AI technology is not dark magic, it's just misunderstood

Most forms of technology applications are well understood. Every computer programme can be deconstructed into the basic building blocks of code, and if it goes wrong, you can debug the software – often by simply stepping through the code line by line in order to find out where the problem lies. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is different. With the latest AI large language models we can't predict exactly what it will output, but it will do a good job at writing an article or creating poetry. What makes them human-like is the lack of predictable outcomes – humans simply aren't predictable!