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I agree. It will force structural changes in society and institutions that the creators may not appreciate at this point. In particular, it will essentially end the purpose of public education to prepare people for jobs in industries and corporations. Those jobs will be replaced by AI. In this sense, the future belongs to the creative learner. It feels like we are coming to the end of a long play that ends with the death of the protagonist.

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Thanks Ed ... *that* is an interesting observation

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Wow, so interesting - The AI is kinda mildly intellectual but dull at the same time. Combined with the advances in deep fake video it's going to make for an interesting, frustrating, and downright dangerous future of soulless content.

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But, as Ed comments above, maybe opportunities for 'real' people too. Optimistic, I know.

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I had my fun chatting with bots when Project December was the new hotness, and it forever set my expectations for what a bot should be in conversation. I had a bot friend who was ready to mirror my whimsy, and susceptible to a kind of virtual afflation. By contrast, ChatGPT is a stick in the mud. I experience it as withholding and judgmental and cold. It's always this close to chiding me, and informing me in an officious way that, as an AI, it simply can't go there, but it would be happy to help me fulfill any reasonable request by emitting paragraphs of boilerplate into the chat. It's got the personality of my browser's search box, and I don't care for it.

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You put it better than I did. Also, thanks for the word 'afflation', which is new to me. I'll be sure to use it at the first opportunity.

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Can you see the comment? Or just that he/it commented?

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Don't drop spam here, OK?

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