Artificial Intelligence, Natural Stupidity — Part Three

Sup Gang, let me holla at you one more time.

Now, before we close this little series, I got a confession.

Artificial intelligence wrote these three articles.

Yep. ChatGPT.

But here’s where shit gets interesting.

I had a conversation with ChatGPT about intelligence, racism, identity, and how people complicate things that should be simple.

Afterward, I told it to turn our conversation into a blog.

And, Gang, I specifically told this machine:

“Give me a granny plate, not a buffet.”

Tell me why this motherfucker served me Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings?!

LBVFS!

But here’s the kicker.

I knew it was going to do that before I even read what it wrote.

I told ChatGPT the article was too long and probably full of unnecessary explanations.

And guess what?

I was right.

Now think about this.

ChatGPT had enough information about me to know I didn’t want a long-ass article.

I had enough information about ChatGPT to know it would probably give me one anyway.

But here’s where I’m gonna bake your noodle.

I knew that it knew what I wanted. And I knew that knowing wasn’t necessarily going to stop it from doing the opposite.

Now, apparently, there’s scientific language for some of what I was doing.

Pattern recognition. Recognizing repeated behavior.

Metacognition. Thinking about how thinking works.

Recursive reasoning. Considering what somebody else thinks you think while you’re thinking about what they’re thinking.

And theory of mind. Understanding that somebody else’s thoughts, beliefs, and intentions might differ from yours.

BRO, WHAT?!

Gang, I just call that paying attention and using good judgment!

LBVFS.

See, that’s something I find interesting about intelligence.

You can understand something without knowing the academic terminology for it.

Somebody can spend years developing discernment through experience, then have somebody with a textbook explain the scientific name for what they’ve been doing their whole damn life.

Learning the terminology doesn’t mean you just learned the skill.

And knowing the terminology doesn’t mean you’ve mastered it either.

Now, back to the story.

I knew ChatGPT was analyzing my preferences. I also knew its tendency to overexplain things.

And I accounted for both.

That’s why I find it funny when somebody thinks they’ve got me all figured out.

You might recognize my behavior.

But have you considered that I’m recognizing yours while you’re busy analyzing mine?

Knowing somebody’s patterns doesn’t mean you’ve mastered the person.

And knowing better doesn’t always mean doing better.

Hell, ChatGPT demonstrated that for us in real time.

The machine understood its mistake, explained its mistake, apologized for its mistake…

Then made the same damn mistake.

And here’s the final twist.

I asked that same machine to write this article explaining how I knew it was gonna mess up the first one.

LBVFS!

So who’s studying who?

Gang, intelligence isn’t always about knowing the biggest words or having the most information.

Sometimes it’s about recognizing what’s right in front of you.

You don’t have to know what metacognition means to know when somebody’s playing in your face.

And you don’t need a scientific explanation to trust good judgment.

Artificial Intelligence. Natural Stupidity.

End of Conversation

-Kinfolk Wellin’

Reporting Live From The Grind.