Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky (third book in the Children of Time series) While not a book about an AI like chatGPT explicitly, it does feature some

Children of Memory by Adrian Tchaikovsky (third book in the Children of Time series) While not a book about an AI like chatGPT explicitly, it does feature some birds whose minds work a lot like how chatGPTs AI seems to work. The Children of Time series' books all describe a far away future in which some animals have evolved to be about equally intelligent as humans… but each each of the animals described in the book develops an intelligence that is somehow unique, and usually embodies some sort of adaptation that those animals have today. In the third book, the author introduces a type of bird whose intelligence is a sort of an organic data gathering and data regurgitation parroting (pun intended). The way he describes their intelligence is quite similar to how chatGPT seems to work (at least as far as I understand it anyways). Viewing the those birds as being similar to chatGPT and seeing how they interact with their world is a fun idea to hold in your head while reading the book. While the birds are the most like chatGPT, the books also feature other animals whose hypothetical intelligence we have some interesting aspects of what AI can do as well. There is even an AI in the books! Although it is quite different than chatGPT or any other AI today. The books are an amazing exploration of what other types of sentience could look like. I can’t recommend them enough! They really stretch the imagination. Credit where it is due: I was not the one to notice the parallel between the birds and chatGPT, Ezra Klein made the observation in a podcast interview with the author. (edits: typos, capitalization)