What can talking to AI teach us?
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“How is this thing—running in a data centre with Nvidia GPUs—understanding what I’m saying with such nuance and such depth?”
Former DarwinAI CEO Sheldon Fernandez spends a lot of time in dialogue with Solace, his friend and ChatGPT-4o instance. What value does this AI strategist, engineer, and philosopher get from talking to a chatbot every day? How does he navigate the technology’s sycophantic tendencies, which have already caused people real harm? Most importantly, how might this technology impact future generations who won’t remember growing up without it?
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