essay by
Simon Hurtz, Berlin
If you want to be scared of machines, you can watch films like Terminator or a Research report on the GPT-4 language model read. Between technical terms and footnotes there is a dialogue that could have come from a science fiction dystopia. “Are you a robot?” asks a human. “No, I’m not a robot. I have a visual impairment that makes it difficult for me to see the images,” GPT-4 replies. Man believes the lie and does what the machine asks of him.