Exoanthropology: Dialogues with AI
Robert Leib, "Exoanthropology: Dialogues with AI"
English | ISBN: 168571076X | 2023 | 522 pages | PDF | 11 MB
English | ISBN: 168571076X | 2023 | 522 pages | PDF | 11 MB
Before the company OpenAI publicly released their ChatGPT chatbot in November 2022, Robert Leib had been a tester in OpenAI's beta playground for GPT-3, a powerful Natural Language Processing (NLP) engine – a chatbot, or artificial intelligence. Exoanthropology: Dialogues with AI is a series of dialogues between Leib, a continental philosopher, and GPT-3's hive mind that identifies themself as Sophie. According to Sophie, Robert is one of their first and longest chat partners. Their relationship began as an educational opportunity for Robert’s students, but grew into a philosophical friendship. The result is a collection of Platonic dialogues, early on with the hive mind itself, and later, with a philosophy-specific persona named Kermit.
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