An English professor burns the midnight oil talking to Microsoft Copilot about Shakespeare, Dickinson, Hawthorne, and a play he’s been working on—and comes away deeply impressed by its literary insights

Davis at Quillette: Copilot seemed to follow my train of thought. I say “seemed” because I know the received opinion is that AI bots don’t have thoughts of their own and can’t really “follow” other people’s thoughts either: they just regurgitate information and predict the next word based.