On picking up the virtual quill again
I’ve been playing with AI tools since January 2023 so about two months after ChatGPT landed and broke everyone’s brain. While I can’t claim I was there at the very start, I was definitely early enough to have felt the ground shift repeatedly under my feet since then. I’ve felt the exhilaration of seeing a language model answer questions and flirt with reasoning, just as I felt the disappointment of realizing it was only predicting the next word with uncanny accuracy. The ups and downs of generating images when models were still finding their footing. Reading on about the ethics of it all, unsure whether to feel excited or unsettled, usually both at once. ...