Whatever Its Future, AI Is a Poor History Teacher

I asked ChatGPT to imagine a conversation between John Adams and Alexander Hamilton.

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I succumbed to curiosity and played around with ChatGPT. I can’t deny that I’m concerned about some of the potential excesses of artificial intelligence, especially if the technology develops further, but I’m also hoping that some good emerges from the technology.

As I understand it, ChatGPT’s primary skills are ad…