I am such a nerd

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So, I have spent the last couple of months researching AI.  This included using AI to write, code, interview me (you should try this to pull out information - have any of the AI engines interview 1 question at a time about a topic - it is a good exercise), make images, and even video.  

What have I learned from this?  AI isn't going anywhere and moreover, you are already seeing AI everyday and you probably don't realize it.  YouTube videos, podcasts, and news articles are all being created on the fly.  

Don't think you're being fooled by these things?  Go to Google's NotebookLM add a good piece of content to your notebook and then click the audio component and it will create a podcast on the fly and here is the scary part, click "Interactive Mode (Beta)" and you can interact with the podcast - yes, you can call in.  Mind you, you can talk to AI today, but this shows you that AI can create a conversation on the fly (predictive text generation that is then text-to-speech), but it is all so fast and life-like that you have a hard time delineating outside of one item: emotion and humor.  Introduce either and you start to realize that you are talking to a machine.

All in all, I find the technology absolutely fascinating and just the idea that predictive text model with large vector databases can seem so "intelligent".  Honestly though, aren't we just big databases with sufficient recall?

Ultimately, if you are a tech nut (geek, nerd, etc... like me) and you haven't played with the current "reasoning" models (Deepseek-R1, OpenAI o1) and seen how they "think" you probably should as it is pretty dang interesting and may just be a trick to make it seem like it is "reasoning", but it is still pretty impressive.

Things will become more and more "intelligent" as we move forward.  The amount of energy and resources that is being spent here is concerning, but once we pulled this genie out of the bottle it is hard to shove it back in.  I can somewhat guarantee that within the next 3 years you will be hard pressed not to be utilizing some from of generative AI as it will be integrated into all the tools (search engines etc) and shopping (Amazon, etc...) you do online.  If you didn't know, Walmart already has their own internal AI that the company uses as does most large corporations.  Honestly, if you are in customer service, you should be looking for another role.

Honestly, I get a little sad when I think about the future of this tech and I hope that I am around to see us use it for something good and not war, power, and greed.  Not sure I will hold my breath on that one.

For now, I'm good (MMGA).

- JJ

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