A.I. ● Computers ● Trust ● Series: The Rest of the Universe

How Many Australian Minutes is 15 American Minutes?

A.I. has plenty of Artificial, not so much Intelligence

This image was one of the options generated from the prompt “Create a picture that shows the difference between an American minute and an Australian minute” using Microsoft Copilot (formerly Bing AI Chat), which in turn is built on top of OpenAI’s GPT-4 and integrated with DALL-E 3.

The other day, I asked Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant-that-lives-inside-of-a-hockey-puck to set a timer for fifteen minutes, a rather benign task. Then, as a…