“Lucy is a gifted communicator, makes occasional gut decisions against logic, and prefers big ideas over details.”
As a description of me, this is pretty good. I have spent my working life communicating, so I jolly well ought to be good at it by now. I have just made a decision in my private life which I know is not only illogical but financially catastrophic, yet I’m doggedly going with my gut. And as for details, unless they suit my argument, I have no fondness for them at all.
Yet what is so disturbing about the above character analysis is that it does not come from someone who knows me; in fact, it doesn’t come from a person at all. It was thrown together in three seconds flat by an algorithm developed by some computer scientists who have worked out how to trawl the internet for all public information about a person and turn it into a potted portrait of a personality.