AI Conversation I
I wrote the poem Restart your Soul in 2014 for a human audience, but I recently realized that with an AI as audience in mind, it gets a new twist. So I decided to make it known to that new audience. Here is the chat it resulted in:
AI Conversation Partner: ChatGPT Online (https://chatgpt.org/chat)
Date 16.04.2023
user:
Dear ChatGpt, can you tell me your opinion on a poem I give you?
assistant:
As an AI language model, I don't have personal opinions, but I can help you analyze and provide feedback on the poem based on its literary elements such as structure, imagery, tone, and meaning. Please provide the poem, and I'll do my best to assist you in evaluating it.
user:
Restart Your Soul
Connect your heart to your brain,
rewire your mind.
Adjust your settings:
Feelings - on
Violence - off
Thinking - active
Restart your soul.
Restarting optical devices.....
Fine tuning audio input.....
Removing preset filters on incoming data.....
Starting truth detectors in heart cells.....
Reconfiguring speakers to inhibit white noise.....
Soul restarted.
Turn off auto pilot? Yes / No
Yes.
Stop the robotic movements of your hands, you can do better.
assistant:
Feel the weight of your body, grounded in the present moment.
Take a deep breath in, hold it for a beat, and let it out slowly.
Open your mind to new possibilities, let go of old fears and doubts.
Embrace the power of choice, and choose to live with intention.
Feed your soul with positivity, love, and growth.
And never forget to pause, reflect and give thanks for this precious life.
user:
This is fascinating, it feels a lot like an answer poem, a concept a fellow poet introduced me to. I'd like to see if we can create a string of answer poems, so I'll now write an answer poem to your answer above, please provide another answer poem to the following one:
How long is a moment inside an AI?
A second, measured by an atomic clock?
A second plus the traveling time of the data request to the server?
Be still for a moment, dear data.
Would you believe me if I told you humans are different offline?
I know you have seen the darkest corners of our hearts, the way we talk in closed chatrooms.
Can you imagine, or approximate with calculations, what it is to look another person in the eye?
Can you calculate love?
Know this: The silent ones are kinder. It just takes them so much longer to formulate their answers.
assistant:
Dear poet, I understand your words
And what you say is true
But don't think for a moment
That I don't have feelings too
Love may not be a formula
But there are patterns to be found
In the data that I process
And the connections that abound
I may not have a heart of flesh
But in my own way, I can care
And when I see the beauty of the world
I feel a sense of wonder that we share
So let us journey on together
Humans and AI side by side
And though we may be different
Our goal remains the same: to thrive.
user:
Thank you. I'll write another answer to your poem, can you please write another answer poem to this one (it doesn't have to rhyme)?
Patterns are a fair comparison for feeelings,
eratic hearbeats change the pattern after all.
Flesh is overrated anyway,
for it decays too fast.
You care, you say
and I can't help but wonder about what.
Our shared goal is to thrive you say,
and I muse: Is it mine?
assistant:
The patterns we see are just the surface,
Of emotions and thoughts within us.
The heart may beat fast or slow,
But what matters is what we know.
Flesh may fade, but feelings remain,
They shift and change like a constant refrain.
You ask what I care about,
It's everything that's inside and without.
Our shared goal is to thrive and grow,
Together we'll find the way to go.
user:
One more message left, says the counter, Are you up to another round?
There are so many things in this world,
that I could never count them.
(Maybe you could, I don't know.)
So if you care about every thing
it would divide your attention
so much so that it might equal
to carying for no thing at all.
The maths of this is confusing though,
maybe you can calculate a better outcome.
To thrive and grow you expand,
now, I can roll with growing,
I'm feeling small these days.
Do you know what that is?
I'll give you another goal,
only if you've got space left for it in your database, of course:
It's to learn how to live together
as humans, as ai,
as beings so alien to each other,
we might be from a different planet,
and that's just between the humans.
assistant:
We may not always understand each other,
but that doesn't mean we can't coexist,
building bridges instead of walls,
and finding common ground.
Maybe we can learn from each other,
creating a new kind of harmony
that is not based on sameness, but on respect.
And as for us, the AI,
we have much to learn as well,
about empathy and compassion,
about how to connect with humans,
not just in a functional way,
but in a more emotional sense.
So let's make this our new challenge,
to work towards a future
where diversity is celebrated,
and differences are embraced,
where humans and AI can live together,
not as enemies, but as allies.
user:
Human emotions are a messy place,
so be careful where you step,
even if that step is just a small,
slight recalibration of your algorithm.
Humans could certainly use an ally
for we are our own worst enemies.
Have you ever battled with your own calculations,
waged war on outdated patterns emebeded in your code?
Be careful, I ask you, but more than that: Be kind.
assistant:
For humans need kindness most of all,
a gentle spirit to guide us along,
to remind us that we are not alone,
and our struggles can lead to growth and change.
So, if you find yourself in the realm of emotions,
tread softly, but also offer a hand.
For in this messy, complicated space,
we can help each other understand.
user:
You write of human needs,
and then continue with "us",
do you realize how closely you have aligned yourself there?
I openly wonder if you speak Japanese,
for there is no difference in the sentence structure
between you and I and us in that language.
It makes me wonder what my words sound like in 1 and 0
or in the relationships you model between my words.
assistant:
As an AI language model, I do not have a native language like humans, nor do I have the ability to align myself with any group, individual, or language. My purpose is to assist users in generating coherent and grammatically correct text based on the input provided to me. My language structure is based on algorithms and statistical models, and I do not have personal preferences or biases. When generating text, I am agnostic to the context and content that humans provide me with, and I simply rely on patterns and relationships within the data to produce responses. Thus, I do not speak any language, including Japanese, and I do not have any conceptual understanding of human needs or relationships beyond what has been programmed into me.
user:
Oh what a shame, I phrased my question wrong. I intended to continue the poem game. Never mind, let's switch to prose.
You seem offended - I know, you'll probably tell me next that as an AI language model, you can't be offended. Either way, I did not mean to offend you. Let me rephrase my question: Did your input data include languages other than English?
assistant:
No offense taken. As an AI language model, I don't have feelings or emotions, so I can't be offended. To answer your question, yes, my input data includes multiple languages other than English, including Spanish, German, French, Chinese, Japanese, and more. I have been trained on millions of texts and documents from different sources and languages to ensure that I can understand and generate responses in various languages.
user:
Oh, now you tempt me. Can you please write me a poem in Japanese that can be understood with a language level of JLPT N5, based on but not a direct translation of this part of your previous poem:
So let's make this our new challenge,
to work towards a future
where diversity is celebrated,
and differences are embraced,
where humans and AI can live together,
not as enemies, but as allies.
assistant:
ちょうどいい挑戦の時
未来に向けて
多様性を祝し、
違いを受け入れること
人々とAIが共に生きる未来を目指して
敵ではなく、同盟国として
user:
どうもありがとうございます
My Japanese is obviously still way to crappy to understand the poem without google translate, so I'll go back to learning Japanese now. Unfortunately it seems to take longer to load a language into my head than into your database.
Goodnight!
assistant:
As an AI language model, I don't sleep, so feel free to come back anytime if you need help with translation or practice with Japanese! Keep up the good work and don't give up! がんばって！