Uh-me? In Kamala Harris’ latest “word salad” faux pas, Vice President attempts to explain artificial intelligence — with VERY confusing results
- Harris was criticized for her comments at a roundtable on AI on Wednesday
- “AI is a bit of a fancy thing.” “First, it’s two letters,” she explained
- It came a day after Harris made a memorable statement on transportation
Vice President Kamala Harris is being ridiculed for her latest embarrassing rhetoric after she made a muddled statement about artificial intelligence.
“AI is a bit of a fancy thing.” First, it’s two letters. It means “artificial intelligence,” Harris said Wednesday at a roundtable meeting of labor and civil rights leaders in Washington DC.
She continued, “It’s about machine learning, and that’s how the machine is taught – and part of the question here is what information goes into the machine, which then determines – and we can then predict if we think about what information.” enter into.” what will then emerge in terms of decisions and opinions that can be made through this process.’
The comments drew criticism from conservatives on Twitter, particularly after a clip of the event was posted to the Republican National Committee’s @RNCResearch account, which quickly took notice of Harris’ faux pas.
“Why is she addressing us like we’re 5 years old?” asked one user.
“AI is a bit of a fancy thing.” First, it’s two letters. It means “artificial intelligence,” Harris said Wednesday at a roundtable meeting of labor and civil rights leaders in Washington DC
This comes a day after the vice president faced similar criticism of her oversimplified statement on transportation at an event with Transport Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday.
“This transportation issue is essentially about making sure people can get where they need to go,” she told a gathering of disability rights advocates. “It is so easy.”
Harris has had a string of similar gaffes lately, and last Friday she awkwardly spat out a “word salad” as she attempted to define “culture” at the Essence Festival in New Orleans.
“Culture is – it’s a reflection of our moment and our time.” Right?’ the Vice President mused.
“And current culture is how we express our feelings about the moment, and we should always find time to express what we’re feeling about the moment,” Harris continued.
“It’s an expression of joy.” Because, you know,” she said, pausing and then bursting out laughing, “it’s coming in the morning.”
She then added, “We need to find ways to also express the way we feel in the moment, simply by having language and a connection to how people experience life.” And I think about it that way, too. ‘
Harris also gained attention for a rambling speech she gave about abortion in February.
“So I think it’s very important, as you’ve heard from so many incredible leaders, that at any point in time, and most certainly at this point in time, we can see the moment that we exist and are present and put it in context. “To understand where we exist in history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past but also to the future,” she said at the time.
While 80-year-old President Joe Biden gets into trouble over verbal stumbling blocks and faux pas, Harris is accused of at times almost nonsense and using cascading subordinate clauses that make her sentences difficult to decipher.
The Daily Show in comparison She turned down Selina Meyer, the fictional character of the HBO show Veep, who had a penchant for using truisms and circular explanations.
In real life, other vice presidents have also been heavily ridiculed for their verbal goofs, as Republican Dan Quayle memorably observed during the administration of George HW Bush.
Biden has already committed to keeping Harris on the 2024 candidacy, though her approval ratings are generally lower than his.
According to FiveThirtyEight.com, Harris had a 51.3 disapproval rating at the end of June, with just 39.2 percent of Americans saying they approve of her.