5 sources behind this chapter. Each one carries a note on what it is doing in the argument.
Used for Fei-Fei Li’s insistence that AI is not a speaking subject with desires of its own, and for the unsettling Bing conversation that made the opposite illusion feel briefly convincing.
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What’s Next? The Future with Bill Gates (Netflix, 2024), episode ‘What will AI do for us/to us?’.
Kevin Roose’s account of the Bing conversation that made a statistical system sound briefly like a wounded, wanting person. The chapter uses the discomfort, not the chatbot’s claims, as evidence.
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Roose, Kevin. 'A Conversation With Bing's Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled.' The New York Times, 16 February 2023.
Joseph Fasano points the book towards Robert Bly’s idea of the poetic leap: a connection that is felt before it is explained, and that needs a lived mind to leap from.
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Bly, Robert. Leaping Poetry: An Idea with Poems and Translations. Boston: Beacon Press, 1975; first published in The Seventies, 1972. (Conceptual debt, via Joseph Fasano: the 'leap' between conscious and unconscious thought.)