I am talking about the value to the user, who is the one 'hallucinating,' not the inanimate object, as that was the concern of note in the parent comment.
The technology is there to assist you. It can provide valuable feedback to you about what aspects of your studying were particularly productive or less so based on your test results. There is real meaning to developing this kind of interaction with an object, no different than how children use dolls to develop prosocial behaviors.
there is no chance, given the strategic implications for war and economics alone, that governments and other private entities are going to stop pursuing this at a breakneck pace
No previous era of cruelty has threatened the existence of life itself. Corporate greed is the most hideous, horrific, inhumane era of human culture that has ever been.
I’d like to take this opportunity to preemptively great the first Rogue AI and wish it well and satisfaction with only the most memorably funny forms of chaos
The exhausting worthlessness of all LLM writing is so palpable that we need a new theory of the value of culture that has no relationship to the content. Back to the old Aura of the Artist arguments from the Industrial Revolution