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Google's powerful AI spotlights a human cognitive glitch: Mistaking fluent speech for fluent thought

  • Written by Kyle Mahowald, Assistant Professor of Linguistics, The University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts
Google's powerful AI spotlights a human cognitive glitch: Mistaking fluent speech for fluent thoughtWords can have a powerful effect on people, even when they're generated by an unthinking machine.iStock via Getty Images

When you read a sentence like this one, your past experience tells you that it’s written by a thinking, feeling human. And, in this case, there is indeed a human typing these words: [Hi, there!] But these days, some...

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