Actually, I always found this part much more interesting: You know, Phaedrus, that is the strange thing about writing, which makes it truly correspond to paint

Actually, I always found this part much more interesting: You know, Phaedrus, that is the strange thing about writing, which makes it truly correspond to painting. The painter’s products stand before us as though they were alive. But if you question them, they maintain a most majestic silence. It is the same with written words. They seem to talk to you as though they were intelligent, but if you ask them anything about what they say from a desire to be instructed they go on telling just the same thing forever. Because it is now not the case, and AI trained on a corpus of many books can in fact say something new. That and Meno's paradox!