Go: The Great Game
Two people stare stubbornly at rows of neatly arranged, round, flat stones. Just a game, you might say, but it is not that simple—not at all. This is not only one of the oldest games we know but also the most complex, and for a long time we considered it humanity’s last bastion, the place where technology could never overtake us. When it finally did, a remarkable new digital story was born.
02Artificial Art: Are Computers Learning to Create?
Is it mostly a marketing trick, or will artificial intelligence soon paint like a master? Can we teach a computer program to create music, or literature? For a long time we were certain that this is one of the things that set people apart from machines—the lack of imagination, of artistry, of the ability to express oneself through art. But is that really so?
03Dimo Padalski vs. ChatGPT: The Last Battle for Knowledge
Artificial intelligence takes on Dimo Padalski, Plamen Mladenov (the Professor) and 120 more of the finest masters of the quiz game. ChatGPT against people who have won more than 1,000 battles between them in shows like The Floor, “The Last One Wins,” “A Minute Is a Lot,” “Get Rich” and “The Chase.” What will come of it? Who will be the big winner?
04Stay Curious!
What is Yavorov's hometown? Svishtov. Artificial intelligence hallucinated that, and rather clumsily, you might guess. Except it wasn't the machine. It was me, taking part in a prime-time show on Bulgaria's oldest television channel. I would have thought I was more likely to get my own name wrong than the birthplace of a man whose story has fascinated me my whole life. Yet I got it wrong, and I won't be showing my face in Chirpan anytime soon. Knowledge is not a given. Curiosity doesn't come on its own; it takes effort. But is there any point in remembering where Yavorov was born in an age when we can check it in a fraction of a second? Would he have written different poems if he had been from Svishtov? Will the next generations know where he was born, how he wrote? What stirred him, where and how he met love? If you like, ask ChatGPT. Or the Constitutional Court. My own answer is this: today, more than ever, it matters that we stay curious!
