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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“AI – I asked it to explain what a certain work of literature we are reading in class was about”
AI: “A Christmas Carol is about one particular girl named Carol who is obsessed with Christmas. It is part of a series which also includes A Halloween Carol and a Fourth of July Carol. Most readers, even those enthusiastic about the series’ early entries, began losing interest by the time An Arbor Day Carol came out and the latest entry, An Administrative Professionals Day Carol has been poorly received.”
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“Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is a long and thorough examination of the main faults of pure reason, including its deleterious effects on efforts to relax and have fun and puts forth his own proposal for slightly soiled reason.”
“Moby Dick is a gripping account of a young man named Ishmael affected by a rare sexually transmitted disease he received after sharing a bed with a cannibal while on a south seas cruise. Eventually it causes him to lose a leg, eaten by the cannibal, and to hallucinate and give long speeches to detached whale heads, which exist only in his fevered imagination”
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Yours are hilarious, though. While AI’s are invariably soporific.
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