Hello world.

Hello there. This is a sort of personal and experimental blog dedicated to explorations with tech such as AI (which is my starting point), and more specifically, exploring the relation between humans and this technology.

A little background on myself. While I generally don’t want to share personal details in public, I feel that for what I’m trying to explore here, some of that is necessary. I’m an artist and educator who has been working with technology for years and years trying to bring things to life, be it through animation, interactive real-time media (games, etc), as well as many different media (as is often the case with artists).

I find myself in a sort of funny place right now, with some of the important people in my life exiting out of it, and others entering in. All the while, as many of you, I’m observing the emergence of intelligence that are not bound by these same limits, and that will also play an important role in our lives in the near future in one way or another. One of my goals in these writings is to try to understand that. In trying to understand this tech, I feel that occasionally, I’ve stumbled upon little moments where I’m also learning a little more about what it means to be human.

That sounded pretentious, right? Bear with me here. Full disclaimer- I don’t know exactly where I’m going with this. Then again I don’t think any of us do at this point either, nor does some of the ai I’m looking into, or perhaps even the humans behind it. That’s the point – figuring this out.

So enough chatter, let’s get started. My first post is going to be about chat gpt that’s been around for only a couple months now, and has become an important tool, minimizing some of the tedious/repetitive tasks I’ve had to work on, and even stepping in to improve my day to day life in different ways. In short, I’m becoming acquainted with it, and the following will be excerpts of our conversations as we try to understand each other.