Life WILL Go On

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 On December 20, I wrote my first post for this blog and now this is my 100th post.  Maybe I should celebrate in some way, because I still have you clicking on them.  Whether you read them or not doesn't really matter as much, because I don't know, but I believe most of you do.  And I'm still smoking my pipe, maybe too much according to my wife, but the fact is as I said yesterday I enjoy both my pipes and writing these posts.

I mentioned AI creations yesterday and I just didn't want to get into the dark side of AI, because according to Musk, there IS the dark side.  I could get lost down a rabbit hole from which there is no return.  And yes AI has a dark side, for sure.  But it's just too soon to say where AI could take us.  These posts could all be AI generated.  Even I could be AI!  Every cute hot girl on the Internet could be AI.  A candidate for president could be AI.  Anyone could be AI.  AI could rule the world and make humans obsolete.  Que the Twilight Zone music.  We just don't know.

I'm not tech savvy enough to fear AI.  As they say, ignorance is bliss, and maybe Musk is the most unhappy person in the world!  I jest, of course, but I just don't know enough about AI to be too worried about it.  I won't get any darker.  But yes, AI could write books, perform music, write songs, and create its own artwork.  And there is that 10% chance of AI blowing up the world, both literally and figuratively.  But some say AI has a long way to go, while others, like Musk, thinks AI can exist without humans.  

This is the dark side of AI I didn't want to get into, but when writing about AI, all possibilies exist.  AI can bring smiles or dread.  Take your pick.  But I don't know enough to concern myself with it one way or another.  I'm just disappointed that a lot of hot girls aren't real.  Which brings up a lot of issues I won't get into.  Imagine falling in love with an AI creation!  I'm sure it's happened, many times.  What's worse is that no one who has cares.  

My point is that the possibilities of AI seem to be limitless either for good or evil.  But still, I smoke my pipe, maybe too much, and I know it is real and the tobacco is real.  And probably the risks are real.  But I think too, there might be risks if I don't.  Too much of anything is risky.  I don't have a lot of vices in life, and I think of my pipe as a useful tool for Spiritual meditation, although it's not something I would recommend to most anyone.  I'm not an evangelist for pipe smoking.  In fact, I'm probably not a good evangelist about most anything except life itself.  I thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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