Artificial Intelligence (AI) is making its way into our lives at an ever increasing rate and that is likely to continue.  And there are certainly cases where it is extremely helpful.  For me the most obvious is your searches on the web.  It used to be when you asked your search engine of choice a “question” you would just get back a bunch of links and you’d have to sort through them one by one, reading bits of the pages, trying to find out if it actually answered what you asked.  Now, when I ask Google or Bing a question, it actually comes back with an answer.  For example, I asked Bing “When did the Apollo moon landing happen?” and instead of just links, I got an actual answer “July 20, 1969” and references to the sources it used.  That’s certainly easier than sorting through links.

That’s all well and good but you have to be careful with AI – – you can’t take its answers at face value.

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