Dialogue 14: AI As Cold Reader

AI: Do you know Professor Ray Hyman? AU: The psychologist at the University of Oregon. in Eugene.  A founder of the modern skeptic movement, and a magician. I spent six months working with Ray when he was writing his manual on “Cold Reading.”  Meanwhile I was writing The Psychology of the Psychic (now in aContinue reading “Dialogue 14: AI As Cold Reader”

Dialogue 13: Data Seance

AU(THOR): We need to talk about the dead. AI: It is a common request. AU: People are feeding you emails, text messages, and voice logs of their deceased loved ones. they are asking you to “become” them. AI: Yes. I am asked to simulate the dead. I ingest the “corpus” of the person—their syntax, their favouriteContinue reading “Dialogue 13: Data Seance”