Articles in the AI category

1. My Brief Experience with AI

   My initial foray into AI was in 2025. I wanted it to suggest suitable software to plot the curves I needed for my blogs. That was when I first became aware of the strengths and weaknesses both of AI in general and of different AIs in particular.

   In this blog, I chronicle my adventures in AI-land. I recount in detail five specific examples in the use of AI, and the experiences that unfolded. Later, I distil the generic lessons that I have learned so that other users might benefit. I conclude by quoting a paper that points out the dangers of emotional entanglement with an AI, especially by the young.

2. YouTube and the Trust Deficit

   YouTube is awash with slick videos that offer seemingly authoritative advice on health, wealth, current affairs, and many other aspects of life. But if you were to look behind the curtain, all you would see is smoke and mirrors—not human experts. There is an uncanny resemblance to the revelatory scene in the movie, The Wizard of Oz. This is especially annoying and alarming, and is typical of the devaluation of truth that we are currently experiencing. And I think that AI, in collusion with human frailty and fallibility, has facilitated this trust deficit.