Open Source: Dino Buzzati’s The Singularity
What makes literature indispensable is its strange ability not only to invite and sustain but eventually to thwart and escape our ‘hermeneutic procedures’, to flaunt its secrets and to keep them. The moral to extract here is this: thanks to GPT-4, we can no longer afford to forget about literature; thanks to that fact that machines can now generate and implement knowledge so effectively that knowledge itself is at risk of becoming banal, we cannot risk dispensing with our tried-and-tested pathways onto the unknowable.
Oscar Mardell reviews The Singularity by Dino Buzzati.