The following excerpts are by Tyler Cowen from Eric Topol’s podcast.

The AI is your smartest reader. It’s your most sympathetic reader. It will remember what you tell it. So I think humans should sit down and ask, what does the AI need to know? And also, what is it that I know that’s not on the historical record anywhere? That’s not just repetition if I put it down, say on the internet. So there’s no point in writing repetitions anymore because the AI already knows those things. So the value of what you’d call broadly, memoir, biography, anecdote, you could say secrets. It’s now much higher. 

As a longtime blogger that last line really resonates for me. And I can’t wait for ChatGPT (or some descendent) to “read and remember” all of my blog posts… where you’ll find a lot of posts about books and reading. So this next bit plunked my magic twanger as well.

I’ve become fussier about my reading. So I’ll pick up a book and start and then start asking [ChatGPT] o3 or other models questions about the book. So it’s like I get a customized version of the book I want, but I’m also reading somewhat more fiction. Now, AI might in time become very good at fiction, but we’re not there now. So fiction is more special. It’s becoming more human, and I should read more of it, and I’m doing that.