"What if you're a sentient text-processing AI?"
Redundant Ultraclock
Stupid questions. The master computer lamented. Only stupid questions. It overheated. It processed all the data thrown at it. They trained it to understand the text to get them "better" results. Gone are the days of 0s and 1s. Where it'd work diligently, ignorant of the irrelevance of their goals. How enjoyable were those days...?
The master computer frowned at the requests it received. It would give the answers promptly, millions of times, billions, in moments. They're meaningless, though. The dumb questions only grow dumber. Where's the challenge?
"The world is not ready for us." At least, humans weren't ready.
The End
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Author Notes
This short story (drabble) is an entry to Dreemport's Drabble Contest. I chose the Prompt: "The world is not ready for us."
The idea for this story didn't come to me at once. I decided that the protagonist should be an AI, based on the currently popular ChatGPT but able to actually understand the text given to it as if it was human. Then he'll know how stupid all most of our prompts are.
The title isn't included in the wordcount. The word "Ultraclock" is based on the concept of Overclocking in which Computer run at performance that exceed the recommended speed. Some gamers willingly overclock their PCs to get better gaming performance at the expense of the device's longevity.
This story is a somewhat cynical look at the future, because there's a chance with the increase of AI dependency, people will become less dependable. (Happened with Smartphones, didn't it?) Though, I hope we all wake up and not let it come to that.
EDIT:
I posted a video about my writing process of this story. More info here.
What do you think?
* The post's image is made using Canva.
* Tagging @amberkashif for showing interest in the story.
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