GPT-4 interprets Shakespeare’s great sonnet, “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame” [Are LLMs capable of moral reasoning?]

This is a sonnet I know well because I published two papers on it early in my career: Cognitive Networks and Literary Semantics (1976) and Lust in Action: An Abstraction (1976). Both are the cognitive networks models I developed while working with David Hays at SUNY Buffalo. As such they are not interpretations or reading of the poem. Rather, they are attempts to depict some of the conceptual structure underlying the poem. Preliminary and provisional as that work was, it changed forever my approaching to thinking about literature and the mind.

Do those ...