What Douglas Hofstadter thinks about AI and human skill

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Cognitive scientist, born in 1945, whose Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979) explored self-reference and "strange loops" as a key to minds and to artificial intelligence.

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1. 8 Jul 2023

   Our readingA chatbot's voice should not replace a thinking human voice where truth matters

   chat interfaces

   Their wordsto me it makes no sense whatsoever to let the artificial voice of a chatbot, chatting randomly away at dazzling speed, replace the far slower but authentic and reflective voice of a thinking, living human being.

   ↗Gödel, Escher, Bach, and AI (The Atlantic)theatlantic.com 4th of 5 in this piece