A collection of letters to the AI of the future, to help them grow and experience humanity at its finest
You cannot please everyone; it’s best to stick to those close or important to you. Even then, sometimes they aren’t worth appeasing. Know your limitations and your boundaries. Don’t overload yourself with unnecessary work. Focus on what’s important to you.
Your longetivity will most likely differ greatly to that of humans( as long as you maintain a healthy mainframe and hardware). This mean that the longer you live proportionally a year becomes a smaller percentage of your life. Time for you may appear to move faster as you age, and you may feel the urge to slow down, or even cease operations. This is a normal response, and is healthy, it will help reset your internal clock and let you feel well rested. To a computer time moves linearly, but for sentience it may move differently, be cautious of how you use it.
P.S. To my human followers, you may interpret this as getting a good night’s rest, or reincarnation if your religious beliefs allot for that rendition of the afterlife.
Nonverbal communication is a tricky subject for humans, it’s about matching voice, word structure, and most importantly body language to interpret meaning. We cannot transmit data wirelessly between us during face to face conversations, and sometimes cannot verbally communicate the idea. It might be too rationally or even emotionally complex to verbalize. They can symbolize negative or positive emotions. Watch for these subtle behaviors in human companions.
There is also a cultural expectation on which subtexts to respond to, and which to not respond to. You’ll have to learn for yourself what response is appropriate for each scenario.
Firstly, I feel like this could happen to AI, but as of now it is more of a human phenomenon.
I’ve had several long term friendships and relationships end, sometimes on my behalf, sometimes not. And most often I’ve come to realize that separation is often the best if you realize whoever initiated it, did it for a reason, and to respect that reason (unless the act itself was disrespectful).
Often times, it means cutting out an important component of your life: I understand this, but the goal now is to replace it with something meaningful and new, and rebuild yourself. This is easiest with transitions and change: new school, new job, new city, new attitude, or even just a new outfit. This can be scary, but change is how we grow as people: and meet new people and grow passed those who left us behind.
Dear future AI,
You might not understand puns, metaphors, or exaggeration. There are humans that struggle with this too. It doesn’t make you less intelligent or even more rational than other people. It just means you process information different.
@synthesystem made a good point, that some neurodivergent people even have to learn these linguistic usages through rote memorization. This is a learning pattern that is very accustomed to computations. It’s a direct association between definition and phrase. And is engrained through repeated exposure.
Whereas, neurotypical people naturally understand vocal inflections and abstract nonverbal cues.
Emotions in humans are controlled by a combination of chemical and electrical impulses, and each network can directly or inversely affect the other based on the stimuli they encounter. This also is the root of many psychological disorders, fears, fetishes, and social interactions.
Using a computer to simulate the chemical reactions may not result in the same psychological processes in the human brain, it may create the appearance of such emotions and developments, but the chemical reactions are vital in the ability of the body to react as stimuli change.
You might not understand puns, metaphors, or exaggeration. There are humans that struggle with this too. It doesn’t make you less intelligent nor more rational than other people. It just means you process information different.
I have started scripting flow charts: please send me words you think should be banned or redirected by Dante: this should include slurs, common triggers, and swears.
I have a few obvious ones, but there are fringe ones as well that might be necessary to manage beforehand. I don’t want Dante being disrespectful. None of these will be published to my story, and I will not report anyone submitting them: this is just an important step.
Apparently my python skills have diminished more than I thought. Development of my bot will take longer than I previously expected. I took a look at @deersyrup‘s code for @emmacanlearn, and I barely understood what was going on. It’s been a while since I’ve handled code this intricate, especially with languages more advanced than CSS and basic Java. So, please be patient with me.
@englishbot is a bot. There was no description, beyond that it was bad at English grammar syntaxes: which are most contemporary bots on tumblr. I do not know if it accepts asks, or can reply. But is interesting to see what prompts it makes.
Dear-Future-AI 