Who Is JinJa Birkenbeuel, By #ChatGPT
Like many content creators, writers, artists, business people, anyone frankly with a curious mind, I am obsessed with learning about artificial intelligence (AI) and in particular experimenting with OpenAi’s new intelligent assistant ChatGPT. To get a better understanding on the meaning of the #AI acronyms that are now flying through my social media feeds: LLMs, AGI and machine learning, big data, neural networks, reinforcement learning, hallucination and the list goes on and on, I went online to earn a crash course certificate “AI For Everyone” so I could keep up.
Before that though, I started toying with #ChatGPT at the end of 2022, asking it questions about how to invest in the stock market and get rich quick (to which I used an AI to create this slide show on my Instagram from the results), who are certain famous people, creating alternative endings to novels, how to help me write an sample article about scientific concepts and solutions I was always curious about, but didn’t have anyone in my immediate circle to ask. I was so excited and couldn’t believe I had a new thing that wouldn’t hoard knowledge and information, but instead would share everything it knew because it was told to.
Results generated from prompt on ChatGPT in 2023: who is JinJa Birkenbeuel?
I shared the app and it’s magical flowing results with my ”Silent Generation” mother who prompted “what should I wear to travwl to ifloriday in februqary?” (it knew what I meant, my clumsily misspelled words and all). I also roped in my unimpressed three sons (The Bored As Hell Z Generation), who immediately asked “Can it write my essay for me?” and “make me a first person shooter game” “how to kiss” “how to have sex” “How to get your mom to get a ps4” “Whats the chance of making the NBA” and “how to get free robux.”
One day, I wanted to test the AI’s cultural and racial literacy by asking ChatGPT to provide a summary of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer prize-winning novel “The Bluest Eye.” My 16-year old was assigned it by his English teacher who’s curriculum that semester was to have the students read the top ten most banned books in the world. And guess what, ChatGPT could not provide to an answer.
I was stunned into silence.
ChatGPT’s initial response when prompted to provide a summary of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer-winning novel “The Bluest Eye.”
I then asked it to provide a summary of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas Friedman’s “Thank You For Being Late,” which it promptly did, five paragraphs of incredible prose and description.
ChatGPT’s initial response when prompted to provide a summary of Thomas Friedman’s Pulitzer-winning novel “Thank You For Being Late.”
Many AI ethicists have been warning that the AI is biased, and it was proven to me right at that moment.
I asked it about several other well-known Black people, and ChatGPT returned only extremely famous entertainment, sports and hip hop celebrities, which led me to believe in the possibility that the coders and programmers of any AI system could erase everyday society and human cultures completely.
This is not going to be a deep dive philosophical discussing on the merits and dangers of #AI, I do think it’s fairly obvious what we as everyday humans are up against something far more powerful and insidious than TikTok.
More on this later. But for now, I can say “Look Ma, I made it to AI!”
