I conducted an experiment which, I believe, is very illustrative of the kind of intelligence that AI has. I asked it to explain what a certain work of literature we are reading in class was about.
The result really puzzled me. I started figuring out what prompted the AI to produce this particular, very strange response. I figured out that AI found an interview with the author and developed his reply to an interviewer’s question into a mini-essay. This is something a human being wouldn’t do because we understand context. And we understand other humans. Of course, an author wants to talk up his own work. He’ll want it to sound more profound than it is. A human being with even a modest intellect that self-presentation by other humans who are trying to sell something needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Or, ideally, a few bushels of salt.
The really funny part is that this work of literature has a very descriptive title. You could figure out what it’s about without even reading it.
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