Ryan's What?

It’s important to remember that the A in AI stands for Artificial. It could also stand for Approximate when you’re talking about deaf people, I imagine. Because deaf people have been dealing with AI for some time now and it’s probably left them wondering what the hell is wrong with all of us crazy hearing people. Take, for instance, the kind of captioning that converts speech into text. I assume that that's a form of AI. But any human that did as poor of a job as that thing sometimes does would be fired. I saw a video tape of part of a play that I wrote that was performed recently. The video was captioned so that deaf people could understand what was being said. They must have used some glitchy thingamajig that converts voice to text to make the captions because, according to the captioning, one of my characters suddenly said to the others, "Are you gay?” I don’t know what line I actually wrote for her to say, but it sure as hell wasn’t, “Are you gay?” But I don’t blame any deaf person who sees that video if they wonder what the hell is wrong with me. And there was that time when I was watching a baseball game on television and one of those analysis shows came on after. I had the captioning on because I don’t know how to shut it off. One of the hosts was a former player whose name is Ryan Sweeney. And the captioning said that his name was Ryan’s Weenie. And I don’t blame any deaf person who saw that video if they wondered what the hell was wrong with that guy’s parents. But that’s how AI is. Like I said, it stands for Artificial Intelligence, which means it is an oxymoron. It cannot deduce or apply logic. It repeats what it thought it heard a human say. (Please support Smart Ass Cripple and help us keep going. Just click below to contribute.) https://www.paypal.me/smartasscripple?fbclid=IwAR2qrql-UFH19OepgeaCG4WmblyNylb27k2q8eYxXHH