A.I. for Beginners

OK, I grant you, machines can play chess.
Translate words? The answer’s yes.

Want to crack a code in World War 2?
Turing’s machine had the answer for you.

Diagnose patients? Piece of cake.
A computer never makes a mistake.

Take out an appendix? Sure. No sweat.
A robot’s the best surgeon you can get.

Problem solving? Right up their street.
Thirty seconds, voila, homework complete.

Making art? Are we wasting our time -
machines can write ‘poems’ that scan and rhyme,

computers can ‘paint’ or ‘make up a tune’?
Don’t get carried away too soon!

A.I.’s the future. But we will remain
as long as they can’t match the human brain.