>After all, the bot doesn’t actually come up with original thoughts, but rather it remixes the most thoughtful stuff on the Web.
What makes you think a human is any different? I've long believed that humans are not capable of original thought. To truly become creators is beyond us. We just remix previous inputs.
Humans remix things but they also largely use logic - look at what Cyc project does - in order to come up with coherent thoughts and arguments that make sense. They are also open to evaluating what is being told to them, using logic … rather than just continuing with the most “statistically plausible” response, whatever that means.
It is why people who bullshit are considered so low on the intellectual integrity scale. “On Bullshit” is an essay about that.
What makes you think a human is any different? I've long believed that humans are not capable of original thought. To truly become creators is beyond us. We just remix previous inputs.