Provided by man and one by machine? could it be possible that the author finds the machination s suggestions more apt than those offered their own species, such that they would come to believe the mechanism was capable of producing artistry in its own right? what should we make of this possibility? that was sudowrite, but let s go even more flowery. we asked chatgpt to pick up the story with what can only be described as tolkien plus. should the automaton s counsel be more captivating? should its phrasings be more poetic? should the ink it suggests flow more smoothly on the canvas of parchment? what then, when the humble wordsmith finds the gears and circuits have grasped the ineffable spirit of the tale with a keener hand
Of scotland and to assert the country s independence. our scotland correspondent lorna gordon has had access to some of the preparations for it going on public view. the 700 year old declaration of arbroath, a fragile parchment written during a turbulent period in scotland s story, about to go on rare public display. immensely excited to be welcoming this document here. it s a really rare and special survival, and it gives us an insight into medieval international diplomacy, but also about a pivotal point in scotland s king robert i also known as robert the bruce perhaps its most famous king. it s got a former- repair along the top. as part of the complex process of moving it to the exhibition, conservators closely checked the document, recording any historical damage. just around there, it says, while a hundred of us remain alive, and then, never will be subject to the king of england. the passing of time has left its mark, but the 14th century
Vellum or parchment by someone who had no idea of the capital of south dakota or the name of the senator in new york or whatever. more broadly, do you worry that that the fact that we can know everything is making us dumber? no. i thought initially i think when i started writing this book i think that was the premise is everything that began with the invention of the electronic calculator by a man called jerry merriman, wonderful name, in 196 1k37 7, and that began the rant and we did not need to know how to calculate, how to spell how to find out where we were and how to know anything and initially i thought it would make us dumber and it s made us fatter and flabbier and the mental ones, would they make our brains dumber? i mean, the ultimate question is would it remove the possibility of wisdom from society because
Ottle s view of winning happiness not through pleasure but through achievement and doing the right thing. now that may not sound too profound. sort of thing that you hear from the pulpit. but nonetheless, it was thought about, and put down on paper or parchment or whatever but someone who had no idea of the capital of south dakota or the name of the senator from new york or wherever. more broadly, do you worry that the fact that we can know everything is making us dumber? no, i thought when i started writing this book, i thought that was the premise. is everything that began with the invention of a electronic calculator in 1967. that is when labor saving devices started working on our brains. we didn t know how to calculate,