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Secrets and Machines: A Conversation with GPT-3
Ethan Plaue, William Morgan, and GPT-3
In line with its showboating tendencies, the AI claims that its secrets are the very secrets of the universe, and that these secrets are still hidden. In other words, even if the AI has “seen it all, heard it all, recorded it all, stored it all, used it all, analyzed it all,” it still cannot understand any of it. Thus, what is revealed is the rather mundane secret that interpretation is required. But how should one interpret the fact that the AI lets the preferred methods of the humanities back into the game?
e-flux Journal
Posted: December 15, 2021
Category
Technology, Surveillance & Privacy, Religion & Spirituality
Subjects
Artificial intelligence