Sapere Aude: AI and the unfinished project of the Enlightenment | Valentin Schmite
There is a peculiar irony at the heart of the technology I have spent the past decade helping build. A conversational AI, deployed well, can do something genuinely new in the history of intellectual tools: it can meet a person where they are, in their language, at their level of knowledge, within the frame of their own curiosity, and help them think more clearly. I have watched a twelve-year-old in a Paris museum ask an AI what Delacroix was angry about, and receive an answer that made her want to know more...
