Arguing With An Algorithm

Send us Fan Mail Arguing With An Algorithm The other day I was all set to fire back at an AI program I'd asked for help. It commented on one of my sentences and said: "It's a strong line rhetorically, but it's not literally true." The problem was . . . it was literally true. Every fact backed it up. I could feel myself reaching for my keyboard, ready to set the record straight with a poison pen email. Then a thought popped into my head that stopped me cold: "You're about to argue with an algo...