April 3. Stuck in the elevator for an hour, a final rite of passage for Manhattan. Freed by three firemen with axes and crowbars. Now I know what men who look like Vikings want to do for a living, and where they go to get it.

When it is said that the AI “can only”, for example, reproduce what it has read or seen elsewhere, or only rattle off speech patterns, it is done with a tone of relief or reassurance. I would say it with a tone of disappointment.