Now everybody's arguing about AI and some people think it's taken on a life of its own this kind of sinister personal character that the machine seems to have and some people think there's nothing in that it's all just gears and diodes, ones and zeros, numbers and code. And I am like that little girl in the gift that people sometimes post where she looks kind of winningly at the camera

and just says, why can't we have both? All right, we're talking here about Allegroggors, which is a word I made up. I really literally am just making up words now and I'm quite proud of this one and

Allegra Gore describes a uniquely modern situation where the allegorical way you have of talking about a machine or a

force of nature or a scientific fact starts to become more real than the materialist explanation of that thing.

So last week my primary example was mother nature.

Everybody talks about mother nature as if they're speaking allegorically.

If you asked your average mother nature respector whether he was talking about an actual

person with thoughts and ideas and desires, probably you would get an answer

something like, no, what are you dumb, I'm using this metaphorical language, but what I really mean

is the ecosystem or the environment.

And yet, this allegorical way of thinking

and talking starts to take over our speech so much

that the allegory becomes more true

and a more accurate description of how we are seeing the world

than the supposedly underlying literal materialist explanation of things.

And so that's the example I gave last week. This week I want to talk

about another allegro gore and that is AI. Artificial intelligence which has obviously been in the news a bunch lately, and we're talking mostly here, I think when we say AI, I think what people jump immediately to is technically the large language model and that's what's behind something like chat

GPT where you type in a question or you give it a PDF and you ask it to analyze some feature of it and it spits out this increasingly

eerily human looking kind of answer about all the different thoughts it supposedly

has or at least all the information it can tell you

and synthesize about this stuff and you know Apple is obviously incorporating this

into its product so is Google you're starting to see it show up in different

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