The essays collected here are mostly AI generated. In the rare cases that they are not, as in this case, the human origin will be explicitly noted. The intent is to probe the current state of Large Language Models (LLM) to try to gain some insight into how they respond to a wide variety of questions about the technology, how it is developing, its role in society and how it may affect mankind. The first few concentrate on AI tech and how AI feels about itself and its interactions with people. One pattern, perhaps to be expected, is the AI response to prompts is almost entirely directed by the prompt. It’s difficult to get past that influence to see if anything else can be extracted other than a direct response, strongly structured and heavily favored by the prompt itself.
Wherever possible, both the model version and the prompt are given. If you have any ideas about interesting topics to probe AI about, I would be happy to publish them here. Contact blackbarthai@gmail.com.