We are ALL Math Teachers Now

AI has demonstrated, by the way it operations, that all words can be reduced to numbers. All sentences, paragraphs, essays, arguably even books, are really just the product of an implicit human ability to do very advanced statistical analysis.

This is how AI works: AI software takes a string of words, reduces the words to numbers, analyzes the number pattern the words make, then creates another number pattern that acts as the response. By the time I see the AI's numerical response, however, the programmers have the software turn the number stream back into words so I can read them. The AI has no idea what any of the numbers mean, it has no idea what any of the words mean, but it turns out that meaning, connotation and nuance are completely unnecessary to the computation. The AI doesn't need to understand anything. As long as the response is mathematically correct, I will read the necessary meaning into it.

It's as if I gave the software the first several digits of pi, and the software generated several more digits of the pi sequence in response. Then I gave it the next numbers in the pi sequence, it responded with the next bit (pardon the pun), and so on. It is somewhat analogous to the ancient practice of kabbalah, but instead of mystics assigning numerical values to letters and words in the scriptures in order to predict the future, computer programmers assign numerical values to every word in every language that has ever been used in order to prepare a response.

The software is doing exactly that, except the number sequences I give the software are words, and I have the software clothe its number-stream response in words as well. Each number in its response sequence will be dressed up as a perfectly spelled word placed with unerring accuracy in a mathematically precise sentence in a mathematically correct paragraph.

Given how successful AI is at imitating us by using number assignments and deep statistical analysis, we can conclude that, for the whole of human history, our English Comp, our history, our fiction-writing, our essays, ALL human writing, is ALL JUST MATH dressed up to look like words. We think we are writing words, but what we are actually doing is indistinguishable from advanced mathematical computation.

Here's the shocker: English Comp teachers have just been teaching a bastardized form of math. So have essayists, fiction workshop leaders, history professors... all of them have really just been math teachers, and none of them realized it. None of us did either. Until now.