Despite fewer silly glitches, you now get an executive summary of the world, with all interesting complications removed<\/p>\n
I often find myself thinking of a sentence by the American novelist Nicholson Baker about the size of thoughts: \u201cMost are about three feet tall, with the level of complexity of a lawnmower engine.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sentence comes to mind when I\u2019m presented, casually, with ideas produced by our new emotionless sidekick \u201cgenerative AI\u201d. The most insistent examples of this come at the top of Google searches, which, rather than simply providing \u201creal world\u201d links to that morning\u2019s query \u2013 \u201cWhat time does the pub open?\u201d, say \u2013 offer first a little machine-generated reply that allows you to imagine yourself slickly informed.<\/p>\n
Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite fewer silly glitches, you now get an executive summary of the world, with all interesting complications removed I often find myself thinking of a sentence by the American novelist Nicholson Baker about the size of thoughts: \u201cMost are about three feet tall, with the level of complexity of a lawnmower engine.\u201d The sentence comes … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}