Was I wrong to be so bullish about AI? | Brief letters

AI and cows | AI-free letters | Sizing up black holes | Stately homes | E-scooter exposure

We are currently hearing a lot about AI (This gung-ho government says we have nothing to fear from AI. Are you scared yet?, 31 March). As a former dairy farmer, I thought the AI man was the chap who visited on request to artificially inseminate our cows to get them in calf. With the current use of the initials meaning something rather different, I now wonder what he was actually doing.
Kevin Caveney
Glastonbury, Somerset

• In the fiercely competitive world of Guardian letter writers, will the letters editor spike submissions judged to have used AI (Elon Musk joins call for pause in creation of giant AI ‘digital minds’, 29 March)? I confirm I haven’t used AI to pen this epistle.
Sam White
Lewes, East Sussex

• To help those of us who have difficulty comprehending these things, you could usefully have told us how many Waleses might fit into the black hole (Ultramassive black hole discovered by UK astronomers, 29 March).
Jim Golcher
Towcester, Northamptonshire

• It would perhaps assist Gerald Wells (Letters, 31 March) if so-called stately homes were given the more illuminative description of mansions of exploitation.
George Marshall
St Leonards, East Sussex

• How many of the enthusiasts for e-scooters to reduce car use will eventually realise that even a late running, poorly maintained and crowded bus is still a lot better at keeping the rain off (E-scooters: a tale of two cities as London and Paris plot different paths, 31 March)?
Geoff Reid
Bradford

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