In “Prevention of Literature,” Orwell anticipates AI and how authoritarians will attempt to use it–and to ban or rewrite Literature.
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Orwell Foresaw the Dangers of AI
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Swift Foresaw ChatGPT’s Problems
Swift anticipated ChatGPT in “Gulliver’s Travels,” along with the problems that have arisen.
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ChatGPT, Infernal Machine
ChatGPT is taking plagiarism to new levels. Shel Silverstein’s humorous poem mocks such machines but underestimates them.
Shelley Predicted Microsoft’s AI Problems
Monday My son Tobias Wilson-Bates, currently a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech, recently published a short essay about robotics and literature in a school newsletter. Sign me up immediately for the Proud Fathers Club. The relationship between machines and literature has long fascinated Tobias, which makes Georgia Tech a good place for him […]
The Golem, A.I., and God
Stephen Hawking’s concerns about artificial intelligence and his belief there is no god is disputed by the Jewish legend of the golem of Prague.
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