I am using the title of a 1951 Rogers and Hammerstein show tune to illustrate my limited progress this past week in learning/implementing any 21st Century technology.
Despite the fact that AI is often reported on as a potentially malignant tool, which will one day enslave or annihilate the human race, my current peaceful use of it has allowed me to plan some needed changes to my website.
The need, as described last week, is to bring my site into conformity with my newly created Substack account. The revised content will showcase my past achievements as opposed to my original intent to create a consulting presence. My lack of profit motive and a disdain for self-promotion have made the business incentive moot. So on to “better” things.
AI is helping I. Although grammatically incorrect this is a clever way, in my opinion, to use the action oriented subjective pronoun(I) in place of the recipient oriented pronoun (me) to characterize my role in this process. While AI is the instructor it takes my inquisitive initiative to instigate the instructing.
So far this has proved useful. In the short time I’ve consulted the guidance of my virtual guru, I have learned more than when I watched the outdated tutorial videos available on the internet. AI stays up to date while the videos become obsolete with each new fix to whatever software program I wish to learn.
The hitch is in my ability to both grasp and implement the information. Age is an inhibitor. My age, that is. When I served as my mom’s caregiver I observed her struggles to process information with each passing year. Now I am the one to be observed. This means a certain kind of race is on.
I have a lot of accumulated content I wish to share and once I understand the technique for staging such imaginative wealth, my website, Substack account and eventually my YouTube channel will be alight with my personally acclaimed wisdom.
AI and I are linking arms to get me there before my own internal wiring fails to meet code.