{"id":9507,"date":"2023-04-03T07:37:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T05:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/03\/was-i-wrong-to-be-so-bullish-about-ai-brief-letters\/"},"modified":"2023-04-03T07:37:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T05:37:20","slug":"was-i-wrong-to-be-so-bullish-about-ai-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/03\/was-i-wrong-to-be-so-bullish-about-ai-brief-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Was I wrong to be so bullish about AI? | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AI and cows | AI-free letters | Sizing up black holes | Stately homes | E-scooter exposure<\/p>\n<p>We are currently hearing a lot about AI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2023\/mar\/31\/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt\" title=\"\">This gung-ho government says we have nothing to fear from AI. Are you scared yet?, 31 March<\/a>). As a former dairy farmer, I thought the AI man was the chap who visited on request to artificially inseminate our cows to get them in calf. With the current use of the initials meaning something rather different, I now wonder what he was actually doing.<br \/><strong>Kevin Caveney<\/strong><br \/><em>Glastonbury, Somerset<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 In the fiercely competitive world of Guardian letter writers, will the letters editor spike submissions judged to have used AI (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/mar\/29\/elon-musk-joins-call-for-pause-in-creation-of-giant-ai-digital-minds\" title=\"\">Elon Musk joins call for pause in creation of giant AI \u2018digital minds\u2019, 29 March<\/a>)? I confirm I haven\u2019t used AI to pen this epistle.<br \/><strong>Sam White<\/strong><br \/><em>Lewes, East Sussex<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/apr\/02\/was-i-wrong-to-be-so-bullish-about-ai\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/68e8397b1e6040aeba4fdae2fe7308d7290a9743\/0_179_5370_3222\/master\/5370.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2c20da24d268ff00fa1e627a7484e16d\" title=\"Was I wrong to be so bullish about AI? | Brief letters\" \/>AI and cows | AI-free letters | Sizing up black holes | Stately homes | E-scooter exposure<br \/>\nWe are currently hearing a lot about AI (This gung-ho government says we have nothing to fear from AI. Are you scared yet?, 31 March). As a former dairy farmer, I thought the AI man was the chap who visited on request to artificially inseminate our cows to get them in calf. With the current use of the initials meaning something rather different, I now wonder what he was actually doing.Kevin CaveneyGlastonbury, Somerset<br \/>\n\u2022 In the fiercely competitive world of Guardian letter writers, will the letters editor spike submissions judged to have used AI (Elon Musk joins call for pause in creation of giant AI \u2018digital minds\u2019, 29 March)? I confirm I haven\u2019t used AI to pen this epistle.Sam WhiteLewes, East Sussex Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI and cows | AI-free letters | Sizing up black holes | Stately homes | E-scooter exposure We are currently hearing a lot about AI (This gung-ho government says we have nothing to fear from AI. Are you scared yet?, 31 March). As a former dairy farmer, I thought the AI man was the chap &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/03\/was-i-wrong-to-be-so-bullish-about-ai-brief-letters\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Was I wrong to be so bullish about AI? | Brief letters<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}