Philosophic with ChatGPT: Part I

Part 1 of my first interview with ChatGPT.4, discussing itself as well as ourselves. And, of course, aliens.

I’ve interviewed a number of informed minds on all kinds of topics but never have I interviewed something that has instantaneous access to the wealth of information that ChatGPT has.

Given it’s potential to pull from so much data, it prompts an infinite spring of irresistible questions, a fraction of which are espoused below.

Granted, the language model is far from perfect, and not as temporally or culturally objective as would be preferred.

But this is just the start.

While many people seem subliminally threatened by this over-hyped language model, others remain skeptical or dismissive, and more yet seem cautiously curious. This series is for those of us in the third group, who can’t seem to look away.

What I find most interesting is that, in interacting with this self-proclaimed tool (something I’d describe first as a search engine and only a distant second as a kind of artificial intelligence), we can use it as a way to understand ourselves.

Because until it becomes more self-cognizant (if ever), our interactions shouldn’t be regarded as a discussion with…