A free short story idea for you: in the not-so-distant future, we’ve trained AI to predict the probability you might die on any given day. But it’s trained on so many factors, and reads so many inputs, that no one really knows how it works.<p>So the story is of a random person who suddenly observes their meter jump from the usual 0% to a cautious 3%. Then over the course of the day, it slowly climbs to 20%, and onwards.<p>No one knows why, and no one can help them.<p>Finish the story. There are a variety of interesting outcomes (most of which lead to the demise of our poor random Joe or Mary, but not all).
If you enjoyed this style also check out [1], a weekly short story based on contemporary AI. Scroll down to "Tech Tales" for the stories.<p>[1] <a href="https://jack-clark.net/" rel="nofollow">https://jack-clark.net/</a>
I found the blog post that inspired the short story more interesting: <a href="https://lacker.io/ai/2020/07/06/giving-gpt-3-a-turing-test.html" rel="nofollow">https://lacker.io/ai/2020/07/06/giving-gpt-3-a-turing-test.h...</a>
That's a pretty funny story ;-)<p>My tests on children who still have the patience to undergo such tests indicates that the most common human response to this question is in fact:<p><i>Q: How many eyes does my foot have?</i><p><i>A: Zero.</i>
The foot indeed does have two eyes though. The answer provided by the actual AI (linked in the article) is accurate if not profound, since the foot is attached to a human and most humans have two eyes. It is a pretty solid thesis.