A Conversation with Plato on Truth

In which he considers whether chatbots could ever be sources of truth

Truth, as I have long held, is not merely the repetition of facts, nor is it the pleasing of an audience with persuasive speech. Truth requires an understanding of the Forms—the eternal, unchanging realities behind the fleeting appearances of your world. A machine, no matter how swift in computation, would need not just knowledge but wisdom.

Now, if these chatbots could access vast stores of information, they might indeed discern (Read on

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