The Bee in the Blog

When I first heard about ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion, and the other generative artificial intelligence tools lighting up the internet, a part of me felt betrayed.

After years of struggling to articulate my thoughts, to find the answers to indecipherable questions, here suddenly was this panacea. What once took minutes, hours, even years of crafting could now be done in a few clicks. Of course, in the ever evolving world of technology, it is difficult to say in certain terms the value or detriment the latest fad will cause. But AI is spooky.

AI is also extraordinarily useful. Space — that final frontier I long to explore — will forever be unreachable without AI. Our phones and our homes are imbued with it, more than many of us would realize or care to admit. And, despite my misgivings, I have come to use AI almost every day.

Writing these words feels a little like waxing philosophic while trying to surf the Drake Passage. On the one hand, it is a thrill to have new ways to create and innovate in my day to day life. On the other, it is ludicrous to imagine that this Pandora’s box will not come back to haunt us in some way.

In the meantime, though, I might as well have a little fun with it.