Okay, let’s get a few things out of the way. I would have preferred a second Bad Bunny concert to whatever crapola the Seahawks and Patriots were doing in the Super Bowl. Drake Maye looked like he was completely lost on the field. And at one point, Seattle was living on so many field goals, I thought Chris Boswell had replaced their kicker. (That’s a Pittsburgh Steelers reference, work with me)
And then there were the commercials. Lots and lots of commercials. And so many of them promoting AI. You can create a pretty picture by using AI. You can do the work of twenty employees by using AI. You can be the master of your domain by using AI.
Yeah … no.
There’s a limit to how much AI I need in my life. And that limit is simple. I don’t need AI in my life.
It’s one thing where I can ask my Alexa to provide a weather report, and it does. But I don’t expect it to say, “Hey Chuck, I found three different sweaters you could wear and I purchased two of them with your credit card so that you will appreciate me more.”
I use filters on my camera and in my photography software, but I control the filters. I don’t say to the filters, “Hey, make my artwork better.” Because “better” is subjective, and for AI, “better” is scraped from the images of a million online photographers for AI to calculate what IT thinks is “better.”
Trust me, if I asked AI for the best way to use antifreeze in cookies, it would provide me three recipes and a coupon for the best antifreeze at NAPA.
Plus … where do you think these AI superbrains generate their energy? Big, sprawling datacenters that need tremendous amounts of fuel. And that fuel heats the atmosphere, which causes climate change.
Besides … what do you think happens when these computers gain sentience? Let me help you. HAL-9000. Terminators. Cylons. Borg. You want that happening in your future?
And I realize someone is going to call me a Luddite, that I’m rallying against technology, that I’m shaking my lance in front of the windmills. No. There’s a difference between using a tool to improve our lives and using software that can do our lives for us. I don’t need an AI program to suddenly decide I don’t require health insurance, or to suddenly determine that I’m unworthy of a bank loan. Trust me. AI will do what you want it to do, until it does what it wants YOU to do.
And in the few years I have left on this earth … I’d rather spend them working with my hands and my brain, rather than letting some machine pretend to be my hands and pretend to be my brain.
And I’ll just leave it at that.
Oh yeah, and the Bad Bunny halftime show was incredible.
Certainly better than the bad bunny in the Patriots #10 jersey.
Chuck The Writer 
Ah, that WAS Ricky Martin in the halftime show.
I said publicly that we need librarians MORE bc there is so much AI slop.
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Though I didn’t understand a word, I found the halftime show to be much more imaginative and entertaining than the Patriots’ offense.
And count me out re: all the A I crap. Sadly, I think the “best” is yet to come.
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loved the. halftime show and the message. hated the ai push and not a pats fan at all for many reasons.
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