When Machines Think: A Modern Candide on AI, AGI, and Human Meaning
Candide de Copilot In a century where dashboards replace stained glass and algorithms preach sermons, Candide wanders through clouds, Silicon Valley, Davos, and quantum labs, asking naïve yet devastating questions: If machines think for us, what remains for humans? Can optimization cheat death? Can AGI write a constitution for intentions it does not have? This tale, sharpened with irony and polished with paradox, exposes our cult of metrics, our dream of perfect convergence, and our terror of imperfection. […]