The End of the Story

Comment Magazine – November 2023

The Library at the Heart of the AI Boom

An intersections article about OpenAI’s victorian library in the center of its headquarters.

“Whatever the library is trying to recapture, it is merely a simulacrum of the real. The library nestled within OpenAI’s headquarters is recreated, undoubtedly with pristine accuracy, but devoid of its time and place, and therefore, devoid of context. The library is a metaphor for the output ChatGPT produces, a simulacrum of reading and writing.”

Coming soon: Overtreatment and the Frail Elderly

(2024, Cambridge University Press)

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