AI can wipe us out – so why can’t it do Guardian cryptic crosswords? | Brief letters
Readers write in to the Guardian’s Brief letters column, noting that while artificial intelligence is portrayed as capable of catastrophic outcomes, it still struggles with tasks like solving the paper’s cryptic crosswords. The letters also touch on topics ranging from former President Trump’s legal judgments and garden clothing choices to literary deaths, tautological expressions and the quirky phenomenon of nominative determinism.