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Interview with a Chatbot

The full text of our brief interview with OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot.

In March 2023, Philosophy Now’s Rick Lewis conducted this brief interview with OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot. He included the first five questions and answers in his editorial in Philosophy Now Issue 155 (April/May 2023), but there wasn’t enough room there to print the entire interview. We thought you might be interested to read it, to get a better idea of what chatbots currently can and cannot do, so here it is. The chatbot’s answers have not been edited in any way.

Hello there ChatGPT.

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