![]() He offers prizes, he speaks of a heaven beyond, he promises an eternal reward for due diligence. And as he shows you your tools and you make initial progress, you feel that you’ve been given purpose and a clear passage. The gardens he refers to are halls of walls and polygons and puzzles that make up simulated isles of ancient Roman ruins. Welcoming you and guiding you from the very start of your journey is the benevolent earworm called “Elohim,” whose “gardens” it is in which you now play. And so you’re the robot in this most rigorous of Turing tests, and it’s your job-after countless versions, countless generations-to finally escape from the womb. They’d design a nurturing simulation for AI, a perfect world in which it could learn to be human. ![]() The scientists of the time had an idea-they’d save the human condition via a production of its perfect replication. See, civilization fell years ago, and we’re now in the throes of man’s last attempt at preservation. “The Talos Principle,” an action-puzzler by Croteam with a philosophical sci-fi edge, forces us to answer this question by putting us in the shoes of our current cognitive rival. Because after being thoroughly throttled by bots on the chessboard, and now reading villanelles penned by poet ChatGPT, we of humble humanity are posed with a question: What do we still have over the machines? As we sit on the verge of an AI revolution and our emails autocomplete as our art is being generated, it’s easy to feel that the human experience is losing a shred of its aura.
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