AI about “Human circle”, reincarnation, favorite food (and secrets).

Nabokov’s Questionnaire, commented and annotated

Merzmensch
Merzazine
Published in
17 min readJul 19, 2020

--

In his letters to his eternal love Véra, Nabokov sent ironical sketches, riddles, games. One of these was “Questionnaire for the immodest and curious”, his version of the famous Proust Questionnaire (which became a popular salon and parlor game of the late 19th century).

It was a list of questions about personality, most of them seemingly without any agenda. Just for getting to know you better. And probably for yourself to sort your thoughts and individual features of life.

After my eye-opening dialogue with AI about God and the Reality, I was inspired to try out something else. Something personal, without any meta-level. GPT-3 is a fantastic intelligent model. It has profound knowledge of practically everything — philosophical essays, world literature, recipes, game walkthroughs. You can generate texts, or you can speak with it.

Does AI have a personality?

Every time you will encounter another “incarnation” of this Noosphere: learning with every your entry it determines its own “personality” (and probably soon I can get rid of quotation marks).

--

--

Merzmensch
Merzazine

Futurist. AI-driven Dadaist. Living in Germany, loving Japan, AI, mysteries, books, and stuff. Writing since 2017 about creative use of AI.