[Sharlin]

People have always been ascribing agency and sapience to things, from fire and flowing water in shamanistic religions, to early automatons that astonished people in the 18th century, to the original rudimentary chatbots, to ChatGPT, to – more or less literally – many other machines that may seem to have a "temperament" at times.

[rixed]

Friendly reminder that "seem to have a temperament", aka "this funny thing looks like something complex is going on under the surface", is the only basis we have to ascribe agency and sapience to any human being, starting from outselves.

[Bluestein]

ChatGPT is the new golem.-

[ben_w]

Robots put the "go" into "golem".

I'd say ChatGPT is more like the eponymous Sorcerer's Apprentice: just smart enough to cause problems.