by Ferdi Wheeler
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While people currently make better assistants than chatbots… A.I. can already do a good enough job handling many administrative tasks. Widespread use of chatbots could potentially shift the duties of executive assistants away from rote tasks and toward more strategic problem solving, or replace humans altogether. —Brian Chen, The New York Times, March 29, 2023 |
AI is rife now,
with its failings and its pre-eminence,
but as for the former,
there are many warnings:
like that it is easily mistaken,
its facts are dodgy,
and it gives many explanations
of the same faulty kind;
well then, I think,
the engineers have recreated
the perfect human mind.
Ferdi Wheeler is a South African and retired archivist. He lives in Bloemfontein, a city in the Free State Province. He published in print and online in local magazines. His short stories and poems appeared lately on Litnet and Roekeloos—Plek van die Uitverkorenes. He writes in Afrikaans and English. Examples of his work can be viewed by Googling “Ferdi Wheeler Litnet.” He holds a Masters degree in Communication.