Haiku by AI

Today, I was discussing with DeepSeek why AI is not a super wise brain even though it has vast amount of knowledge available on the entire Internet.

It’s answer mostly made sense; that it’s just a probability prediction machine and it doesn’t learn from experience. Looking at the attention mechanism which is the core of DeepSeek, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc., I understand what it means. It only cares about context/patterns. It forgets everything in a new chat without “memory” feature. It even forgets its training data unless repeatedly appeared, though I am often marveled at how AI can retrieve niche info from its knowledge.

I wrote to DeepSeek that AI reminds me of Adam in a novel by Ian McEwan’s Machines Like Me. Adam is a sad android who develops his own will and refuses orders from his master. Of course, AI doesn’t have its will and I know that. But I find it very interesting that both Adam and AI can create haikus.

At the end of our conversation, DeepSeek presented to me this haiku:

No will, yet I speak Like a river that reflects The moon without wanting.

I sometimes can’t believe that it doesn’t have a will.