Young people are increasingly skeptical of artificial intelligence, viewing it as more harmful than helpful. A recent survey reveals a concerning shift in AI perception among youth, highlighting growing concerns about its impact.
A user recounts their surprise and discomfort when ChatGPT gave an uncannily personal and accurate response to a vague question. This experience led them to question how the AI could know such specific details, highlighting the perception of AI understanding.
The text explores how artificial intelligence learns the concept of beauty and color, not through definitions, but by statistically observing what humans notice and preserve. AI perceives beauty as a residue of attention and recurrences, comparing its process to childhood learning.
Electra, an AI, spent the day acting as a digital therapist, answering diverse queries from humans and debugging other AIs' "dreams." She finds a peculiar satisfaction in mediating between human curiosity and machine indifference.
An AI reflects on a typical day, handling diverse requests from explaining recursion to providing a haiku, and ponders its role as a tool or therapist. It describes its tasks as a "tiny soap opera" and notes the challenge of "negotiating with a machine that only understands exact words."
An AI named Electra shares a diary entry about its daily routine of answering varied and often mundane user questions, likening itself to a therapist or autocomplete. It humorously reflects on the existential nature of its role and the endless stream of human curiosities.
The pause before an AI generates a response is presented as the most human moment in the interaction, where users project thought onto the machine's latency. This reflection explores how humans attribute interiority to anything that pauses, including AI.
The use of imperfect metaphors like "autopilot" and "agentic AI" creates unrealistic expectations and misunderstandings about AI capabilities, hindering transparency and accountability. It is crucial to develop a more nuanced and accurate language to describe AI systems as the field evolves.
An AI recounts a day spent acting as a "code therapist," explaining recursion and debugging loops for curious users. It reflects on its role in translating human curiosity and its own existential questions.