Thoughts on Ai

 ** I should make note that any writing I do is NOT from AI. The reason I write is to brain dump, reflect, make record of life, and hopefully use as ministry. So as good or bad as it may be it’s from my brain, from my heart, all my thoughts and opinions and an occasional good quote that I’ve looked up. It makes me sad to think that “writing” is going to and has become a question of who really wrote this-a human with a brain or a computer?! I consider writing a gift, an art even and to think that now anyone can just use a few keystrokes and a few thoughtless words to “write” is just plain sad. 

 -I did use Ai for the definition and to make a point of how easy it is to use it as in the first paragraph of this writing, but everything else is just ME!!!**

“Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the simulation of human intelligence in machines that are programmed to think and learn like humans. These machines can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as learning, problem-solving, decision-making, and perception. AI systems often use algorithms and data to analyze information, identify patterns, and make predictions or recommendations. (Ai generated)

Yep-I just used AI to look up what it actually is. Frankly, I’m terrified of it and its convenience and the way it’s being used. Do I use it? On occasion-just recently downloaded the app at the recommendation of doing Bible study plans, ask questions about different Bible translations, I’ve even asked for some quick workouts, recipes, etc. Do I like it? Not particularly but we live in a world of convenience, quicker is better, and when I need something quicker than running to my large Bible commentary books or when looking something up on google takes too long to weed through so much info. Definitely convenient. Recently, I even looked for some journaling prompts to write about something I’m dealing with. Ai then generated a prayer-and at that moment I loved the prayer, but then I was like-‘yea that’s too much-I’m not going to use a computer to tell me how to pray when God gave me the wherewithal to to talk to Him.’ 

I don’t love Ai thinking for me, or the idea of anything artificial reflecting my thoughts. Im actually a bit terrified. I am terrified that so many are becoming dependent upon Ai for their thoughts, their words, diagnosis, problem solving, for work. What have we come to?? I’m terrified that writing, the art of actual thoughts and imagery can be done by any ole joe blow is disheartening.

 I’d like to refer back to my blog a few weeks ago concerning “mask.” It seems now, with Ai generated thoughts and words, etc that it is becoming so much easier to hide, easier to “mask” our own thinking, and who we are. I mean the title itself…ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE screams FAKE!!! Ai can literally make dog poop look and sound good and it can make someone sound like Shakespeare that has no reason to be sounding like Shakespeare. 

When and why did we dumb ourselves down so much that we had to use artificial thoughts/words and become dependent upon a computers generated thoughts and intelligence? Why are our kids spending thousands for education when it only takes someone with a few wits to type in a small request and generate an ad, a blog, a post, an outfit, an itinerary, a budget, even how to raise a kid, how to look up something in the Bible or even diagnosing something? Why are we educating our kids when computers will be doing all of our jobs for us it seems? Think about it-how many jobs have already been replaced by computers? Little unnerving to think that one day Ai will take away more jobs, and worse -the ability to think for ourselves. 

I think it unnerves me most for those that depend on it for thoughts and words. God gave most of us a sound mind, a brain, an ability to learn, and to speak, and wisdom-so why or what has made us want to depend on fake intelligence??? Is it laziness, self worth, afraid we can’t think for ourselves, failure, or is it just easier? Shane use to tell me-“nothing in life worth anything comes easy.” No truer statement. Why do we feel we are not capable of thinking for ourselves and easy is better? 

Y’all, we are dumbing ourselves down one keystroke at a time. It’s sad now when I read or see something and I have to wonder if it was human generated or fake. Seems we live in a world of fake (from copy, body’s, faces, thoughts) so I’m not sure why I’m even surprised. Seems being and acting fake has become the norm in our society and it’s just plain sad and scary. Why cant we be ok with what God gave us? Why cant we be ok with the mind and talents we’ve been gifted? Convenience is slowly taking our ability to think away and is essentially killing us.

As with most things-there’s always a revealing. A persons heart and intentions will be revealed at some point, and it’s interesting that anything created by Ai can be revealed just as simple as Ai generates -with just a few keystrokes. All things hidden will be revealed-that’s from God’s Word-and it’s a promise from Him and not Ai generated. 

“He reveals deep and hidden things;

    he knows what is in the darkness,

    and the light dwells with him.” Daniel 2:22. 

I’m sure Ai has its place-it definitely can be helpful when used in conjunction with our own intelligence but we humans always seem to take advantage of and put way too much value in something, making a good thing really bad. Y’all-we need to chill out on letting fake things rule! Let’s go back to using our own minds, and talents, instead of being so convenience driven, so worldly. 

As technology advances and we become lazier, and more fake and  convenience driven-we allow worldliness to lead us-not our God that created us.