How Star Trek Ruined Me for AI
“Can you just Google it and read an article written by an actual human who put in the time and effort to study it and write about it?”That was my girlfriend — now ex — speaking through clenched teeth as we lay in our Airbnb in Paris. I had, in the span of an hour, asked ChatGPT about the colonial history of chocolate, the European discovery of coffee, and whether the bugs in “James and the Giant Peach” were always living in the peach. To her, this wasn’t just irritating — it was emblematic of so...
