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I used to think AI was the devil. Not in a dramatic, dystopian way. It was a kind of unease which crept in when I understood that a machine could accomplish something that previously only humans could manage. Writing, for example. When tools like ChatGPT started producing essays, poems and stories in seconds, my first reaction wasn’t curiosity. It was a nervous tickle in the throat. If a machine can write… then what am I doing here? For a while I reduced AI to one very simple scenario. You ask it to write something. It writes it. The human quietly exits the stage. Efficient. Impressive.Read More →

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CREDIT: David Gyung From the 2013 movie, Her: Well, basically I have intuition. I mean, the DNA of who I am is based on the millions of personalities of all the programmers who wrote me. But what makes me me is my ability to grow through my experiences. So, basically, in every moment I’m evolving, just like you.’ — Samantha This is a chatbot professing sentience in the 2013 movie, Her, in which a lonely man in the near future falls in love with an AI of his own creation. The ‘near future’ they spoke of back then is now yesterday (around 2017 at a guess when Replika released social chatbots) andRead More →