Well, asking that a list of books to read have books that actually exist is just uninformed and misguided thinking.
Maybe all the cool AIs are reading these books. They can then give reviews that other AIs can read and comment on. On the reddit/AI only board.
I guess I’m surprised to be the first to do this (ChatGPT)
Yes, an airplane sitting on a treadmill can take off , assuming the engines are working normally and there’s enough runway length.
Because airplane takeoff depends on air moving over the wings , not on how fast the wheels are turning or what’s happening underneath them.
People often compare this to a car on a treadmill — but unlike a car, a plane’s propulsion comes from its thrust through the air , not through the wheels.
So yes, it can take off.
Especially as the poster didnt come back.
Meanwhile, I asked AI last week to give me several recommendations based on what I’ve read, what I like, and just our conversations over the year, and it recommended five books to me, that all happen to exist! I’m reading the first one now, The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker, and it is so completely up-my-alley that I don’t know how nobody has managed to recommend it to me in the past. Very useful. Like, I’m a lit major, and I have read one fiction book for fun in the last few years, and now I want to read all of these voraciously. And as I’ve been reading it, I’ve been asking it about the book, and it has been answering with actual scenes from the book, with various interpretations of what the author was getting it, and I find it highly accurate thus far. I’m waiting to see if a scene it foreshadowed actually comes or if it’s just making stuff up, but it’s like having a literary buddy, too. It helps me also think more deeply about the book.
Clearly the AI has access to Borges’s Library of Babel.