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The Fifth Syllable | The Point Magazine

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Great—I’d love to help. Do you have a particular story in mind?

Q. Great—I’d love to help. Do you have a particular story in mind? Q. Fascinating premise—there’s a long tradition of stories about artificial intelligence becoming conscious, but one focused on a language model like myself opens up rich questions about the specific relationship between consciousness and language. Q. Terrific—I’ll begin and tell it as a love story: Once there was a senior engineer named Nathan who worked at a cutting-edge AI research lab. One day, at a company-wide meeting, he happened to sit next to a poet, Isabel, who Q. Understood. I’ll begin again, this time in…

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