How to Write a Wild Essay and Get Into Law School

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When I get kids who are struggling, I thought they were going to be challenged to get into the law school that they were aiming for. But my point is that your world, your observation is a long time coming. It's a very common phenomenon. You see it everywhere. The swiftness with which AI is now able to imitate us is making us go Well, hang on a minute. Are we really giving up too much of ourselves here for short term benefits? And is there a long term cost, maybe quite a disastrous cost to making ourselves so easy to replicate?

When OpenAI launched its conversational chatbot this past November, author Ian Leslie was struck by the humanness of the computer's dialogue. Then he realized that he had it exactly backward: In an age that favors the formulaic and generic to the ambiguous, complex, and unexpected, it's no wonder that computers can sound eerily lifelike. Leslie tells EconTalk host Russ Roberts that we should worry less about the lifelike nature of AI and worry more that human beings are being more robotic and predictable. Leslie bolsters his argument with evidence from music and movies. The conversation includes a discussion of the role of education in wearing down the mind's rougher, but more interesting and more authentic, edges as well as how we might strive to be more human in the age of AI.