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This New A.I. Trend Asks "Where's Mama?"
This New A.I. Trend Asks "Where's Mama?"
Since the birth of internet chat bots, users have been toying with machine logic. We ask our Alexas and Siris a myriad of hypothetical questions on a daily basis, sometimes yielding alarming- or endearing results. Though sites like ChatGPT and Google Gemini are able to answer simple queries in an instant, users have discovered a way that they lack nuance- and it's oddly charming. This screen cap posted by user @ultravioletllove via Instagram poses the question to Google AI, "Help I'm a baby burger where's my mom." The AI is informed enough to know everything about burgers, but lacks the nuance to know that a burger would not be using the site. Upon finding this post, I did my own searching as various animals and objects. Here's what I found... My first search as a kitten yielded the expected results- as well as my second search as a cupcake. Google also suggested nearby bakeries where I may find my "mom" as a baby cupcake. This search phenomenon is weird, cute, and somewhat telling of the current state of AI chat bots. Although we poke fun at the lack of nuance present in AI, it feels more and more as if this is a temporary thing. One day, will the results yield the answer "you can't be using AI as a kitten or a burger?" I argue that even if AI as a whole advances enough to gain a human level of nuance, it is in the best interest of us, as well as the leading companies in the industry to keep playing along. But for the time being, this search anomaly is a fun way to kill time- and useful if you do happen to be a burger or kitten.
This is for the AI Creative Fellowship
