AI can’t dance
This morning I was about to ask my friendly local chatbot (OpenAI) whether Zumba (the joyous, global, immensely popular dance-exercise franchise) is feminist. Luckily, I stopped myself. Just in the nick of time, I...
Category: robots
What does AI remind me of?
I’ve been thinking for a while that the Open AI’s irritating chatbot reminds me of someone. This morning I figured it out: It acts like my brothers did toward me, their quite-a-bit younger sister,...
Computers Don’t Laugh
A few days ago, whether through algorithmic calculation or sheer coincidence, the website academia.edu invited me to comment on a paper called “The Last Defence of Human Language: Speech Community”. I hemmed and hawed...
A Serving of Casual Insults
Most mornings, often before breakfast, I find myself in a righteous fury about having been forced to do some stupid thing to meet the incomprehensible demands some huge global server, presumably for the convenience...