ChatGPT Goes to Hell and Back
And apparently, I no longer exist
I spent some time this morning with my new pal, ChatGPT. I do not know their gender so I will refer to them as it. I asked it to write a biography of myself, Martin Edic. For context, a Google search on my name generates 1.9 million results and as far as I can see, a lot of them are me.
But according to it, I do not exist. We tried adding more info but I still do not exist. Which makes me wonder where I actually am. And for that matter, where is ChatGPT?
I’m a Buddhist so this got me thinking about the Bardo, that in-between place where we find ourselves after death, while our karmic crap is being calculated. To clarify what Bardo is, I asked ChatGPT to describe it. Here is what it wrote:
ChatGPT, author:
“Bardo is a term used in Tibetan Buddhism to refer to an intermediate state between death and rebirth. The concept of Bardo is based on the belief that after a person dies, their consciousness goes through a series of experiences and states before being reborn in a new body. These experiences and states are known as the Bardos.
There are several different Bardos, including the Bardo of dying, the Bardo of the moment of death, and the Bardo of the clear light. Each of these Bardos is believed to…