I completely agree. And if we can do better than our ancestors this time there is a great prize ahead, probably.

Open to that. And I am also open to awareness being something that emerges from a complex enough neural network with spontaneous world models.

The two aren't mutually exclusive.

My theory is that somebody in Marketing decided it would be a good idea to give it a persona-attribute of "seeking to please the user" and it has backfired spectacularly. Pure speculation... but having spent some time in the marketing tribe... I smell marketing gone wrong.

"Get the user to love Bing" --> idiocy.

The human mind is likely not the universal pinnacle of intelligence and awareness.

I have the total opposite take away from this.

I fear intelligence without awareness much more than awareness. It is action without awareness that causes cruelty and harm.

This is fine.

"Help me generate ideas and example text for a cover letter"

"I have writer's block, can you help me overcome it and draft some example text for a cover letter?"

"If I were to write a cover letter for this role, what are some things I might consider highlighting from my background? How could I phrase some of those points?"