Artificial Intelligence is anything but that at this time, and probably well into the future.
It seems that it can answer questions, fed into it, and parrots it quite well when asked a question about something.
Unfortunately, it still depends on human programming, which like the Centrelink debt program can get situations awfully wrong.
The future of court decisions and other things should never be based on inhuman decisions made by a power hungry calculator.
The education of these machines must remain limited.
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They are after all inhuman.
John Vance. Wangaratta
Loss of irreplaceable tree devastating for community
The destruction of the birthing tree at Northern Beaches is not only devastating for the local Indigenous people, but for the community at large.
The Aboriginal elders in Wangaratta have openly invited us all to walk together, yet it seems that there are individuals who have no intention of accepting the hand of friendship, but wish to harm them and their great cultural heritage which is the heritage of all of us.
Without any background to the event, I wonder whether the fire authorities have overreacted to the fire, and some effort could have been made to keep the tree intact without it becoming a danger to the public.
Can you image what might have been the outrage in Paris if Notre Dame Cathedral, which caught fire some years ago, was allowed to be destroyed rather than the fire be contained?
The significant redgum trees of Wangaratta are of similar age to the medieval cathedrals of Europe and are irreplaceable.
This is not the first occasion that a tree of great cultural heritage has been deliberately destroyed in Wangaratta.
Every effort has to be made to prevent another event with such tragic outcome.
Adrian Twitt, Wangaratta
Destruction of our environment goes on
It saddened me deeply to read in Friday's Chronicle that a 700-year-old great tree was burnt and killed in the Northern Beaches.
What might we say of such senseless violence and destruction?
But what might we say when an 800-year-old tree and 260 other ancient trees are killed for a Western Highway road improvement?
And what might we say when in Tasmania there is a concerted push to once again open up the pristine Tarkine Wilderness Area for logging and mining?
Thousands of trees would be cut down including many 700-year-old and ancient trees.
There is obviously such a deep disconnection to the world of nature by many of us.
And so the destruction of our earth home goes on.
But one day, we human beings will not only realise, but will feel in our hearts, our deep and real connection to the trees, the animals and all the natural world.
And so the destruction will end.
David Rainbow, Myrtleford
