Confessions of an AI Fanboy: How artificial intelligence amazes and dazes, dazzles and frazzles

Tag: life

  • AI has invaded the grocery store! (Well, the magazine rack, anyway…)

    You can see why it caught my eye…

    I haven’t wrestled with whether to buy a magazine THAT much in a long, long time.

    Any fellow magazine fans know how things have evolved/splintered into countless categories – from self-help to a wide array of lifestyle, sports, etc. etc. (and many have gone up in price – all those $14.99 “special editions!).

    (Side note: Why is it so HARD to buy and read these special editions digitally? I do like having something fresh and trendy for the coffee table, on occasion, but..!!??)

    By the way, speaking of old-fashioned paper, in recent months, I’ve picked up some cool AI-focused volumes – often NOT the stuff you read in the daily tide of newsletters and article posts – from Time Magazine, Scientific American, The Street and now…. “How to Hack Your Life with ChatGPT,” from McClatchy Lifestyle & Entertainment.

    (I LOVE the weekly tech magazine I get on my Nook, called Tech News Life. But oy, the Masthead, with dead links and email addresses, recently took me down a weird rabbit hole. I was assisted by the folks at the great magazine/newspaper app I have, Magzter. Highly recommended!)

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  • AI is just begging for fun-ish analogies, so let’s think of it as … plastic magic!

    AI is just begging for fun-ish analogies, so let’s think of it as … plastic magic!

    Remember this great scene from The Graduate?

    One magic word for this young man’s future: ‘Plastics.’

    Funny at the time, now not so much, as we just learned that we’ve been chugging liquid tinged with ‘forever chemicals’ from plastic water bottles into our brain and bloodstreams for decades.

    NOW ya tell us! “A wee bit too late, bucko.”

    BUT… and there’s always a but. (One ‘t’ or two? Heh;-)

    Look at what you’re typing on, your monitor, your lamp, your TV.

    Plastics! Good luck escaping those magic materials.

    It’s still insinuated itself into every part of our lives. For better and … not so much. We really don’t know where this will lead, or how we’d live without it, or if we can keep living with it, because of its still-unknown impacts on us.

    So… get the first AI analogy yet?

    OK, here’s the other part of the two-pronged thoughts I had fun postulating about with a couple of colleagues today.

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  • You’ve already met your AI-driven best friend/ worst enemy. You can call him Al

    When I say “Everything Reminds Me of a Song,” it’s true. And would love to see someone (picture the producers from The Producers) turn that into not just a song… but a musical! It could go anywhere.

    But I digress. Boy… do I digress….

    So amid My “Real Work” today, a familiar thought from the edges of my noggin finally presented itself, as a word-play kind of guy.

    Ever watch one YouTube video around 8 p.m. – and the next thing you know, it’s midnight?

    Where the heck did that time go?

    You can blame Al. In the right or wrong typeface, AI and Al look soooo alike!)

    In this case we’re talking the guy known as Al Go Rhythm. (Sure, algorithm, but bear with me.)

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