to the editor: I totally agree with guest contributor Moti Mizrahi (“The real danger of AI is treating it like a human being” March 19).
He writes: “Today's chatbots are designed to imitate us. They speak in the first person, respond with empathetic phrases, and adjust their tone to match ours… But none of this indicates personality, awareness, or even understanding.”
Here's a simple test I use to determine if an AI app has human-like intelligence: Can it come up with an original joke that's actually funny? I've asked my favorite AI app, Perplexity, to do this several times, and the resulting jokes have never been funny. Not once. I read the jokes to others and they respond with puzzled looks.
Mizrahi concludes: “It is a tool, even useful, but fundamentally limited… AI is not a person. It does not think, care or understand.” I totally agree.
Spike Kaplansky, Sherman Oaks
