The other day, I asked an AI chatbot to write me an essay about the colour of Schrödinger's cat. I thought that it might have been ginger and white. The AI chatbot gave me a discourse on quantum mechanics and particle physics, without mentioning the cat or a cat experiment. All of the information was gleaned from the web citing Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg and Neils Bohr and the great Schrödinger himself etc. This is all very interesting from a scientific point of view but it did not answer the questions: what was the colour of the cat, did the cat exist at all and are we talking about the right Schrödinder? The chatbot really was brainless and could not see the point of the joke. AI has a long way to go.
There is no doubt that a chatbot could describe a vintage champagne, where it was produced and what it tastes like etc. All this information can be gleaned from the web and reproduced in a grammatically correct essay with all the conjunctions in the right place. What it cannot do is give you a personal opinion of the wine because a robot will never have tasted the wine for itself and experienced its flavour, and it cannot give you an indication of whether you will appreciate its quality or not. You have to be alive to really judge a wine for yourself and you cannot fully rely upon the opinion of others gleaned from hundreds of comments on the web.
All this is why I shall never resort to using chatbots to write about a wine or the wine industry, as for me that would be sacrilege. But buyer beware, there are plenty of intellectually lazy writers about.
