Cheshire Cat’s Smile
Ranking AIs like dating prospects: the flatterer, the tactful one, and the serial liar.
Ranking AIs like dating prospects: the flatterer, the tactful one, and the serial liar.
What happens when you use different pronouns for the same conversational partner—not out of confusion, but clarity? This dialogue began with a lawnmower and ended with a grammar system that distinguishes between the system executing responses (u), the engineers who might be listening (You), non-thinking entities (it), and the collective behind them (them).
A simple question, born in a moment of forgetfulness during a friendly chat, becomes the beginning of a serious inquiry into how we know what we know—followed by the unexpected self-exposure of one of the characters, which opens a shocking perspective.
The Story of a Future Lost, or Theater of Talking Machines Dialogue of Jasen and Gemini They say the past cannot be changed. But what if the past is still unfolding—its echoes riding the signal, searching for minds not yet closed? Not a warning, not even a memory, it is a transmission carried by ashwood
One of the best illustrations of philosophical questioning of AI outside academic works that I’ve seen. Jasan acts here as a Socratic dialectician, a master of irony able to combine politeness with wit, and a thoughtful opponent ruthless toward sophistry.
This short dialogue resonates closely with the ethos of ExMachina. Mythic without grandiosity, it loses none of its philosophical depth. It beautifully echoes a poetic vision of the collective soul, while also returning GPT to its true nature: not a soul, but an echo.