John Hinkley says artificial intelligence “is a tool – like a piano is to a composer” (Letters, 31 March). I don’t find this a realistic comparison. No matter how many times a pianist uses her piano to compose or to play her own or others’ works on it, the piano will never appear alone on stage, playing its own compositions and taking the pianist’s place. It seems likely that this does not hold for AI within the creative industries.
Jill Wallis
Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire
• A general leaflet from Reform UK soliciting my vote at next month’s county council elections smuggled itself into my abode recently. It grumbles about inadequacies of bin collection. I, sadly, am one of those nerdish types who knows that the county council doesn’t do the bin collection. Maybe if Reform is really serious about running local services then it should recruit more nerds? (This is not a job application.)
Michael Loftus
Kidderminster, Worcestershire
• Much as I like Polly Hudson’s arguments for the “French exit” (7 April), it amuses me that the equivalent expression here is filer à l’anglaise (to leave in the English way), which, much to my chagrin, is considered most impolite.
David Green
Paris, France
• More nominative determinism in the Guardian: the Harris’s hawk that harassed Flamstead was caught by Steve Harris (Report, 3 April). Thus, Harris’s hawk is a Harris’s hawk.
Noel Privett
Whitchurch, Hampshire
• F is for Farage in the cost of living ABC (Letters, 6 April).
Peter Gray
Chesterfield, Derbyshire
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