ChatGPT: A Partner in Unknowing – Dana Karout

Such a thing is compelling not because it offers  answers  in the form of text, but because it makes it possible to play text—all the text, almost—like an instrument.

That outcome could be revelatory! But a huge obstacle stands in the way of achieving it: people, who don’t know what the hell to make of LLMs, ChatGPT, and all the other gene

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Last year, I asked ChatGPT to flip a coin and tell me the result. It replied: “ As an AI language model, I cannot simulate a random coin flip. Randomness is typically generated using external sources of entropy. However, I can generate a pseudorandom “heads” or “tails” outcome for you using a random number generator if that would be helpful.”

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ChatGPT was released while I was in the middle of my final solitary meditation retreat while training at the Monastic Academy. I remember walking on the path back to my room when my partner at the time excitedly shared about its emergence and the way it was taking the world by… Show more