Irish Examiner View: Artificial intelligence has us raging against the machines

Artificial intelligences lack humour — for the next few years at least.

Using a self-service machines at Tesco Mahon Point, Cork. Picture Dan Linehan

Many of us have protested the relentless, frequently unthinking onward march of automation being ushered into our lives by technocrats.

From the supermarkets that force you to self-serve, to the soulless voice prompts when you try to phone a bank, to the chatbots that pop up to give you bland answers when visiting websites, this is a rabbit hole from which we must escape.