I’m not a fan of Artificial Intelligence which includes its ancestor, Autocorrect.
More times than I would care to admit I have sent a nonsensical text due to Autocorrect’s decision making.
For example, today I was texting an old friend about my shop and the tools that were in it. At the conclusion, I intended to write “ and Bridget is getting into pottery, so we have a kiln out there too.” Instead I was autocorrected from the word pottery, to the word “potty.” Of course I didn’t catch the error before sending it.
You see, I don’t really need any help when it comes to making gigantic errors with technology. When I was working within the College of Business at a university, a professor once sent a group email that tried to compare our academic curriculum to “dry land swimming” and used a military example of it. I responded to a friend saying “ I think someone has been dry land diving.” A month later, in a meeting, the dry land diving professor turned to me said “And you said I have been dry land diving.” My friend was sitting next to me and I immediately turned to him saying, “You told him that!” My friend then informed me that I hit “reply all” on my response which included about thirty professors.
However, honestly, now I think a lot of the world has gone dry land diving with technology. I read that a substantial percentage of males and many females have engaged in a romantic relationship with a Chatbot. They feel accepted and it cures their loneliness. People are spending a lot of time, everyday, engaging in their AI relationship.
I am not a fan of any of this, but if I did have an AI girlfriend, she’d probably be into potty.
“Come here you big handsome stud. You wanna watch me go potty?”
“No, for the last time. It was an Autocorrect mistake!!!”
Another Picture On The Wall 
Great subject! I’ve had issues with autocorrect longer than I can remember. My son and I text each other and have both had to apologize or explain what we meant. I just watched a discussion on hyperconnevtivity and the crisis it’s causing so I’ve made a few changes to get back to the real world.
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It really is not all that funny of a situation (which is often the case with my humor). It is rapidly taking us into a world where the biological is being replaced with the digital. We have an entire generation that has faced forced social isolation due to the pandemic, many of them have also experienced environmental disasters. Now technology is the cannibalistic witch threatening our modern day Hansels and Gretels who were abandoned in the woods during a famine. An excellent book about some of this is “The Anxious Generation.” Still, I am shocked at the raw numbers of young adults becoming attached to their AI significant others.
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That talk included a person who is an expert in the area of human disconnect and ways to connect with others, addressing the incomprehensible loneliness that younger people are experiencing.
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Ha, yes! Not all moves are progressive. 😉 Another thing is that where our mistakes were often forgotten and forgiven ‘back in the day,’ now the internet doesn’t do either.
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In many ways, there is nothing funny about it. This technology of constantly available recording devices combined with nearly instantaneous access to global networks of social media is a heavy burden on our children and their developing personalities and psyches. Add in high tech’s psychological advantages in developing an addiction to socially isolating activities which now can be supported with digital relationships with AI characters and you got yourself a real potty situation…. Maybe some day in the not too far future, people will not garden in real dirt instead spending their time interacting with some kind of a gardening simulator, they’ll call it the Garden of Eden.
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Doesn’t sound fulfilling to me! 😉
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