AI Shot My Patience

I have been arguing with my computer lately. And losing. I’m not sure how I feel about the losses.

Life is this weird middle ground suddenly where when I was a kid we were trying to learn this fancy machine that could do play Oregon Trail on a floppy disk and there was word processing, but we still didn’t quite understand the whole implications of where the new tech would be taking us. So many years later now I’m still learning how to interact with these machines, but focusing more on AI and how to write a prompt that is effective so I can get even more done at work and look like a superstar to some one looking for a way to improve how they are reaching out to businesses.

The current models are ramping the use of AI, and it isn’t just using it to ask a basic question, but being able to use the processing to do larger scale searches, while refining the information it is returning so you can get something useful from it and not just a data dump. I’ll be honest, my favorite prompts right now for descriptors always start with, explain like I’m 10.. And learning today that you should tell the prompt to ask at least 10 questions to be able to refine the process? I needed a support brownie for all the time I’ve wasted not doing that.

I am simultaneously impressed and horrified at how much information can be found about any one person with a basic search of socials. And while I have long since been scaling those back, the urge to duck when the Street View car rolled by the other day as I was walking Bear just to try and keep one more image of myself off the web actually froze me in place for long seconds. Luckily I had on a hat, sunglasses and was wearing pink even if it wasn’t a Wednesday, so I may have been more or less unrecognizable, but it was enough to make me stop.

I need to learn how to do these things so I can continue to keep this poor spoiled dog in kibble. In fact I have been taking more classes and webinars to try and expand my knowledge, but invariably my attention drifts and while people are expounding the newest cool toy that will give exponential opportunity to everyone that just ‘gets’ it, I am cuddling my pooch while he tells me how he hasn’t eaten in at least an hour and will expire from lack of nutrition. Nine times out of 10 I don’t believe him, but he’s always hedging his bets on the 10th.

Bear and I are settling into a rhythm, but his separation anxiety isn’t getting better. I had a sales man over to give me some information on getting the rest of my windows updated and we had to leave Bear in his kennel while we walked the house. This pooch yowled and worked himself into a tizzy. He will be wicked cranky tomorrow when I go to get a hair cut, but I cannot put it off any longer and he is going to have to get over it. And he and I will continue to work on it. So that hopefully he won’t be as bad by the next hair cut.