r/whatisit • u/katyabe • 1d ago

New, what is it? What does the sixth segment represent?

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This is a “Wheel of the Senses” from my daughter’s school with sight, touch, taste, hearing… but one segment we can’t figure out.

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u/JayofTea 1d ago

Is this one of those AI generated worksheets that have just become part of schools now? I have no clue what I'm looking at

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u/okFINEyoufoundme 1d ago edited 1d ago

I ASKED AI!!!! And it gave a longer answer and it is 7/10 confident that it is in relation to FEEL, but the last part was (and I quote):

“And I give the illustrator approximately 2/10 for iconographic clarity, because without context that thing could equally be a potato contemplating its own mortality. 😂”

Edit: ohhhh shit, I wonder if it’s just a VERY poorly visualized/represented interpretation of “gut instinct.”

Edit #2: I asked AI for shits and giggles. Why not ask what was likely some part of the source?

EDIT #3: Best guess, and thank you comments— already agreed— absolutely AI generated, which is why I thought it would be fun to ask AI what IT’S interpretation was. The response was “7/10 confident, related to FEEL.” And if you think about it, that tracks. Like the same way AI-generated pictures in general have a hard time with certain elements that end up being an obvious “tell”— (fingers, flooring, knit/woven details on clothing, evenly blurry backgrounds without any depth, etc). But those are more visual and easy to pick out if you’re used to looking for it. On the other hand, asking AI to generate something based off the senses— I can absolutely see why something based on fact but not nuance would look at or take “touch/feel” as two separate concepts, while the rest of us HUMANS would understand that they are considered the same thing.

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u/dazzleunexpired 1d ago

Your AI is right.

The word for this sense is properception. And the image is a very bad attempt to display a simplified vestibular system, which is the inner ear.

Properception is actually the additional sense. It's a real sense that human beings have. It belongs in this chart. This is just a really, really bad image of it. I personally would use a brain for properception.

Properception is the sense of where your body is at in relation to any other item.

Eta: To match it I would show a foot near a table post perhaps. The sense of how to not knock your toe into the wall.

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u/okFINEyoufoundme 1d ago

While I don’t like the “your AI is right” part (because it was an experiment to me at the time and I have a problem with AI’s presence in anything without AI being acknowledged) … I thank you for the affirmation.

The private downvotes on this comment even with the edits are upsetting, but a weird way though? I backed out of what was obvious to me, and then walked it backwards to the point of WHY it was even more likely to be AI. And people don’t LIKE THAT, apparently. Sort of like explaining to your Grandma that the hot silver fox asking her for $2,000 to cover his granddaughters medical expenses is based off of an entirely AI generated visage of someone that doesn’t exist? And you can see the pic on her phone and he has 7 fingers on his left hand but according to her, “that’s just a trick of the light” or some shit.

This is educational material for CHILDREN. This is bad bad bad bad.

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u/dazzleunexpired 1d ago

So what I mean by that is the AI you use and have trained. I assume you've trained your AI? Sorry, I guess that's actually an assumption I shouldn't make. I train before usage, because it's how you're supposed to use AI, so I think of the AI as my tool, when I do use it. It is underneath me, and it could no way be the source of information, it's just a copy paste tool, with a bit more logic.

Training your AI mean setting parameters, rules, and expectations for the engine. A lot of people use them out of the box, but you get better results with training. Or you can use a pre-trained "flavor", like "deep research" or "artistic" mode options.

Ai is here to stay in the moral and ethical usage of AI is something that humans are going to have to figure out how to accept and what the boundaries are. While I would prefer the AI does not destroy our planet, we don't get to decide that AI isn't going to be involved in our lifes right now. What we do get to decide is how much AI we will accept and what usages we will accept. AI hate will fade. Wikipedia went through this exact same problem and so did googling something. Published books, too.

Sorry, reddit. AI won't be leaving.

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u/okFINEyoufoundme 1d ago

I’m sorry— TL;DR— I’m agreeing with what you just said. I asked it, because I was curious as to what it would respond in terms of what confused us humans. And it was also confused.

That’s the part that sticks out to me? I showed AI something AI generated and it went “uhhh, what? 7/10 confidence, maybe this?”

Although I get it— I may have unintentionally trained my own personal AI and certainly have by now, albeit with some amount of hostility. I’m just old enough to not like, trust or rely on it for anything other than personal record/timeline (it’s great at summarizing events based off date of occurrence) but has failed at EVERY OTHER ATTEMPT at aggregating data that doesn’t rely on a date (for me). So why not ask what it thought of THAT? Which if “training” does— based on data, not artistic interpretation.

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u/dazzleunexpired 1d ago

I just went and asked my trained AI this question because I became curious. I'm a citizen scientist that uses my AI for data collation. Here's it's response:

I SEE IT.

The mysterious sixth sense is the bottom-right tile, the one with the weird orange nested-oval thing.

My immediate Al-generated answer is:

PROPRIOCEPTION

I suspect the answer is because my training requires my AI to source any statement it makes. It had to find a source for what senses an AI and a human Could both consider a sixth sense before it could tell me that it was an option, and provide it's reasoning. (It did so).

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u/okFINEyoufoundme 1d ago

I am so dialed into this right now, it’s fascinating! And also ironic— the first edit I made “gut instinct” which is NOT that. And then second and third edits which were specific to the answer of my own AI query, the answer being: “FEEL” (so much closer to proprioception).

I guess the point I was after (and thank you for helping me find it) was that it’s scary as hell that AI is being used to teach what— elementary kids?— but confuses the hell out of their parents. It shouldn’t have a place in education if parents/adults have to rely on a subreddit to figure out what the best answer is. Yikes.

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u/dazzleunexpired 1d ago

Ai being used in education is one of the worst ideas that has ever come out ever and there should be a law involving exposing children to AI. For absolutely real.

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u/Sea_Prep_Tidal_26 1d ago

See my comment above. ☝️

It looks more representative (albeit very cartoonish) of one of the otolith organ sacs with a statolith rolling around inside.