Mac hadn’t been impressed with the greenhorn they’d hired, but had given the kid a chance.
Talk around the breakfast table came to a halt when the kid said he had an AI Degree from the nearby Agricultural College.
Mac told everyone to meet in the barn after breakfast and the kid could give them a lesson on AI.
The others around the table stared. The greenhorn turned white.
“My degree is in artificial intelligence.”
“Flying saucers!” Boomed Mac as he left the room.
The morning orders echoed from the hall. “Barn! Ten minutes! That includes you too, greenhorn!”
Talk around the breakfast table came to a halt when the kid said he had an AI Degree from the nearby Agricultural College.
Mac told everyone to meet in the barn after breakfast and the kid could give them a lesson on AI.
The others around the table stared. The greenhorn turned white.
“My degree is in artificial intelligence.”
“Flying saucers!” Boomed Mac as he left the room.
The morning orders echoed from the hall. “Barn! Ten minutes! That includes you too, greenhorn!”
99 WORDS...AND A LITTLE BIT MORE
It seemed fitting to include some old characters in this week’s prompt that took me to almost 300 words by the time I finished the exercise. Paring it down to 99 words was a chore, but this is the result.
When two different worlds collide, there is a possibility the words we hear do not mean the same, especially when acronyms are used. And even more so, when different generations have their own meaning of words, both correct, and both with the ability to get people’s danders up.
Tell me one person who is from an era before the internet that doesn’t think of green men and spaceships when they hear those words, artificial Intelligence. Giving it the acronym AI only makes it worse, because probably many in this era immediately let their brain go to the veterinarian showing up with whatever he needed to artificially inseminate the cows. I am of the opinion that AI as in artificial insemination takes precedence to AI as in artificial intelligence. There will be those of you reading this who will disagree, and that is fine. Remember, everyone is permitted to have an opinion.
I have taken liberties and call the new AI by my own description that I mostly mumble under my breath. Apparently, it’s not for public dissertations. I’ll leave it at that.
How do I feel about its intrusion into my life? I am not going to trundle down a rabbit hole just because it’s trendy. You must remember I like to write my stories longhand first. Perhaps when I no longer have vision, or can’t clutch a pen, or use a keyboard, I can only hope that most of the bugs have been swatted away from this thing we call artificial intelligence and I will be able to use it as I choose.
Do I use Artificial Intelligence in my writing? I have to say this: I do not use it to write my stories; however, to end with some humour, I need to reminisce back to the time I made the decision to turn on the autocorrect button in my writing program.
In that regard, I have used AI for years. But, my imagination allows me to think I had a personal little minion snoozing in the backroom of the program waiting for me to spell something wrong. Unfortunately, they didn’t get much sleep due to my great ability to use Canadian spelling vs USA suggested that keeps popping up, among other things. While writing out the first draft of the Little Bit More portion of this post, they were on a coffee break, therefore no spell check or any other form of fixing was used. And, in case you find something that coulda/shoulda/woulda needed to be corrected, I am hoping you are pretending not to notice. After all, we are human, we make mistakes. The minions? Well, that’s another story for another time.
AI is here to stay, and it’s been here for a long time already. How we use it is up each person to decide.
When two different worlds collide, there is a possibility the words we hear do not mean the same, especially when acronyms are used. And even more so, when different generations have their own meaning of words, both correct, and both with the ability to get people’s danders up.
Tell me one person who is from an era before the internet that doesn’t think of green men and spaceships when they hear those words, artificial Intelligence. Giving it the acronym AI only makes it worse, because probably many in this era immediately let their brain go to the veterinarian showing up with whatever he needed to artificially inseminate the cows. I am of the opinion that AI as in artificial insemination takes precedence to AI as in artificial intelligence. There will be those of you reading this who will disagree, and that is fine. Remember, everyone is permitted to have an opinion.
I have taken liberties and call the new AI by my own description that I mostly mumble under my breath. Apparently, it’s not for public dissertations. I’ll leave it at that.
How do I feel about its intrusion into my life? I am not going to trundle down a rabbit hole just because it’s trendy. You must remember I like to write my stories longhand first. Perhaps when I no longer have vision, or can’t clutch a pen, or use a keyboard, I can only hope that most of the bugs have been swatted away from this thing we call artificial intelligence and I will be able to use it as I choose.
Do I use Artificial Intelligence in my writing? I have to say this: I do not use it to write my stories; however, to end with some humour, I need to reminisce back to the time I made the decision to turn on the autocorrect button in my writing program.
In that regard, I have used AI for years. But, my imagination allows me to think I had a personal little minion snoozing in the backroom of the program waiting for me to spell something wrong. Unfortunately, they didn’t get much sleep due to my great ability to use Canadian spelling vs USA suggested that keeps popping up, among other things. While writing out the first draft of the Little Bit More portion of this post, they were on a coffee break, therefore no spell check or any other form of fixing was used. And, in case you find something that coulda/shoulda/woulda needed to be corrected, I am hoping you are pretending not to notice. After all, we are human, we make mistakes. The minions? Well, that’s another story for another time.
AI is here to stay, and it’s been here for a long time already. How we use it is up each person to decide.
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February 27, 2024, prompt: In 99 words (no more, no less), write a story about artificial intelligence. Use any genre. What is unfolding or has the situation existed for a while? Who shows up, AI or a figure of imagination? Go where the prompt leads!
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