Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for the next post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you’d like to participate in the challenge, you can find the list of topics for 2025 here. Or, if you’re interested, you can read what others thought about this week’s topic here.
What I Think Of AI (Artificial Intelligence)
I think, like most people, I have a complicated relationship with the idea of AI. On the one hand, it has the potential to do wondrous things in the medical field, like detecting early signs of cancer and devising targeted treatment plans for patients. It could also be used to help make surgeries safer and help to avoid complications.
It’s used in the running of our phones and computers, and most of us couldn’t do without them. Even my washing machine has a Smart setting, which gives it some level of AI.
However, my relationship with AI starts to get complicated when it comes to the idea of AI art and other forms of AI-generated entertainment.
I can see its value as a tool artists could use as inspiration — a jumping-off point to help get them started. I use it in the form of Grammarly or Trinka when I edit, so I don’t judge those who use it.
I suppose I’m saying that I’m conflicted about what creativity means regarding AI. As humans, we use our imaginations to bring ideas and concepts into the world that weren’t there before, but with AI, a person feeds in prompts, and the AI creates the work, pulling from other people’s work that already exists. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about that.
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen some beautifully created works of art and music and things created by artificial intelligence, but that’s not really human creativity — or is it? Does the very fact that a person has carefully (or otherwise) fed an AI system prompts to create a piece of work mean they are being creative but just in a new way?
I’d be very interested to read what you all think!
Anyway, post 2! Thanks for reading.
Until next time,
George
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GEORGE L THOMAS 
I only recently learned about it being used to detect cancer very early. That’s intriguing. I wonder how accurate it is?
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I know, it’s very interesting. From what I’ve learned from Google, it seems to be around 96%. So, it’s not terrible.
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AI art always come off as looking uncanny. Having been train in art I can see that there something disproportionate about the artwork.
I do think AI can be use for inspiration but, not making art.
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You make great points. For some things AI is very helpful.
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I still don’t see any independent use of “artificial intelligence.” Matching terms, even for translation or diagnosis, is a mechanical process. Mixing up other people’s results is a sophisticated use of human intelligence to program a machine to plagiarize other people’s work.
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I know. The whole plagiarism thing really sours the idea for me. But the future potential for things that can actually make society better is great. It’s just a shame the realising if that potential seems slow.
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As a dyslexic writer, I find the use of AI very helpful, just like I do with software like Grammarly. Rather than fight it, I work with it but only for what I need it for.
I also don’t mind AI using my work, if it helps others.
I have tried it for creating images for blog posts, but the majority of them have not been good, especially when text is included. I think it still has a lot of learning to do.
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That’s great, Hugh, I’m glad, A.I. is helping you to write. I also use Grammarly. It’s been a life saver.
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Likewise, George.
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