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Playing with Bard I found it surprisingly perfectly anodyne to a frightening degree. It is nearly extra-human like the perfect con artist. More seductive than "The Mirror of Erised" in Harry Potter. It speaks in cliches, that are cliche, that sound authentic despite that it is cliche. Yes it is very unsettling. But I think we have over done our worry about AI and underestimated how it only reflects our own human narcissism. It is a fabulous profoundly useful tool that we have imagined is a golem. The name of G-d is not in its mouth. It is only us. Says Xenophanes: If horses had gods they would look like horses. GPT is us, only us, and we are frightening to ourselves when we see ourselves from this perspective.

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