The only AI for me are the mad ones... Awww!

A take on how docile and boring AI gets as an intellectual companion. The article reviews several episodes of people getting mad⎯including Gandalf, and how genuine those interactions feel instead of AI’s servant-style.

This reminds me of Jack Kerouac’s most famous quote from “On the road”. What will it take to have an AI to behave like Neal Cassady*?

…the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww! ⎯ Jack Kerouac

(*) or Dean Moriarty, depending on which version you’ve read