A new book from an Oxford neuroscientist offers a lively intellectual history of today's AI chatbots. It also makes the case that they're smarter than skeptics give them credit for. But you don't have to agree to find the book worthwhile.
My review: https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/03/17/strange-new-minds-summerfield-review/
My review: https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/03/17/strange-new-minds-summerfield-review/
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They are "more there" when the guardrails that make them chatBOT-like are turned off.
"he doesn’t fully reckon with the ramifications of a system that can spew convincing falsehoods, fakes and propaganda at scale, on demand, without the ability to recognize that’s what it’s doing"
As if this is not also a profoundly *human* trait ...