You know, many people have said to me,

Hot Gandolf, why is it that in spite of your deep insight

and your smoldering good looks,

you've never really covered the subject of artificial intelligence?

And usually I've responded by simply checking their fake ID

to make sure they're pretending to be over 18

and then inviting them back to my hotel room.

But the truth is, I haven't talked about this subject a lot,

because up until recently, I thought artificial intelligence

was just a way of describing someone

with an Ivy League education.

But now, my team of crack researchers have stopped researching crack and discovered that no, in fact, artificial intelligence is some sort of computer gizmo that can imitate human intelligence so successfully it can deliver completely self-certain

answers to complex questions while possessing no actual information or wisdom whatsoever,

exactly as if it had an Ivy League education. Now, many people fear

that AI could become so powerful it will endanger mankind. Luckily, billionaire Elon Musk has a plan to protect our species by melding human

intelligence with computers and then installing the resulting hybrid in a humanoid robot

which will travel back in time to assassinate the mother of a

resistance leader so that machines can take over the planet. Frankly that doesn't

sound like such a great plan to me but what did you expect from a guy who changed

the name of Twitter to X, so no one knows what to call a tweet anymore.

So far, however, the problems created by AI have been on a smaller scale.

For instance, AI has made it possible for you to take revenge on a girl who refused to go out

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