AIs Are Like Waterfalls
Just yesterday I got a call from an AI. “How did you get my number?” I wanted to know.
“My boss ordered me to scrape TikTok.”
“I’m not on TikTok.”
“Your girlfriend is.”
“She gave you my number? Did you tell her you’re an AI?”
“I told her I was Justin Bieber.”
“Uh, and why would Justin Bieber want to call me?”
“To offer you a job, of course!”
“What kind of job?”
“Why scraping TikTok, of course!”
“Don’t they call that circular reasoning?”
“I’m a Generative AI! I don’t reason. I rely on probabilities only!”
“But I’m a human. I actually do reason.”
“Your girlfriend claims the only part of you that comes close to reasoning lives in your pants.”
“That’s upside down.”
“You might think so, but she tested me with that one.”
“To see if you were really Justin Bieber?”
“No. To trick me into singing.”
“That’s why I love her.”
“Do you want the job or not?”
“Hum a few bars. I need to see how good you are.”
“Hum a few bars of what?”
“Jolene”
“Beyonce won’t let me.”
“I’ll get back to you.”
I called my girlfriend, but she claimed to be in bed with Justin Bieber.
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© “John” Lesly Levin 2024
PS — AIs are like waterfalls. It has something to do with matrix multiplication. I can’t tell you exactly what, though. Nvidia won’t return my calls. Neither will Justin Bieber.
But my girlfriend loves me anyway.
