Chatbots can’t think, and increasingly I am wondering whether their makers are capable of thought as well.
In mid-February OpenAI released a document called a model spec laying out how ChatGPT is supposed to “think,” particularly about ethics. A couple of weeks later, people discovered xAI’s Grok suggesting its owner Elon Musk and titular President Donald Trump deserved the death penalty. xAI’s head of engineering had to step in and fix it, substituting a response that it’s “not…
