New Delhi, Nov. 29 -- Google's Gemini 3 is not waiting around for humans to figure out how it fits into their lives and what their equation with it should be. It's going right ahead and making a play for behaving as human as it can-ready or not. We should be wary of how convincingly it does this, not because it's inherently harmful, but because its fluency can blur lines and confuse us.

It was as long as sixty years ago that ELIZA, the first computer software, famously tried to simulate a human-like conversation, acting as a Rogerian psychotherapist. It stunned the world. That was then. Now, the role has been taken over by chat assistants who don't have to live in computers that fill a room, but in your pocket. The advances involved are ...