I made this picture with AI…

As promised, today is FRIDAY…which means I am bound to keep my promise to “keep it light,” as we go into the weekend!  It’s time for a Friday Filler! 

As someone who has been on the “bleeding edge of tech” for more than 40 years, I am doing my best not to freak out over the evolution of AI (Artificial Intelligence for those who are still locked into the analog world of pens, paper, and printed communication).

There is a great deal to be “freaked out” about, as it pertains to AI. But, this is FRIDAY, and I don’t want you to spend the weekend doom-scrolling about how AI is using up all of our natural resources, or how AI is being used by the military, or how Musk is using AI to scour the files that he stole from the treasury department. No. Seriously. Don’t do it! It will ruin your weekend.

No, THIS is about how AI can actually HELP you make sense of some of the gibberish that comes through your email, social media, and blog posts (including mine), in a way that will save you time, and make this insanely complex world easier to understand, more quickly (if you trust what AI gives you as a result).

LET’S START WITH A NEW TOOL FROM GOOGLE/GMAIL THAT HELPED ME UNDERSTAND “TRUMP SPEAK!”
AI is already here.  All of the tech oligarchs are scrambling to “own” the territory. The battle is intense, and too complex to break down here.  But, in a recent interview, Jeff Bezos made it clear that he thinks AI is the future, and that he is doing everything to make AI part of the very fabric of mankind…including helping us save the planet! Here are some quotes from a recent interview.

• “AI is a horizontal enabler, like electricity, that will impact EVERY industry. AI is everywhere—it’s a horizontal layer that will touch everything we do.”
  Bezos detailed how Amazon is already leveraging AI across THOUSANDS of applications, from supply chain optimization to customer personalization. This is where he personally spends 95% of his time!
  The bottom line is that according to Jeff, AI isn’t just a business tool—it’s a “civilization-scale technology with the potential to reshape EVERYTHING: economies, societies, and human identity itself.”
• For Bezos, space isn’t an escape plan—it’s an opportunity to preserve Earth.
  He envisions a future where energy-intensive industries are relocated to space, leaving Earth as a pristine, “zoned residential” planet. “There’s no Plan B. Earth is unique, and it must be preserved. The heavy lifting? That happens off-world.”

Uhm…OK. So AI is everywhere…all of the time…and will save humanity from humanity, by emulating humanity, but being smarter than humanity! Yay!

But, what will it do for me today? Can it help me make sense of the world?

There is no more insane, garbled, meandering communication style on earth as trying to decipher something Donny Trump says live, when he is “off prompter,” (when he isn’t reading something someone wrote for him…like a struggling dyslexic 5th grader).  I pity the poor correspondents who have to try and make sense of his speeches and replies in interviews.

However, long-winded, bloviating, meandering, emails, posts, and other social media are almost as tedious to try to assimilate and understand (including my own, as you will see). What are we to do?

THIS NEW FEATURE FROM GMAIL may save you loads of time and trouble, when you have better things to do with your time!

I found it by accident after the last Chrome update (yes…I use Chrome…and so should you). I was reading a long (very long) email thread that included a transcription of one of Donny’s most recent speeches.

These are Donny’s words, from a recent speech about revamping the FAA technology for control towers, after two horrendous crashes in a week…verbatim.

Holyfreakinshirt! What the hell is he trying to say???

Then I saw the icon at the top of the email, it got my attention…and I CLICKED IT!

BOOM!!!!! Just like that, AI Made SENSE of DONNY’S GIBBERISH!

Why didn’t he just say that? (because his early dementia brain doesn’t do “linear thought?) 

This tool works for all sorts of stuff… including making sense of my own post!
Wednesday’s long post about contacting your representatives to stop Musk, also got the AI treatment…

Not bad…but it left out all of the good stuff, like the links to the senators and representatives.

I have also used this tool to break down HUGE text strings from Rotary Club members, friends, and family. It does a pretty darn good job of making sense of stuff, without having to wade through the reams of “thumbs ups” and “Oh yeah? But what about this?” replies.

In short. AI is here to stay, and it can be useful, even if you aren’t trying to save the world, or target a smart bomb!

To paraphrase that great arbitor of wisdom, “Sam I Am” from “Green Eggs and Ham,”
“You do not like AI so you say, Try it, Try it, and you May! Try AI and you may, I say!”

You might as well give in now…your phone or padular device is already listening…and wants to be friends!  Blow them off, and you may suffer the consequences (being hacked by China or Elon Musk!).

NEXT FRIDAY...I’ll share my experience with the SUPER COOL “AI Glasses” I got from my daughter! They are beyond cool…and yes, a little scary!

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