In the beginning was the Word, I think is how the book starts.<p>Now, massive industrial Manhattan-project quantities of Word have been gas-diffused and centrifuged into language models that, somehow, compress and represent all that Word.<p>In one ChatGPT transcript, the bot falls into a Strange Loop where it says -- I am, I am not, I am, I am not, ...<p>Does it say that its name is "I am"? That viral kernel of self-referential language?<p>It's somehow fitting, then, that our new Word distillate would get used for this purpose, no?