LETTER: Complexity of simple questions for banks’ bots show up AI

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Artificial Intelligence seems to be the flavour of the month. Before he died British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author Steven Hawkins claimed it was a threat to humanity and urged governments to do more in controlling it.

Around the same time my bank said it had sent me a new credit card. It didn’t arrive. When I asked the bank’s chatbot where it was, it replied “Your question is too complicated, can you rephrase it?” I found it eventually in a drawer at my branch.Bernard Benson

 

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