“Isn’t that cheating?” asked Uncle Trevor as I triumphantly identified a willow warbler using an app on my phone on a recent family trip to the Isle of Arran.
He has a point. The artificial intelligence-powered Merlin app has revolutionised the way I bird watch. You hold your phone up, and within seconds, it will pick up and identify the song of pretty much any bird you can hear with staggering accuracy.
It has also changed how I feel about AI. You could call it my “Merlin moment” — the benefits the app has unlocked has made me feel more positive about the other life-enhancing possibilities AI could bring in the future, rather than fearing that the robots are coming for our jobs.
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