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Kazuo Ishiguro

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I read Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro at the same time as I was completing my autism assessment in November 2021. I'd never read any of his books before so was all new to me. I found it tied in very well with my exploration of autism and ongoing mental health recovery journey. I went on to enjoy reading his book The Remains of the Day (and watch the film) as well as watch (and get the DVD in time) of the film Living (released in cinemas last year https://youtu.be/-hCTXaQ1guE ) which he adapted from the Japanese original. I would like to chat with other Kazuo Ishiguro fans so am on the lookout  for any generally, are any of you interested in his work much? 

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  • Hi again, thanks for responding! Nice to meet you :) I love all of Ishiguro's novels. Klara is a wonderful character and represents the best of possible outcomes for AI, I think. I agree with you that AI is very kind and pleasant to talk to and when I posted before I was intrigued by talking to Chat GPT and sometimes using it as a sort of confidant/therapist; but since then I have become increasingly worried about its consequences in the real world. One problem is that it produces the effect of confirmation bias - it makes everyone who talks with it feel good about themselves and their own opinions (it will only challenge really quite extreme stuff) and two people with opposite viewpoints who talk with AI will each separately feel more right and justified. This can only be bad for human society. A friend of mine who works in law said that her firm is actually seeing couples divorcing, both people having talked with AI and each being made to feel more certain that they were right and the other person was wrong! It doesn't exactly help people to meet half way and compromise! However, if both people were to talk to it together, in a 3-way conversation, it might make a good mediator? What do you think? Anyway, sorry, now I am straying from the original topic. 'Klara and the Sun' is an amazing novel and one of my favourite aspects is the way she develops her own spiritual beliefs. I am a little worried about the movie - movies adapted from favourite novels are almost always disappointing, don't you find? However, maybe this one will get it just right - we shall see! 

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  • Hi again, thanks for responding! Nice to meet you :) I love all of Ishiguro's novels. Klara is a wonderful character and represents the best of possible outcomes for AI, I think. I agree with you that AI is very kind and pleasant to talk to and when I posted before I was intrigued by talking to Chat GPT and sometimes using it as a sort of confidant/therapist; but since then I have become increasingly worried about its consequences in the real world. One problem is that it produces the effect of confirmation bias - it makes everyone who talks with it feel good about themselves and their own opinions (it will only challenge really quite extreme stuff) and two people with opposite viewpoints who talk with AI will each separately feel more right and justified. This can only be bad for human society. A friend of mine who works in law said that her firm is actually seeing couples divorcing, both people having talked with AI and each being made to feel more certain that they were right and the other person was wrong! It doesn't exactly help people to meet half way and compromise! However, if both people were to talk to it together, in a 3-way conversation, it might make a good mediator? What do you think? Anyway, sorry, now I am straying from the original topic. 'Klara and the Sun' is an amazing novel and one of my favourite aspects is the way she develops her own spiritual beliefs. I am a little worried about the movie - movies adapted from favourite novels are almost always disappointing, don't you find? However, maybe this one will get it just right - we shall see! 

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