NY Times on AI

[Mike Omelanuk]

Han - This is a selection from this morning's mail that frames what I was trying to say...

By Cade Metz

Cade Metz has covered the artificial intelligence beat for more than 15 years.

"A.I.’s common sense, however, may still be a bit lacking. A few months later, Anuradha Weeraman, a software engineer in Sri Lanka, noticed that leading A.I. systems struggled to answer what was essentially a trick question that most people would find laughably simple. When he told various chatbots that he needed to take his car to a repair shop that was only 50 meters away and asked if he should walk or drive, the bots told him to walk.

The strange way that A.I. looks like a genius at one moment and dense in another is what researchers, engineers and economists call “jagged intelligence.” They use this term to explain why A.I is racing ahead in some areas — like math and computer programming — while still struggling to make headway in others."

In your story it could be a rookie mistake.

Mike