This site can verify that there was once a secretary in this country who called “Clippy” her boyfriend. (“Clippy” is that annoying AF paper-clip thing that Microsoft Word puts in assuming that you’re too stupid to do your own work.) She said that it smiled at her, was always helpful, would go away when she wanted to be left alone, all those things real boyfriends didn’t do. The entire reason it was hilarious is that she was just kidding about “someone” that doesn’t exist, just an extremely dumb AI program.

Lara Trump wants to break-up with Clippy, like – now, because, unlike that great secretary, Lara believes there is a real person controlling “clippy,” she’s angry that he’s too woke, and she’s tired of him (or her) reading her stuff. Maybe Lara will feel better when she learns that, just like her, Clippy can’t read.

According to Salon, Lara Lee threw a fit about this woke person reading what she’s writing.

“Someone is reading this?! And assessing what I’m writing?” Trump said, assuming that a person was actually watching and reading what she was typing in Word instead of an AI programed into what they call “office assistant.

“The checker can be turned on and off in a menu called ‘Grammar & Refinements’, which lists everything it checks: Age bias, Cultural bias, Ethnic slurs, Gender bias, Gender-Neutral Pronouns, Gender-Specific Language, Racial Bias, Sexual Orientation Bias and Socioeconomic Bias,”

We also assume that it can switch countries, so that when one is in Canada MSWord knows how to spell “centre” and “defence” correctly.

AI could develop into a huge problem, one that could – theoretically, destroy humanity. What happens when artificial intelligence reaches a level of intelligence, such that it is not only smarter than people, but smart enough to know how to get smarter, much much faster, doubling its intelligence at almost at the speed of light. It is what AI people call “the singularity” with both fear and excitement.

It is entirely possible that some engineer at MIT who works on AI, will turn on his computer one morning and realize that his computer controls the lights in a factory in China, the entirety of the United States Defense Department and everything else hooked into a grid.

It is something to worry about. What we will never have to worry about is Lara Lee Trump obtaining any intelligence or controlling anything in the world. She may be someone who might benefit from some artificial intelligence. She also has some complaints about her car, but we’re not sure how she finds her car in the morning or ever learned how to drive and thus consider those comments less relevant.

Yes, that was actually on television.

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