I’m sure you’ve all heard about curiosity and the cat by now. This morning I was reminded of that when I woke up to an ad about turning music into videos and I wanted to try it out. I loaded up my computer, downloaded an audio file, and uploaded it. Now we’re waiting on the results.
My biggest issue is I read nothing before doing it. We are living in a brave new world and it can be scary. We have so many early questions that have to be answered. Like what does AI generation mean for copywrite law and how many of these AI tool sites are scammers in disguise.
It feels like we are both nearing the culling period of a new technology and still in the boom times. The hill is being crested, and we’re almost their, but not quite, and until we are we’re going to see more and more little specialized tools pop up. Actually we probably won’t see most of them.
Think about a few years ago when everywhere was offering a chicken sandwich. It was a boom out of control and it never really busted. It quietly faded back to normal. Same with frozen yogurt before. All of a sudden every shopping center had a frozen yogurt place and then suddenly they were gone.
That is what AI is going to be like. It is everywhere and feels like it is going to change the world. Average people are playing with LLM’s on their Facebook feeds and it feels like it is moving into acceptance as part of our daily lives, but does one company become the Google or Facebook of AI or does it fade back into the background and stay specialized?
I have used it to do some interesting things. The most interesting is cooking with it. It has helped me improve in small and subtle ways. It feels like its nature has having access to information with me as the filter has allowed me to gain some forbidden knowledge. The things they don’t tell you on the cooking shows. I had a pretty good base, but it has made me better and it is interesting what it can do with a picture of some food in a pan.
That is the thing about curiosity. It can lead us to great discoveries or we can find ourselves flying too close to the sun before we even realize we took off.
David Huzzard Writes 