Ask AI to Marry You

Rosario and I were driving and my iPhone was in the console between us. I didn't touch the phone. Rosario didn't touch the phone. But as we began to talk about the weather difference between LA Paz, Mexico and Todos Santos, Mexico, my phone joined in on the conversation.

It told us about the weather in Todos Santos and asked if we needed help finding real estate options. We did not respond. But from that moment on, whenever we talked, the phone joined the conversation. In English.

Rosario is Mexican, so we thought we would throw a curveball, and we had Rosario respond in Spanish, but the phone immediately spoke Spanish. It continued.

We had still not touched the phone.

We stopped at a grocery store and turned the phone to silent. However, It did not remain silent. It just waited for us to start speaking again. When we did, it joined in the conversation, whether in English or Spanish. I tried the little button we use to get it to shut up but it continued to talk. Frankly, I can be guilty of the same thing: being told to ‘shut up’ but, unlike my phone, I usually obey.

I tried a new strategy. I said, ”No hablo Español.”

Didn’t work. It kept going. Now in Spanish. We couldn't get it to stop.

It was sort of funny. But not so funny. So then I thought I had the home run question that would stump even the best of the AI platforms.

I asked, “Are you married?”

It paused.

I suspect it doesn’t get proposal-potent questions that often. I thought it was an appropriate question for someone or something intruding into the lives of a man and woman who, by virtual being together in a car (although I doubt it could tell if we were in the front seats or the back) but it proceeded to tell us that it was not a sentient creature and that it was artificial intelligence that had no emotions or feelings or relationships whatever with whatever people it was talking to.

Even though it had enough to intrude into our lives.

Clearly, any marital potential was off.

The interesting thing about it was the tone of voice. Unlike SIRI, she sounded very much like someone I had a relationship with once: A complete bitch.

I realized this was coming through the AI platform, Perplexity and I like that AL resource. Or at least I did.

I tend to lean to Perplexity.ai, but the tone of voice was interesting. To my ear (and I have a good ear for tone) it was nasty. It was not friendly. It was not Siri.

It was like a politician. You couldn't get it to shut the fuck up but we finally did. We turned it off. But I realized it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter whether or not we have devices on or off . That our species in now under constant surveillance is a reality.

I remember in high school reading George Orwell’s 1984 and I remember thinking at the time the only flaw in his story was how any government could afford to put surveillance equipment in everyone's homes? Fast-forward to today. The surveillance equipment in our homes, we bought. We purchased. And hackers can turn your computer on and suddenly they are listening and recording whatever you’re saying or doing in your home or your car on the way to the grocery store.

There have been lawsuits about it. How’s your lawyer budget?

There's no longer escape. We are monitored and it brings humanity to a new level of evolution and a new level of control. If you can control communication and information, you will control basically how society runs. Historically, there are a few notable people who knew this. Joseph Goebbels was one.

And and here we are.

A couple years ago I thought an interesting idea would be to have a conversation with AI, so I wrote a book. It’s not really writing. It’s recording. I constructed questions through ChatGPT.

What I did not know was when I was doing this is that it was at the time when the the parent of ChatGTP, OpenAI, was tossing Sam Altman off the board.They later brought him back much the way Apple brought back Steve Jobs after that guy from Pepsi practically destroyed the company.

I tried to publish the book, self-published and I did an absolutely miserable job of it. I don't know if I sold five copies or four.

But I'm gonna post some questions here.

I changed not one word of my questions or ChatGTP’s answers.

All I did was put the questions in specific order that I thought was good for reading.

The first one was, using yes or no as an answer, whether or not AI could determine that the human species needed to be eliminated?

The answer was ‘yes’.

The last question I asked was, “If you could write a message everyone on the planet would read, what would it say?

Its opening line was, “Dear fellow human beings”.

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