CONFIDENCE WITHOUT EVIDENCE

Artificial Intelligence

The answer arrived before the question.

Artificial intelligence keeps getting smarter. Fortunately, confidence is still doing most of the work.

Here you’ll find chatbots improvising facts, algorithms making personal decisions, machines learning the wrong lessons, and computers explaining humanity to people who were already confused.

Artificially intelligent. Naturally questionable.

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Artificial Intelligence Cartoons

Six examples of machines thinking faster, answering sooner, and understanding almost none of it.

Artificial intelligence traffic system operating above an out-of-service pedestrian crossing button.

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Artificial Common Sense Still Missing

The city installed artificial intelligence. Common sense remains on back order.

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Man asking an AI assistant to write a quick email while the robot produces an overly complicated draft.

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AI Assistant Needs More Help

A helper that needs help understanding what helping means.

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Presenter defining an algorithm while a computer character dances in a classroom.

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Algorithm Rhythm Explained Simply

A rhythm your computer dances to while solving problems.

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Robot parents suggesting they turn off a chatbot child during a tantrum.

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AI Chatbot Kids Reboot Tantrums

Parenting advice now comes with an off switch.

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Two chatbot robots getting married while an officiant asks whether they will remain online or offline.

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Chatbot Relationship Status Explained

In sickness and in health, online or off.

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Two robots attempting to synchronize shared memories before another software update.

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Shared Memory Means Nobody Remembers

Everybody synced. Nobody remembers.

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