Plato mourned the invention of the alphabet, worried that the use of text would threaten traditional memory-based arts of rhetoric.
In his "Dialogues,” arguing through the voice of Thamus, the Egyptian king of the gods, Plato claimed the use of this more modern technology would create "forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories,” that it would impart "not truth but only the semblance of truth” and that those who adopt it would "appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing,” with "the show of wisdom without the reality.”
If Plato were alive today, would he say similar things about ChatGPT?
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