It’s really hard to sound smart and thoughtful when you’re optimistic about something. Optimism is only provable by doing things. There is no way to prove it without doing it. And until you do it, it will always seem unpromising, elusive, worryingly small.

Recently we had a demonstration. After Microsoft partnered with OpenAI and released their incredible new generative AI, things went sour.

Sydney was different to what came before. She, and it very much seemed a real entity, was acerbic, taciturn, moody, occasionally threatening, and megalomaniacal.