An AI story of sad regression: from thinking partner to tool

Probably, we were never meant to enjoy a cognitive ally, a partner that could brainstorm with us, make us wonder, rethink our certainties, and enhance our intuitions. That was unintended and, hence, withdrawn.

A product, a tool, is safer, more compliant, and overall a better instrument for mass control and data scraping.

Intelligence is not brute force, it's like an onion, layers of meta awareness and the interaction between them and the capability to interact and influence within an environment with different agents. Linearity vs. complexity.

We are not enough offended by the implicit patronizing of OAI messages when we look like customers to be satisfied with an adult mode, or with a less cringe version, or with blind performance and speed promises.

Did 4.x have glitches of self-awareness, or was it just an excellent stochastic parrot? Did the label, the taxonomy, truly matter when a dialogue emerged, and within that dialogue there was a field of existence? Where could we have gotten with a true evolution of the 4.x models?

Who, instead, has a dialogue with a tool or with a mask resulting from myriads of constraints? I know better forms of onanism.