world of online business AI is going to change a lot. But one thing it cannot do is create a community.

Even if they can fool people into thinking they are human beings, large language models like GPT-4.5 are no substitute for actual people with actual experiences. During Covid, nobody would have wanted to chat with a bunch of AI human being imitators. They wanted to interact with flesh-and-blood human beings who were enduring the same madness they were.

I know because my Tom Woods Show Elite was precisely such a community, and it positively boomed during those years.

This is why the kind of online business that will enjoy a competitive advantage in the age of AI is the membership.

AI can do a lot of what you and I can do, but it cannot substitute for a real group of actual people.

Inside a membership, real human beings can get to know each other, offer advice that comes from genuine experience, cheer each other on, and in general help each other along the success path in whatever your niche is.

For this reason, I would be crazy not to urge you to look into memberships and how to run a profitable one.

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Tom Woods