Beware not-so-smart artificial intelligence: ‘It looks very coherent. It’s almost true. But it’s often wrong.’

The tech industry’s latest artificial intelligence constructs can be pretty convincing if you ask them what it feels like to be a sentient computer, or maybe just a dinosaur or squirrel. But they’re not so good — and sometimes dangerously bad — at handling other seemingly straightforward tasks. Let’s take a look.