What is my deciduous backyard tree that has small soft leaves, no flowers, no thorns, and brittle branches?
This stumped him (or her). Came back with a bunch of options, none right, no matter how many other descriptors I tried. Told this to Toots (visiting her Olds), she says I've got an app for that (!) and takes a photo of some of its leaves, pokes at the screen, and it says it's a "Robinia Umbraculifera". Dead set right. Apple i-Phone 1 - Great Oracle nil. Now I know what my dying tree is. Geez that's a relief.
Is AI a computer language?
In a word, no - then blah blah blah Natural Language Processing and more blah blah blah but it still means NO.
Okay, what does a piece of AI code LOOK like?
Examples of "Python" (not sure who he is, could be Monty) came back, which looks nothing like GWBASIC that I grew up on in 1986, lots of brackets and "array" commands and me not much wiser except - nup, none the wiser.
Right, the biggie - Will AI ever be more intelligent than humans?
I was just being cheeky. Facetious. Expected something that sounded a bit like "don't be stupid". The answer (bearing in mind this is Mr A.I. himself answering - bighead!) ....
"Many experts believe AI will achieve or exceed human level intelligence (known as Artificial General Intelligence or AGI) ... could appear in a couple of years, others place it further out, with a 10% chance ... within 9 years and 50% chance within 45 years."
Geez, sorry I asked.
So, challenge was on - Is AI capable of working out the reason for existence?
(thinking thinking thinking, then...) "While AI can process vast amounts of data to provide sophisticated summaries of human philosophical thought, it lacks the subjective experience, consciousness, and emotional depth required to assign meaning or understand the "why" of existence."
Why doesn't that make me feel superior?? But I half expected to see at the bottom - "...yet!"
NEXT - Can AI write a book review?
Apparently, as long as you point it at the sort of thing you want. Which is fair enough, as I know AI gets it's stuff from the internet and from digesting books by the library-full. But it can't come up with truly original thought. I think. I must try out Copilot in MS Word. Stay tuned.
Cheers...
T.R.E. (real human being)
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