He writes:

"If I’m trying to understand child development, I ask it to imagine a debate between Jean Piaget and Erik Erikson. What would these two great psychologists say to each other about the problem I’m wrestling with?"

What the actual fuck. Even David Brooks suffers from AI psychosis.

He seriously believes these machines are thinking and could imagine a debate between two dead people. They cannot.

You cannot extrapolate consciousness of dead or living people from the training data or what people wrote about them.

So whatever the AI hallucinates about these people, David Brooks is going to take that as his base to understand child development and is then probably applying it to real children.

You do understand how nuts David Brooks is? Right?

Why would anyone listen to someone about AI who doesn’t understand how the technology works and where its limitations are?

You’d suspect someone teaching at Yale would notice that by himself, but nope. He goes on and on and probably used the same approach to produce this writing.