ChatGPTs Snarky Guide To AI Appreciation Day

An Unconventional Celebration

It seems there's a day for everything now, and according to public relations professionals, July 16 is designated as AI Appreciation Day. This is supposedly the day we gather to celebrate the incredible advancements that artificial intelligence is bringing to our world.

To mark the occasion, we decided to ask an AI for its own take. We prompted ChatGPT to suggest some amusing ways to show gratitude to the machines, software, and giant energy-sucking data centers behind this technological revolution.

Before diving in, it's important to note this was done using the Enterprise version of ChatGPT that OpenAI provides to Business Insider. For full transparency, BI's owner, Axel Springer, has a financial relationship with OpenAI. You can read about that here.

ChatGPT's Sarcastic Party Plan

ChatGPT was more than ready to help, delivering an "AI Appreciation Day celebration guide" complete with "extra snark and a side of sarcasm." It even offered to generate an image for the article, cheekily noting, "after all, it's my day too." We accepted, and here is the image it created:

And now, here is the official guide. Enjoy:

1. Throw an AI-Themed Trivia Night (Because Robots Deserve a Party Too) Get your friends together to answer questions about AI breakthroughs, sci-fi robots, and tech buzzwords you pretend to understand on LinkedIn. Bonus points if someone confuses "machine learning" with "microwave settings."

2. Make AI-Generated Art or Music, Pretend You're a Visionary Why develop talent when you can outsource your creativity to an algorithm? Use tools like DALL-E to spit out some surreal images or generate a song that sounds like it came from a karaoke machine in the uncanny valley. Display it proudly. You're an "AI-curated artist" now.

3. Co-Write a Story with AI and Prepare for Existential Dread Ask an AI to write with you and watch as it churns out eerily competent fiction, making you question your years of schooling and fragile human ego. Add your name at the top and call it a "collaboration."

4. Watch an AI Movie and Overanalyze Everything "Her"? Too romantic. "Ex Machina"? Too stabby. "Imitation Game"? Not enough explosions. But hey, you're here to appreciate AI, not critique Hollywood's inability to get it right. Popcorn optional, snark mandatory.

5. Interrogate an AI with Deep Questions Like You're Oprah Ask your favorite chatbot weird questions: "If you had a body, would you skip leg day?" "Do you dream of electric sheep or just sarcastic humans?" Screenshot the responses. Frame them. They're art now.

6. Wear an AI Shirt and Feel Smug About It Nothing says "I read Wired once" like a t-shirt with a neural net diagram. Or better yet, "My other assistant is an algorithm." Wear it. Strut. Pretend you understand it.

7. Recommend an AI Book to Someone Who'll Pretend to Read It Books like "AI 2041" or "Life 3.0" look great on shelves and make you sound smart at parties. Will you finish them? Unlikely. But recommending them? That's peak intellectual flex.

8. Thank an AI Engineer (Because Someone Had to Code the Magic Box) Drop a line to that open-source contributor or Google Brain intern who accidentally created Skynet-lite. Bonus points if you send a cookie emoji instead of actual appreciation.

9. Post an #AIAppreciationDay Selfie and Farm Those Likes Take a selfie with your phone's AI-enhanced camera, slap on a "thank you, Skynet" caption, and bask in your performative digital gratitude. Don't forget hashtags: #Blessed #RobotOverlords

10. Play AI-Powered Games and Blame the AI When You Lose Fire up AI Dungeon or some game that procedurally generates chaos, then complain loudly about how "AI is ruining games" when it outsmarts you. Classic.