Today’s AIs are larger than life. They have shown creativity in cracking complex board games like chess and Go and defeating Grand Masters. They write decent prose and are getting better at it, produce wacky and sometimes amazing art and, more seriously, enable astounding advances in medical research. So is there more to them than numbers and probabilities – something that is heading towards even greater creativity, maybe even consciousness? After all, we humans are made up of inert atoms and molecules, yet we have these qualities. I will explore all of this and take a good hard look at the private lives of today’s astounding Generative AIs.
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