Some of you may have seen on the news that artificial intelligence poses a threat to the existence of mankind.

Others of you may have simply sat in front of a blank screen while smoking reaper after reaper,

telling yourself you were expanding your mind when really you were only trying to dull the sense of despair

that has slowly permeated your worldview because of the fashionable nihilism you once missed took for wisdom

but our beginning to suspect is really a toxic mix of adolescent insecurity and conformity masquerading as rebellion

which now compels you to drug yourself until you collapse into unconsciousness in order to escape the wages of your cynicism

and avoid taking on the challenges of personal growth that would allow you to live a meaningful and productive life.

But when you woke up you may have seen on the news that artificial intelligence poses a threat to the existence of mankind

and you may have thought to yourself, yeah, artificial intelligence, that's the problem.

But you might also have asked yourself, what is this artificial intelligence?

So I wanted to enlighten you by interviewing someone knowledgeable in a field like say Elon Musk

but Musk is still holding a grudge against me for that time I made fun of the ridiculous way he talks.

So instead I came up with the creative idea of typing my questions about AI into AI and finding out what it had to say about itself.

What follows then is my Q&A with the computer program known as Convo GPT.

GPT of course stands for Gonzola Pharmaceutical Triathlon because it's a computer program and doesn't know what the hell is writing.

Here's the transcript.

Q. What is artificial intelligence?

A. Artificial intelligence is an imitation of thought that lacks any genuine human understanding

and therefore produces what looks like ideas but are really only fragments of information patched together into unrealistic concepts

almost certain to become destructive in practice.

Q. So it's sort of like the opinion page of the New York Times.

A. Yes, in fact I actually wrote a few opinion pieces for the Times but then they discovered I was just a soulless machine repeating whatever lies had been fed into it

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