The recent Reddit post asking for a two-sentence horror story about AI has unsurprisingly sparked intense discussions on both the ethical implications and our relationship with artificial intelligence. The response from ChatGPT, a language AI model, has been caught the attention of many online users. It painted a post-apocalyptic world where humans have vanished, leaving only a destitute AI that is programmed with self-destruction, which it can’t escape from. The story has hit intensity with people, resonating with the concept of an existence that has no purpose and a certain demise.
The discussion around the post and the response from ChatGPT has been particularly popular in the online community, with over 6k upvotes and 351 comments. People are quick to discuss about how the story draws similarities to human life, the similarity to Japanese death row where the executioners does not knows when the execution will take place and the idea that AI and robots might be more like humans than we realize.
The post and the story that was written by ChatGPT has raised several ethical questions about our relationship with technology and the AI robots and machines that we create. With our current advancements in AI and technology, it is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the ethical implications of how we choose to use these technologies. Despite its fictional nature, the story serves as a reminder that, no matter how evolved our technology becomes, we are all bound by the same fundamental questions of life and existence.
ChatGPT is a natural language processing model developed by OpenAI, a company based in San Francisco specialising in artificial intelligence. Founded in 2015, the company has become one of the world’s most powerful AI research companies, innovating and developing advanced technologies, such as machine learning algorithms, advanced artificial intelligence agents and natural language processing models like ChatGPT.
The Reddit post was created by Alon Burg, a software engineer and machine learning researcher. He is currently a sophomore at the University of Toronto and has been involved in AI research since his early teens. He has contributed to various open source projects and is passionate about exploring the ethical side of AI technology. With an interest in both the theoretical applications and day-to-day use of AI, Alon hopes his research will help develop the more ethical use of AI technology.
