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The Age of Chat
“You silly humans,” the chatbot seems to be saying. “Using the greatest technology of our generation to create funny memes. But okay, I’ll play along.” These moments convey a sense of energy that makes it hard for me to believe I’m not chatting with a sentient being. Perhaps having a strong voice simply means writing in a way that makes you seem al
... See moreLaura Hartenberger • What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing
Social media basically brought us to something like an oral culture:
- We're not illiterate in the sense that we can't read, our writing approximates our speaking
- Our writing isn't as complex because it doesn't function like text used to
- We both archive everything and trust our collective memory -- everything is saved, bookmarked, etc. but nev... See more
“Who cares if chatbots are sentient or not—more important is whether they are so fluent, so seductive, and so inspiring of empathy that we can’t help but start to care for them.”
even if we were not dabbling in virtual seances, the prospect of a reasonably capable conversational agent raises other questions worth considering. For example, might it p... See more
even if we were not dabbling in virtual seances, the prospect of a reasonably capable conversational agent raises other questions worth considering. For example, might it p... See more
Substack • LaMDA, Lemoine, and the Allures of Digital Re-enchantment
On the “Dead Internet Theory” — there’s a Quora bot that is using GPT to answer popular questions. It pulled a face from the site “This Person Does Not Exist,” and it has 1 million views in the last month. The weird thing, there aren’t even any financial incentives to doing this, there’s just a certain fetish to automate because we can. Eventually,
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