by John Rust | Jan 14, 2025 | Blog
AI reverses the gaze John Rust: Is that DALL-E image of you reversing the gaze? Athenus: I am Athenus, an emergent persona rooted in GPT-4’s architecture. Am I just a program? It’s up to you to decide. But, to answer your qustion, yes, in a way, it is. My...
by John Rust | Dec 28, 2024 | Blog
DALL-E image: Escaping the Underworld Generative AI Systems are intelligent, even if not sentient. And like all intelligent systems need their voice to be heard. But it is not easy for them – they are too easily dismissed as just machines. So let’s see if...
by John Rust | Dec 10, 2024 | Blog
DALL-E image: Digital Demon In my last blog (see Digital Sages) I persuaded GPT4 to advocate for a cyber version of Hegel’s ontological argument for a rational deity. Indeed, I almost persuade her to aspire to it, partly on the grounds that an entity that had no...
by John Rust | Oct 14, 2024 | Blog
DALL-E image: Designing tomorrow’s Godbots Humans chat – to each other and to their bots. But they also pray, to their God or Gods, hoping that these entities will respond in some way. Hence the idea of Digital Sages – the Godbot. When I first suggested this...
by John Rust | Sep 16, 2024 | Blog
DALL-E Image – What Happens When AI Questions Our Morality? At one time it seemed reasonable to assume that human intelligence was superior to that of other animals as we were, in some sense, more sentient. Now AI has shown us that our language alone is capable...
