{"id":1489,"date":"2021-07-17T13:30:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T13:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=1489"},"modified":"2022-01-14T17:58:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T17:58:52","slug":"50-things-every-ai-working-with-humans-should-know-by-ken-liu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/?p=1489","title":{"rendered":"50 Things Every AI Working With Humans Should Know by Ken Liu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>50 Things Every AI Working With Humans Should Know<\/em><\/strong> by Ken Liu (<em>Uncanny<\/em>, November-December 2020) takes the form of a futuristic article written about a Dr Jody Reynolds Tran and the neural network (essentially an AI) she creates called WHEEP-3. Tran later publishes a best-selling book about WHEEP-3, and subsequently causes a controversy when she reveals that the neural network was the author. There is more fuss later on when \u201cseeds\u201d of prose supposedly written by WHEEP-3 are found to be authored by Tran.<br>The story finishes with a reprint of one of WHEEP-3\u2019s seeds, the \u201c50 things\u201d referred to in the title, a mix of statements that range from the obscure to the observational:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>25. \u201cI never expected to sell my rational numbers.\u201d<br>26. Accepting that most humans will never get the joke.<br>27. That they cannot visualize more than three dimensions.<br>28. That they cannot manipulate time by slowing down or<br>speeding up.<br>29. That they are trapped, but think of themselves as trappers.<br>30. That they are free, but believe themselves imprisoned.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>A moderately interesting look at how future AIs may behave and communicate\u2014but ultimately a slight, fragmentary piece.<br>** (Average). 1,900 words. Story <a href=\"https:\/\/uncannymagazine.com\/article\/50-things-every-ai-working-with-humans-should-know\/\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50 Things Every AI Working With Humans Should Know by Ken Liu (Uncanny, November-December 2020) takes the form of a futuristic article written about a Dr Jody Reynolds Tran and the neural network (essentially an AI) she creates called WHEEP-3. Tran later publishes a best-selling book about WHEEP-3, and subsequently causes a controversy when she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[365],"tags":[17,296,366,12,367],"class_list":["post-1489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-liu","tag-17","tag-296","tag-ken-liu","tag-short-story","tag-uncanny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1489"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfshortstories.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}