By Stabroek News

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If there’s one thing Melika Williams, an entrepreneur and agricultural science teacher in Berbice, wishes her customers would recognise, it’s that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not real. While it might make their task easier in terms of finding designs, she said, it makes hers overwhelmingly difficult as it is impossible for her, or anyone else for that matter, to match the perfection portrayed by AI designs.

She noted that AI makes everything seem too perfect and smooth, and it becomes challenging when customers make extraordinary requests based on their prompts in AI. This, for Williams, has been a growing challenge to her side business, Melly’s Sweet Treats, which she started out of her kitchen during the COVID-19 period of lockdown and reduced activity. It’s also something she has to cope with in the school system, and hence why she says that AI is just not her thing. “Being a young businesswoman can be challenging at times. For one, pleasing all of your customers,” the 29-year-old said in an interview with Stabroek Weekend.