AI

Yeah, I'm trying to be topical but hear me out for a second.

Everything is AI.

AI images, AI videos, AI chatbots, AI writing assistants …

(Not on your life. I’ll prompt some funny images for the posts, but every word is biologically generated.)

… AI search engines, AI gumball machines, probably AI stuffed animals. Kinda like organic and anti-inflammatory, it doesn’t take much to slap on the label. But nonsense aside, AI is having a tangible, tectonic effect on our lives.

It brings me to this morning. I was sitting there on a Zoom meeting watching all the faces watch all the faces when I noticed a new button up top. “AI assistant.” Wut? I wondered silently while maintaining my poker (zoom?) face. I couldn’t imagine. What could that button possibly do? Does it make that paperclip guy from MS word appear with a dysfunctional help menu? Does it alter my voice? DOES IT SPEAK FOR ME? Maybe it deepfakes my camera into some heart-pounding

Jason Vorhees shit.

So many possibilities and I really wanted to click that button, but the meeting was moving fast and of a more serious nature than usual. Any sort of distraction could’ve tainted the situation. So I sat there, in fear and wonder, and kept my click where it belongs.

I’m still thinking about it, though. I suspect it’s going to be a huge disappointment like a lot of AI branded stuff. But maybe, just maybe, Zoom meetings are about to be a lot more fun.