Harper’s Weekly Review is keeping up with all our excitement over A.I.:
It was revealed that bots are better than humans at solving CAPTCHA puzzles and that an Iowa school district had used ChatGPT to determine which books to ban. It was reported that Google is working on AI that offers life advice, and an AI-written Microsoft Travel article recommended an Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot. “Consider going into it on an empty stomach,” the AI wrote.
Sure, but none of these items come anywhere close to matching this, from a week ago:
[A]n AI meal-planning app created by a New Zealand supermarket chain generated a recipe that would produce chlorine gas. “Serve chilled and enjoy the refreshing fragrance,” the app said.