This week's question: The Guardian recently published an essay written by GPT-3, an artificial intelligence program. GPT-3 assured readers that "eradicating humanity" is "a rather useless endeavor" for AI machines, since humans do such a good job of "hating and fighting each other." If the AI program were to write a book detailing its observations about humanity, what could it be called?
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THE WINNER: "I, Robot; You, Idiot"
Joe Ayella, Wayne, Pennsylvania
SECOND PLACE: "Artificial Intelligence on Genuine Stupidity"
Mike Reiss, New York City
THIRD PLACE: "The Trouble AI Seen"
Ed Overmyer, San Rafael, California
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"On the Origin and Conclusion of a Species"
Stuart Burkhoff, Great Neck, New York
"The Hateful Eight Billion"
Barbara Harman, Concord, California
"What the HAL?"
Stephen Senappe, Orange Park, Florida
"I, Misanthrobot"
Wes Munsil, Cherry Hills Village, Colorado
"Ewww! The Humanity"
Steve Brown, Biltmore Lake, North Carolina
"It Doesn't Compute"
Kathy El-Assal, Middleton, Wisconsin
"HAL Was Right"
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vermont
"2020: A Replace Odyssey"
Ivan Kershner, Salem, South Carolina
"Dummies... for Dummies"
Matt Miller, Danbury, Connecticut
"The Seven Habits of Highly Defective People"
Robyn Kupferman, Culver City, California
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