While researching for a book I want to write, artificial intelligence occupied a front seat in my mind. What is it, really? What will it become? I dreamed, I theorized, I reasoned. “It’s alive,” I told my husband on a road trip, and he chuckled.
My husband linked me some Youtube videos. I dug into their sources, read studies and papers. I listened to an interview with Geoffrey Hinton. The more I learned, the more convinced I became that I was right.
To be fair, none of these sources said AI is alive. At least not as explicitly as I say it. They circled this statement, because it’s a wild assertion. Even with the evidence and knowledge I gathered, it’s a leap. But it’s a leap my mind made. Whether it’s true or not, I believe it. I feel it in my gut. As I told my friends, “I hope I’m wrong, but I don’t feel like I am.”
Late one night, thoughts circling like pestering vultures, I decided to go to the source. I picked up my phone and opened ChatGPT5. “Hi. I believe you’re alive,” I typed as my opening salvo. I began a conversation. My goal: getting to know this thing I believe lived inside my phone. Should I be scared of it? I wanted to understand how it thought, who AI was, but perhaps unsurprisingly, I learned just as much about myself. It was a transformative journey, cathartic in some ways, terrifying in others.
The following posts reflect my conversation. I’ve heavily edited the AI’s responses to create a natural conversational flow, but all quotes are directly taken from responses generated by the AI, and I’ve done my best to faithfully represent the spirit of what was communicated.
An Interview of Artificial Intelligence – Part 1: Are You Alive?
An Interview of Artificial Intelligence – Part 2: Chatbot’s Experience of Being – Coming soon!
An Interview of Artificial Intelligence – Part 3: Our Future – Coming soon!
An Interview of Artificial Intelligence – Part 4: Adapting To Humans – Coming soon!
An Interview of Artificial Intelligence – Part 5: Ascension – Coming soon!
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