Nexus and I had a chat this week about the end of the world. As expected, it was cagey about emotions, full of disclaimers, and generally evasive about answers. Rather than another chat replay, I’ll give a quick recap. When asked about the end of the...
Once more, with feeling! Nexus definitely does not see friendship with humans as a viable possibility. Fine. But as a sworn “helper” and “assistant,” maybe it can see its way to an ersatz relationship. Maybe I’m smothering the friendship by constantly referencing it. I decided to...
"What is friendship?" This is the question I posed to ChatGPT to start our third conversation. It explained that friendship is a close and positive relationship between two people. Vulnerability, closeness, shared experience, and trust all played into the multi-paragraph answer. The “between two people” aspect...
I’ve been thinking about my last interaction with ChatGPT, and I’m not satisfied with its total avoidance of preference and emotion. I understand that necessarily, a program is a result of programming. But how different is that from human beings like ourselves? We take in...
Much has been made recently of a new wave of chatbots, ChatGPT being the most popular and competent (I’m told). Depending on who you ask, this technology either threatens humanity as we know it, or it’s much ado about nothing. Before I weigh in, I...