My advice to Sam Altman: read Jacques Derrida

For a long time, the chatbot maker’s chief executive, Sam “Babyface” Altman, had been assiduously talking up the supposed capabilities of his new model. It would, for example, be “a significant step along the path to AGI [artificial general intelligence]” – not to mention “a quantum leap in AI” that “bridges the digital divide, offering personalised and accessible technology solutions for all”. Interacting with it would apparently be “like talking to ... a legitimate PhD level expert in anything, any area you need on demand that can help you with whatever your goals are”. And so on, ad infinitum.