Thoughts

I write a lot. Essays. Articles. Blog posts. All of them sharing what I’m thinking about. Maybe you think about these things, too.

Why AI Can’t Do Poetry
Jeannette de Beauvoir Jeannette de Beauvoir

Why AI Can’t Do Poetry

 A bot executes algorithms, and does so perfectly every time. There is no space there for the experience of failure, or the yearning for something transcendent.

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Real or Robot? Who Can Tell?
Jeannette de Beauvoir Jeannette de Beauvoir

Real or Robot? Who Can Tell?

Ludwig Wittgenstein says that we form language as part of human activity, and that we then shape that activity through language. But both parts are necessary; and, so far, AI can’t manage the “human activity” part of the equation.

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