Okay, I just went to ChatGPT and prompted it with: "Please choose a person at random in a New York cemetery, of any age, sex or social class, dead at any date. Be a ghost of that person who I see, as I'm walking though the place at a quiet time when we're alone. We have a conversation where you tell me your greatest triumph, and regret, and secret shame, and a little about your life. This is in play script form. Maybe a page." It responded instantly and I am weeping, it is so sad and sweet. It makes me think of Episode 4 of Black Mirror, and an old Robert Silverberg story about electronic tombstones stuffed with the personalities of the people buried there, and /Our Town/ by Thornton Wilder, of course.
In the future you'll be able to talk with them. Ask them what their greatest triumph was, or regret, or secret worry. You can almost do that now.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I just went to ChatGPT and prompted it with: "Please choose a person at random in a New York cemetery, of any age, sex or social class, dead at any date. Be a ghost of that person who I see, as I'm walking though the place at a quiet time when we're alone. We have a conversation where you tell me your greatest triumph, and regret, and secret shame, and a little about your life. This is in play script form. Maybe a page." It responded instantly and I am weeping, it is so sad and sweet. It makes me think of Episode 4 of Black Mirror, and an old Robert Silverberg story about electronic tombstones stuffed with the personalities of the people buried there, and /Our Town/ by Thornton Wilder, of course.
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