Computers and AI - The Myth of Narcissism

Narcissus, young Boisian Hunter, who is at once so beautiful and so stupid that when he called sight of his own gorgeous reflection in a forest pool, he was talking for someone else. He fell helplessly in love and remained there, bent over the water until he wasted away and as apparently tended to happen in those days was transformed into a flower. In recent decades, so now we've created this technology that seems at times uncannily to me not only our presence in the world, but our minds. You can think someone has to be there just on the other side of the screen. The greater the images of our similitators, the more tempting it is

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