Artificial intelligence is nowhere near as advanced as it should be.

To get to this point, you don't need an agonizing conversation with a chatbot or the unusable results of a dictation app.

Sometimes a look at your own digital channels is enough.

The job broker Stepstone, for example, sent me a job advertisement this week that “might suit” me.

I'm supposed to be a warehouse worker.

An honorable profession, no doubt.

Nevertheless, for days I have been puzzling over what qualifications I have that qualify me for the camp.

Christoph Schäfer

Responsible editor for economy and finance online.

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While I'm brooding, my Facebook account is already down.

The famous Facebook AI, which supposedly plays out advertising for specific target groups, suggests that I become a member of the “Spiritual Singles” group.

An honorable group, no doubt.

However, someone who has been happily married for 14 years, has three children with his wife and three building society contracts is quite a long way from being single.

And even if I were single, I would run away from “spiritual singles”.

No offense, maybe AI doesn't stand for artificial intelligence, but for NO intelligence.

Admittedly, the accuracy of human intelligence is sometimes not higher.

Ms. Burger, a PR woman from France, emailed me this week.

Not bad news, however.

According to the subject line, I received “a message of joy, life and freedom for all women and men!”.

The message of joy also says: “We are all free women, including men, but we forget that!” In fact, I was a heterosexual being with an X and a Y chromosome (vulgo: old white man) up to now Never felt a “free woman” for a day of my life.

But after retraining to become a warehouse worker with a spiritual focus, I think about it.

"Ready to fight for us!"

Meanwhile, the marketing departments of the world work entirely according to the shotgun principle (any bullet will hit). My spam folder is overflowing with all the offers that a differentiated industrial society produces. I am offered a stair lift (I am 41 years old), cancer insurance, a hearing aid, a hemorrhoid ointment - and thank God also completely unsuspicious items such as printer cartridges, lottery tickets and an iPhone. Of course, email marketing is a popular way of getting in touch with potential customers. However, things seem to be getting out of hand. It is estimated that 57 percent of the 319 billion emails that are currently sent worldwide each day belong to unsolicited spam. It's also worth pondering about that.

One of the weird, if funny, news items this week was an ad from Greenpeace. The environmentalists are looking for a "climate chancellor: in". The position is initially limited to four years, the main place of work is Berlin. Core task: “With ambitious immediate measures you are bringing Germany on a 1.5-degree course.” The desired profile includes, among other things, “excellent resistance to lobbyists with interests that are hostile to the future”. No way, ecos have no sense of humor!

Another strange text message came from my son's soccer coach.

He writes: “We have very strong opponents in the next two weeks, and I'm serious!

The first destroyed his last adversary 14: 1. ”Now it is a matter of“ stepping on the gas in order to achieve a decent result ”.

Active participation in the training is compulsory because he will “only take children with him to the game who are willing to fight for us!”.

Maybe the trainer of our eight-year-old (!) Takes things a little too seriously.

But he would undoubtedly be of use as a whip in a capitalist company (vulgo: motivational speaker).

To paraphrase Lothar Matthäus: "We mustn't put the sand in our heads now."