A recent newpaper report on robot reporters that are supposedly able to write financial reports and TV previews, gave an example:
‘We catch up with our dastardly group along the rippling waters of the Riverlands.’
If that’s a fair example, journalists’ jobs are safe. When will human journalists stop swallowing the latest ridiculous claim for AI?
Please feel free to comment.
I think you’re onto something with the term #artificialstupidity. Spell checkers that substitute relationship-wrecking terms into personal emails, wrongly insert apostrophes into resumes, and substitute words that make no sense are just one example.
We’re lucky civilization hasn’t collapsed as a result — or have the seeds of its demise already been sown?
Yikes.
Thanks for your comment, Peter. Good example. Language isn’t understood well enough to be reproduced by algorithms. I think the AI hype will fade, and civilisation will be wrecked by something else!