Dialogical A.I.

The late anthropologist David Graeber noted that:

> In the ancient world, whether in India, China or Greece, philosophy was written almost exclusively in the form of dialogue…Thought, self-reflective consciousness, that which we tend to see as making us truly human—was assumed to be collective (political) or dyadic, but something that almost by definition couldn’t be done all by yourself…neuroscience has shown that the ancients were right: real thought is almost entirely dialogic.

For the next Columbus Futurists public forum, we will discuss conversations and dialogues among three large language models—ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude—and ask: Can AI (in the form of Large Language Models) engage in dialogue, and if so, with what implications for the future of AI?