A miscellaneous cluster of AI links from today’s Morning News:

• “One way of thinking about a program like ChatGPT is that it’s much better at assessing vibes than it is at reproducing facts.” / Read Max
• See also: A writer asks ChatGPT to control his life, which it then destroys in short order. / Motherboard
• Ted Chiang: Instead of “artificial intelligence,” we should call it “applied statistics,” because it isn’t intelligent at all. / Financial Times
• Watch: ELIZA, a chatbot written in 1966, has a conversation with ChatGPT, triggering a flurry of “as an AI language model” responses. / YouTube
• Adobe’s new AI generative fill tool is fun for memes but bad at art. / Inside My Head, Hyperallergic

‘…you might be a sulker. You’ve probably had to deal with someone else’s sulk, too. But what is sulking, exactly? Why do we do it? And why does it have such a bad reputation?…’ (Aeon Essays)