Artificial intelligence has been positioned as a potential solution to many of the world’s problems, and some schools have adopted A.I.-powered security systems that are designed to detect weapons. That includes a middle school in Florida that was recently placed on lockdown over a false alarm that was traced back to a clarinet.
Over the past few years, artificial intelligence has managed to infiltrate countless facets of life under the guise of its ability to outperform humans who would otherwise be tackling the wide variety of tasks it’s used for.
There are certainly plenty of cases where the technology is able to live up to that promise, but it’s a bit hard to argue it’s not overhyped do to the many, many instances where A.I. has been unable to reliably and consistently execute fairly straightforward procedures and doled out objectively dangerous advice to people searching for a solution to a pretty simple problem…