April 13, 2023 general

I have been curious about AI (artificial intelligence) being used to write articles (and term papers!). So, just for fun, I thought I’d give it a try on a topic of general interest but where no great harm would be done if the robot got the info wrong. (E.g. I wouldn’t ask a bot for help with D.I.Y. brain surgery!) Except for italic text, the following blog was written by Microsoft’s Bing AI. Since we’ve just been through the seasons of chocolate hearts and chocolate bunnies, I picked this subject. I started by asking the benefits. AI automatically added the link.

Chocolate has several health benefits. It contains flavanols like epicatechin and catechin, as well as anthocyanins and phenolic acids which help protect your cells from inflammation, improve your brain function, and boost your immune and cardiovascular health¹.

Some of the benefits of eating chocolate include:

• TASTES GOOD
• Lowering cholesterol levels
• Preventing cognitive decline
• Reducing the risk of cardiovascular problems
• Appetite control
• Improved memory
• Mood elevation
• Treating cough and cold
• Smooth functioning of the nervous system
• Stress relief
• Improved vision
• Increased energy
• Protecting against sunburn
• Curing diarrhea

MW: I believe that some of the benefit of chocolate comes from the magnesium it contains. Knowing that there had been some recent news about contamination in dark chocolate, I asked a separate AI question about that and it came up with these two links but no wraparound thoughts of its own:

• A test of dark chocolate found traces of lead and cadmium. Do you need to give it up? | CBC News
• Your Easter candy may be contaminated. Heavy metals found in most dark chocolate brands. (yahoo.com)

MW: Well, this was fun and it did save a little time. Sadly, I must use that time to see if I can gain some control of my emails. (After getting my Outlook reinstalled by tech support, it immediately downloaded 3,340! emails that apparently backed up on the server while the program was not working. I can easily delete half, but will have to at least look at them to decide that.)