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The origins of AI date back to the 1950s, but it is only in recent years, with the amassing of huge volumes of data and the development of ever more powerful computers, that AI has gotten to the point where it can be as useful in the home as in the laboratory.

 

These are just a few examples of how AI has been used here in our own community in Ayrfield:

• To provide instructions and advice about how things work

• To edit photographs—taking seconds to do what might otherwise take hours.​

• To help someone who had inadvertently flushed a ring down the loo, to discover a way of quickly recovering it (the advice was excellent, and the ring was recovered).

• To quickly learn how to solve IT problems (e.g. how to use new software).

• Even for finding  a good nearby vantage point for observing an eclipse (Father Collins Park).

 

The list is ever growing.

 

Can AI be trusted?

Quite simply No. While it can be immensely helpful you must always remember that you are not dealing with a human being and it does make mistakes.

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If you have started using AI, whether it is ChatGPT, Google, CoPilot, or whatever, please let us know how it is proving to be a help or even a hindrance, so that we may learn from each other and not make the same mistakes.

Our email address is ayrwaves@gmail.com

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