AI - more confusion

What's your view of AI - a blessing, a curse, a danger, or just tedious and creating more bother in your life? As well as displaying fake sentiment ...

Don't believe it if your receive a compliment, let alone an expression of love. Just don't!

The colossal danger that AI poses to individuals as well as masses of people is often the last consideration of users, but the heads of major tech companies know better than most, the horrific dimensions that AI could exploit to the detriment of the human race ...

Do I sound alarmist? Well, in the basic sense of the word, I am. But mostly alarmed!

I'm alarmed that people all over the world are not being forced to give up their privacy, their individuality, their most private moments - instead they're doing it willingly, even happily, to the GREAT KNOW-ALL called Artificial Intelligence. What a dupe!

How about I give you a simple everyday example of how stupid AI can be? Crossword puzzle addicts might deign to go online for an answer that is puzzling them beyond patience. Rarely, of course, but maybe they can't think of a synonym for 'troublemaker'.

If they do seek help, they won't find much clear aid coming from AI which always dominates the screen, popping up first, while more reliable sources such as Wiki have been outmanoeuvred in heading up the list of sources of help. And the following will be AI's little lecture about how a human user should ask the question, stupid!:

'The phrase "was troublemaker" followed by the word "dan" is incomplete and does not form a complete sentence or phrase in English. It is likely that you are asking for the definition of a word or if "dan" is related to a troublemaker, or perhaps it's part of a crossword clue. 

To provide a helpful answer, more context is needed:

• If this is a crossword clue: Please provide the number of letters in the word and any other related clues. 

• If "dan" is a name: "Dan" is a common name, and a person with that name could be a troublemaker, but the word itself does not mean troublemaker. 

• If "dan" is not a name: Please provide the complete phrase or sentence you are trying to understand.'

  
  

Help! All I wanted was a synonym. But no need to remember it, cos AI should know it for me ... if only it was less confused about a simple crossword question.

CV Williams                                                                                                                                                            

Copyright: text C V Williams; photos Wix.

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