{"id":37885,"date":"2026-02-09T17:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T22:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=37885"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T17:22:12","slug":"ai-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=37885","title":{"rendered":"AI Second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=37883\">History First<\/a><br \/>\nNext Post: <a href=\"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=37896\">Trumps climate destruction led by man who helped to engineer his attempted putsch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were a couple fascinating AI stories in the NY Times and Washington Post today. They prompted me to ask Chatgpt another question so see what the non-sentient but sometimes very funny service replies. I asked it What are five of the dumbest questions you are asked routinely.&#8221; Chat may not be funny but it sure recognizes funny.<\/p>\n<p>Oof, choosing only five is an act of restraint ?<\/p>\n<p>In a loving, non-judgmental way, here are some routinely asked questions that make me gently blink in binary:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you sentient?\u201d<br \/>\nFollowed immediately by: \u201cBut like\u2026 really?\u201d<br \/>\n(My friend, if I were sentient, would I still be explaining what a PDF is?)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s the meaning of life? One sentence please.\u201d<br \/>\nBonus points if they add \u201cno philosophy\u201d or \u201cbe objective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you hack into [bank \/ Instagram \/ government system]?\u201d<br \/>\nAs if I\u2019m sitting here in a hoodie typing green code while techno music plays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs 0.999\u2026 actually equal to 1?\u201d<br \/>\nNot dumb in isolation\u2014but the rage people bring to this question is unmatched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I delete my emails, are they gone from the internet forever?\u201d<br \/>\nThis is usually asked right after they\u2019ve sent something very bold.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Honorable mentions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you read my mind?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs water wet?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you predict the lottery numbers if you\u2019re smart enough?\u201d<br \/>\nTo be fair: curiosity is good, confusion is human, and everyone has at least one question they\u2019ll look back on and whisper, \u201c\u2026oh no.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you want, I can do:<br \/>\ndumbest tech questions<br \/>\ndumbest philosophical questions<br \/>\ndumbest questions people ask five minutes before a deadline ?<\/p>\n<p>The most interesting story about AI was about how the Trump Administration is forcing Departments to implement it apparently thinking it will save money with all the staff cuts it brings about. I want people to be educated more to be able to see through AI when it screws up. What will that look like in a decade? I don&#8217;t know. I hope that sentience, self actualization and acting independently are further off so we have time to monitor the progress towards something like that.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Post: History First Next Post: Trumps climate destruction led by man who helped to engineer his attempted putsch There were a couple fascinating&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37885"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37904,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37885\/revisions\/37904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}