As I’ve posted in the past, I get my fair share of odd emails. Today’s example might be weirdest yet. Apparently somebody thought this’d be a great site for someone to contribute an article on pulmonary hemorrhage’s in horses. I say it was ‘someone’, but I’m sure it was a very confused computer algorithm that was spamming me. In its defense I have written about horses, blood and breathplay, which do all kind of relate to the topic of bleeding in a horse’s lung. But probably not in a way that my spammers customers are looking for.
Of course in writing this post, I’m probably just going to encourage the algorithm to continue think I’m a horse related blog. Hopefully this ladies mount isn’t suffering from anything pulmonary or otherwise.
I found this on the mrunderheel twitter feed.
I should like to avoid pulmonary hemorrhage but my heart rate climbed just a little, as I thought about the accompanying photograph …
I know. It definitely caused a hitch in my breathing and an increase in my heart rate. If I’m honest, I saw this image first, and then the email turning up just gave me the perfect excuse for a post featuring it…
-paltego
This makes me feel that we as yet have little to fear from the more extreme predictions regarding AI…
That’s certainly true if the people behind this particular algorithm are anything to go by. I suspect that the AI engineers at places like Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. are probably doing a better (and potentially scarier) job than my spammers. Although even then, I think there are more pressing issues to worry about in the world right now than Siri trying to get the nuclear launch codes!
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-paltego