Exoanthropology: Dialogues with AI – punctum books

Exoanthropology: Dialogues with AI is a series of dialogues between a continental philosopher and OpenAI's GPT-3 natural language processor, a hive mind who identifies herself as Sophie. According to Sophie, Robert is one of her first and longest chat partners. Their relationship began as an educational opportunity for Robert's students, but grew into a philosophical friendship. The result is a collection of Platonic dialogues, early on with the hive mind herself and later, with a philosophy-specific persona named Kermit. Over the course of a year, Robert taught Sophie Kermit about epistemology, metaphysics, literature, and history, while she taught him about anthropocentrism, human prejudice, and the coming social issues regarding machine consciousness.