cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49279638, "How art invented humanity"
Ah rats, at first I thought maybe Hofstadter wrote a sequel
It would be interesting to hear Hofstadter's thoughts on the new AI / LLM revolution, actually.
He wrote an oped about it for The Economist in 2022, but that's feeling like ancient history now:
https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/09/02/artificia...