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Klein called Children of Memory the single best piece of fiction he'd read about interacting with an AI, noting its corvid focus and how it felt like a fictional representation of ChatGPT.
Then Tchaikovsky brought out his new book, Children of Memory. And this one is about corvids, about a kind of bird. It is the single best piece of fiction I've read on what it is like the confusion, t...
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Klein called Children of Memory the single best piece of fiction he'd read about interacting with an AI, noting its corvid focus and how it felt like a fictional representation of ChatGPT.
Then Tchaikovsky brought out his new book, Children of Memory. And this one is about corvids, about a kind of bird. It is the single best piece of fiction I've read on what it is like the confusion, the disorientation of interacting with a problemsolving, erudite, brilliant, trained to some degree on humans, but not necessarily sentient AI.
It was a very strange read at this moment. And it made possible an episode I've been wanting to do for months.
The new book Children of Memory is built in part around extremely intelligent corvids which if I was not familiar with the term so it's a family of birds it includes crows and ravens.