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There Is No Such Thing as Artificial Intelligence

Calling chatbots ‘intelligent’ gets the concept fundamentally wrong.
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Illustration by Simone Altamura.

One man tried to kill a cop with a butcher knife, because OpenAI killed his lover. A 29-year-old mother became violent toward her husband when he suggested that her relationship with ChatGPT was not real. A 41-year-old now-single mom split with her husband after he became consumed with chatbot communication, developing bizarre paranoia and conspiracy theories.

Nathan Beacom writes from Des Moines, Iowa. He is the founder of The Lyceum Movement, a nonprofit dedicated to building better public conversations through exploring first principles, and the author of The Way of Shang-di Substack.

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