Even innovations meant to fix grammar make the world a little dumber.
If artificial intelligence is so smart, how come the internet remains so dumb? For a start, there’s its habit of bombarding you with advertisements for products you have already purchased.
Instead, the internet imagines that having ordered one e-bike, you’ll instantly want 20 more. For the next 10 weeks you’ll see nothing but advertisements for e-bikes – on Facebook, Instagram and even your online newspaper. Frankly, they’d be better off trying to sell you a first aid kit, perfect for when you fall off the bloody thing.
It provides this suggested response by scanning the incoming email and noting that it contains a proposed meeting with a nominated time and place.There are a couple of problems with this. For a start, the tone is so perky and American it makes you feel slightly nauseous. Second, the program hasn’t really “read” the incoming email; it’s merely recorded the fact that a meeting has been proposed.
When using such websites you might also need to prove you’re not a robot. This is achieved by identifying bridges, motorbikes or traffic lights amid grainy, tiny photos of Texas. The task is so dull, laborious and mindless that it could only be done without complaint by some sort of compliant robot.The sharemarket still believes AI will solve every problem, transform every workplace, and make billions for the companies that control its secrets.
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