Critical Focus | AI: Artificial, Yes. Intelligent, Not.
THE MICROSCOPE
2018, Volume 66:2, pp. 71–83
DOI
https://doi.org/10.59082/CWDQ4121
AUTHOR
Brian J. Ford
EXCERPT
Why did the microbe cross the microscope? To get to the other slide. We all like jokes in microscopy (you need a sense of humor to work in the field, particularly if you have commercial clients). And what about practical jokes? Here are a couple you might like to try, and they must be high-quality pranks, for they were composed by the most brilliant of minds. First, try putting googly eyes on someone’s computer mouse so that it won’t work. Then you could hide all of the entrance to your office building if it only has one entrance, put food coloring in the mailbox, or glue all the eggs in the hubcaps of someone’s computer. Yes, this is all unmitigated drivel. These jokes make no sense at all, yet they should, for they were all devised by the wonderful brain power that people say is going to surpass us all – artificial intelligence, AI for short.