
Artificial Intelligence vs Human Intelligence We all have views on AI, usually polarised, and I have to admit when confronted with a chatbot mine becomes very polarised, especially when I have to "ask" three times to contact a human being. Of course the problem here is that the software involved is usually as cheap as possible and the bot only "understands" what is programmed in to it. However, as ever the overall situation is not black and white, and there is some extremely sophisticated and useful AI which we use happily without even thinking about it. From a birder's point of view using photo processing software gives a whole new dimension, not only to what I've just taken, but more importantly, to those poor shots which I took on slide film, such as Slender-billed Curlew, and a completely black (silhouetted) Parrot which I took years ago. In the eyes of a photographer it may be cheating, but I've always been a birder with a camera, so I don'...