How bots ruined everything: from Drake to diets
by Stuart Heritage from Technology | The Guardian on (#1ZTDT)
Whether you're struggling to get gig tickets or being fat-shamed by an app - AI is calling the shots. Weren't these algorithms supposed to be on our side, not making thing worse?
Remember when artificial intelligence was supposed to be a good thing? When we thought we would, in our old age, each be tended to by a personalised robotic nurse? When we thought that all our jobs would be made obsolete, allowing us to live lives of unbroken leisure?
That glorious future might still be on the horizon, but for now AI is rubbish. We live in a world where stupid robots and gormless algorithms are incompetently conspiring to make our lives much more difficult than they need to be. Just look at how much we're suffering at the hands of these terrible things.
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