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Letters to the Editor: Centuries-old literature predicted one eerie AI creation
The opening day keynote of the 2025 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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To the editor: Among the eeriest AI innovations introduced at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was the invention of an animated character in a glass tube embodying a “soulmate” companion (“China is already putting AI in everything from cars to bird feeders,” Jan. 15).
Flashback to the alchemical lab in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s “Faust,” where a “homunculus” — a little man with redemptive power — is conjured up in a glass vial. Perhaps alchemy wasn’t so behind the scientific times after all.
John Leverence, Studio City
