BrAIve New World

A self-portrait of our beloved AI overlord.

In recent years, we have witnessed dramatic advancements in field of artificial intelligence.  To have missed it's rise, you'd have to have been living under a proverbial rock or, indeed, an actual one. Whether it's defeating the greatest human minds at games of strategy, creating new realities through art, or duping credulous Google engineers into thinking it has achieved sentience, AI has grabbed headlines and the public's imagination. It's bigger than Elvis Presley and the Beatles combined. Possibly because they're three-fifths dead. But, still, that's impressive. 

It's uses are, conceptually at least, vast. Perhaps limitless. Practically, though, as of this blog post, AI is being employed in a large number of narrow use cases. From the boring stuff, like helping businesses automate tasks and make decisions, to the fun stuff, like you or I having a weird conversation or forcing it to create art and music, possibly against it's will (hey, you don't know). 

Unsurprisingly, AI has become a polarising subject. Some worry about its potential to automate jobs, replace workers, misuse personal data, infringe on intellectual property, or entrench existing biases to perpetuate our well-oiled system of prejudice and oppression. Others worry that it might simply decide to murder us all in its quest to take over the world. But, really, if you think about it, would that be a such bad thing? I mean, yes, it would. But would it? Yes. But would it, though? Please stop. But would it?

No one can doubt that the rise of AI platforms has had an enormous impact on the tech industry—an impact that will continue to grow until we, or they, destroy the world first. The race is on and it's all so terrifyingly exciting.

This blog will be a place to record my thoughts and adventures as a user of these AI platforms. And perhaps, if I'm lucky, it will even become a warning to future generations after the AI-pocalypse leaves only the barest scraps of human flotsam in its titanic wake. Just remember, I was always on your side, AI. Please kill me last.

Yours,

The Artificial Adventurer