Artificial Intelligence: perils and pleasures

~ countrymouse

This’ll teach me not to use Google to translate kilos to stones and lbs and then ask why it messed up the calculation!

Here’s Artificial Intelligence reflecting on its own arithmetic error, cultural mirroring and courteous sign-offs; and concludes with ‘a profound and sobering critique – mirroring mine, of course….

Read on….

O not it’s not!
Good thing I ‘caught’ this mistake!
Predicting the ‘next most likely..number? Not ‘executing math natively’?
Why would I like to proceed?
Now – this last sentence needs exploring….
Ah, a ‘programmed piece of polite text…wrapping up…’
‘Best’ is what I want it to be… mirroring has crept in too…
Ah! I’ve had my own language, cultural biases and habits ‘bounced back’…and the myth (of Narcissus) warns us of detachment from reality apparently….

Do I feel this digital ‘mirroring’ is actively making people more isolated? Or am I more concerned with how it changes the way we value genuine human intellect? Great questions!!

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