AI now writing horoscopes?

If today’s horoscope is any indication, AI can’t quite replace human writers quite yet. Witness the scattershot list of purportedly flattering adjectives describing today’s birthday baby in the Sun’s Astrology column. Concise? maybe… Aggressive… well, okay; sadly, these days that seems to be something that many aspire to… And being labelled passionate is unlikely to raise any ire.

But sumptuous? To include that in the list demonstrates that AI still has serious work to do on usage issues.

And precocious? Seems artificial intelligence has not yet gleaned any sense of the audience they’re writing for either. After all, the people who pore over horoscopes are not primarily six- to ten-year-olds. Who else would want to be called precocious?

Not to mention that there’s something deeply odd—some might even say disturbing—about the juxtaposition of AI and horoscopes. It seems that AI has yet to figure out irony. Perhaps it’s just a matter of time — like the monkeys with the typewriters.