Keeping Up

The blooms of a Sandpaper Tree

I’m playing with AI. It’s fun, and useful. For the last several weeks, I’ve used AI to check this blog for “grammar, spelling, and usage.” It’s great at catching spelling errors, and is liberal with the use of commas. It has an odd affinity for the em dash, however, the sort of pause that I let a comma handle. After review, I’m presented with edited copy and a list of changes. I accept or reject the proposed changes, and we’re off. It’s a nice backup.

Yesterday, I asked the AI within an app to create a logo for me. It did. With lots of options. It was hard to get it to implement changes, however, because I didn’t really know how it understood the elements it was presenting, and thus how to instruct it in the changes I wanted. I suspect if I were using the paid version, I might get a more powerful mind, but at the moment I’m in testing mode and unwilling to pay for the experience.

In the end, I have to say that AI is here to stay, and if I were still in the workforce, I can think of several places where I would have put it to good use. For instance, it seems an obvious tool for publishing, which is what I’m doing. For me, personally, having been involved with computers since the day of the command line, I’m excited to be around for this big step. I like feeling as though I’m moving at the speed of light, and keeping up with the world.