It was one of the more beautiful days of the summer, or at least this half of the summer today, and I spent most of it on my computer. It wasn’t so bad, I enjoyed what I was doing. It was a long collaborative meeting with loads of activites cooked up over the past years of remote business.
It’s fascinating how technology changes things. From zoom meetings to AI, we’re doing stuff different all the time. Sometime’s it’s better, I guess. Easier, maybe. Now that smart phones and the cloud are basically all there is, things mostly get easier and less annoying. I can’t imagine what it must have been like to have to have gotten an email address. Maybe it’s like having to figure out how to use AI without wanting to kill yourself.
We had some pre-work to do coming up with 6-word stories about the client and their future goals. I did a few myself, three or four, then I went to chat GPT and had it write 100.
They were almost all awful, but if I’m being honest, there were a few lines I brought forward. Chat GPT can be useful, but just not in the way people expect. It’ll brute force out word combinations you might not have thought of just from sheer numbers, but mostly it’ll show you what not to write and how not to think.
I suspect a lot of technology is that way.
Much of what we do as humans, at least on this side of the twentieth century, has less to do with what we can do, than what we ought to do. We have enough food, or most of us do, we have enough warmth, or most of us do, we are productive enough, at least most of us are...And if We’ve got all that, we’ve got to start thinking a bit more critically about why it is we do what we do, if it isn’t for more food, warmth, or love. We can easily get caught in traps of because we can.
It’s fascinating how technology changes things. From zoom meetings to AI, we’re doing stuff different all the time. Sometime’s it’s better, I guess. Easier, maybe. Now that smart phones and the cloud are basically all there is, things mostly get easier and less annoying. I can’t imagine what it must have been like to have to have gotten an email address. Maybe it’s like having to figure out how to use AI without wanting to kill yourself.
We had some pre-work to do coming up with 6-word stories about the client and their future goals. I did a few myself, three or four, then I went to chat GPT and had it write 100.
They were almost all awful, but if I’m being honest, there were a few lines I brought forward. Chat GPT can be useful, but just not in the way people expect. It’ll brute force out word combinations you might not have thought of just from sheer numbers, but mostly it’ll show you what not to write and how not to think.
I suspect a lot of technology is that way.
Much of what we do as humans, at least on this side of the twentieth century, has less to do with what we can do, than what we ought to do. We have enough food, or most of us do, we have enough warmth, or most of us do, we are productive enough, at least most of us are...And if We’ve got all that, we’ve got to start thinking a bit more critically about why it is we do what we do, if it isn’t for more food, warmth, or love. We can easily get caught in traps of because we can.