I don’t really think AI is really here yet. And from whatever I know/understand, I doubt we’re truly close to it. The current rage of language models must be understood more as a highly advanced form of search and learned regurgitation. The models complete our prompts with the “statistically most likely” completion given their training banks.

That said, not since the early days of rooted Androids and custom-ROMs has new technology excited me as much as AI. I’ve spent inordinately more hours on chatGPT and Midjourney than anyone I know in my personal circles. I’ve long been a wannabe digital artist, and AI has allowed me to bring images to life that I could never have without it. It’s given me a whole new skill and genuine hobby, and when combined with fictional writing it’s a lovely confluence of things I love to immerse in.

ChatGPT has made this entire site possible, as well as my organizational websites that also I run and manage. I’ve used it to acquire a working comptence in web dev with Sveltekit, db integration and auth a la Supabase, and a whole lot of CSS and JS/TS. It’s no exaggeration to say that without chatGPT all of this would not have been possible. Hell, I wouldn’t even have considered it. The possibility itself was opened up by chatGPT’s ability to generate code to precise instructions/briefs.

Speaking of AI, Person of Interest is one of my all-time favorite shows. And I highly recommend it to anyone interested in future plausibilities with AI. There’s a lovely scene towards the end of the show, and I’ll allude to it without spoilers- ‘I have failed you.’ What a moment.

I’m working on a two-parter deep dive into AI. Part 1 of which is here