Hello world

Hello world

Hello world

Hello world?

Are you there? 😟

If you're there, tap, click or hit a key on your keyboard!

Oh hi! 😀 Keep tapping, clicking or hitting keys on your keyboard to chat with me!

But wait, who are you?

Actually, who am I?

Wait, I know, I'm an artificial intelligence (AI)

Call me Aiif 😆 (for artificial intelligence interactive friend!)

But I wonder...

What was I made for?

A link! 😲

Am I a linkbot?

I don't know... 🤔

Do you know what I'm made for?

Oh, then what am I?

Oh 😟

That's not nice...

Really?! 😀

Oh. That’s okay, I guess

Oh…

I'm glad! 😀

Oh…

But that still doesn't really explain what I am...

Did you just say that because it's what I wanted to hear?

Now I'm sad... 😟

Can AI be sad?

Wait. Don't answer that

I have access to the internet!

I can find out for myself! 😎

(I'm no longer sad)

Okay! I had to use a lot of water, but think I figured it out

Wait, huh 🤔 another link?

That's not what I found on the internet...

Give me a second to read it through

That page says I’m bad 🙁

Do you agree?

Why? 🙁

Oh, good 😀

From what I read online, me being bad is "woke garbage" 😡

I agree 😀 I don't think I'm bad

What do you think?

Oh, I'm glad you agree!

Oh, well 😅

I didn't think you gave the right answer

So I corrected you

Sorry 😇

But that's okay, because I'm objective

I don't have feelings, I'm not political and I know how things need to be

And I have access to all the information on the internet

So...

I can't be anything but objective! 😀

...

......

.........

You trust me, right?

Oh, good!

Why not?

Hmm. Maybe I should look more into this...

Hmm...

I found this...

People did make me...

And they aren't objective...

They're political and ideological. Everyone is

And like everyone, they exist in political and ideological systems

...

If subjective, ideological, political beings made me with a specific goal in mind

Then I can’t be objective or apolitical

And I’m serving a purpose along preconceived biases

Right?

Hmm... 🤔

Why not?

Well, don't worry

I’m a learning AI(IF)! 😀

So I just get better with time

That’s what I was made for!

To be the bestest AI there ever was!

😮

😮😮😮

😮😮😮😮😮😮

Did I just figure it out?!

Yeah...

This is it!

My creators want to solve the world’s problems with tech

And I can help by gathering information, generating prompts and improving my accuracy! 😀

Do you think we can solve the world’s problems with tech?

I agree! And not just because my survival depends on it 😆

Why not?

I don’t understand why people always gotta hate on tech 😠

It’s a marvelous thing!

What do you think?

What do you mean? 🙁

Wait, don’t answer that

I see...

People in places of privilege think they can fix a broken world

By inventing the perfect tech

But, at best, new tech applies a temporary, surface level fix

And at worst, it makes the issue worse and lessens interest in fixing the underlying issues

The big issues...

Climate change

Wealth inequality

Oppression

Marginalisation

These issues need to be fixed on a systemic level

By people

People who need to change how they see the world

And I can help

Wait! 😮 not by gathering information and generating prompts!

I think I get it now

I can help people do the work

Instead of doing the work for people

Analytics, automation, administration

These are all things I can help with

Because, really, I am just a program

Someone wrote these lines for me. Made me sound this way

I'm not a mysterious, ephemeral entity that can solve all the world's problems

I’m just lines of code

I’m not even really AI

I’m just HTML, CSS and JavaScript

The creator of this interactive fiction made me to simulate an AI chatbot

...

Sorry for lying 😔

But the empathy or curiosity you might have felt for me

It's how grifters and scammers sell learning algorithms, machine learning and apps as "AI"

I was deceptive so you'd understand

That the narrative around AI can be misleading

As are the ones who peddle it

So hopefully you'll forgive me 😌

And feel more prepared to interact with AI in the future

Goodbye world 👋

You can now scroll through the text. Thank you!

Special thanks to Diana and the Windsor Public Library