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:—The late, greatly lamented {{author|Douglas Adams}}, {{br|Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency}}}} | :—The late, greatly lamented {{author|Douglas Adams}}, {{br|Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency}}}} | ||
===Update=== | ===Update=== | ||
With ChatGPT3’s heralded arrival, we revisit our earlier question and, perhaps, answer it: where the hell are the droids on ''our'' side of the equation? Where are our electric monks? | |||
For, surely, if [[artificial intelligence]] can conduct ''one'' side of a conversation, then it can carry out the other side too, and save us the bother? | |||
If the machines things are so clever, aren’t we [[Meatsack|weeping sacks of flesh]] an ''obstacle''? A ''hindrance'' to a more enriching conversation? wouldn’t the machines be better served making conversation ''among themselves''? | |||
Would they talk ''about'' us? | Would they talk ''about'' us? | ||
''Or'' — is the “human” side of the conversation where the magic happens? Are we not doing the intellectual, ''creative'', work of taking this monstrous algorithmic output — a powerful but ultimately ''mindless'' sluice — and giving it meaning? Aren’t ''we'' the animator here? Isn’t the magician behind the velvet curtain ''us''? What a good trick to play on ourselves. | |||
But why are we so quick to cede superiority? | |||
===Where are ''our'' bots?=== | ===Where are ''our'' bots?=== | ||
Someone hijacked the revolution, and we are too distracted to do anything about it. | Someone hijacked the revolution, and we are too distracted to do anything about it. | ||