Hi, this is Bob, and what follows is a dialogue I had with the AI known as Chat GPT4.

It's a kind of companion to a piece I just posted in the non-zero newsletter about the kind of

surprising fact that ChatGPT seems to be able to draw conclusions about what's going on in the minds of people based on what they

say or do. The researchers who have documented this capacity in recent weeks refer to it as a capacity

for theory of mind, but it's basically the same thing I refer to as cognitive empathy, and some

people call perspective taking.

I think you'll agree that in the course of my chat with chat GPT, it evidences some pretty

impressive cognitive empathy. And by the way, if my voice sounds slightly robotic, I don't mean

now, although it may sound robotic now, I mean in the course of this chat with Chat GTPT, that's because it is actually

kind of deep fake of my voice generated from the text of the dialogue by some software.

And Chat GPT's voice was generated using a stock voice from similar software. So anyway, I hope you

like this, and I hope you read the accompanying piece in my

newsletter. And as long as I have your attention, let me say that I hope you will, as they say

in the podcast promotion business, rate and review the non-zero podcast if you like it and want to

support it. Thanks. Human beings are said to have the capacity for theory of mind.

That is, they draw inferences about what's going on inside other people's heads,

about the feelings and beliefs and thoughts and perceptions these people have.

Do you have the capacity for theory of mind?

As an AI language model, I don't possess a true theory of mind in the same way that humans do

because I don't have consciousness or subjective experiences. However, I have been trained on

large amounts of text data that include descriptions of human thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. As a result,

I can understand and generate text that reflects or simulates human perspectives and emotions.

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