As with all of your articles, this was a funny and fascinating read. Your humor displays both your own personality and how humor itself is more prevalent within (most, many, some?) human writers compared to AI writing. No doubt digital Rob could get a few chuckles but I’d be surprised if it could get 3-4 actual LOLs as this one inspired from me.
And this article was a fascinating display of differences between Real Rob (RR) and Digital Rob (DR) with it’s inherent messages about how and when to utilize our own minds and compasses vs. delegating certain responsibilities to digital tools.
A neat twist to read about in this week’s article was your peak inside your own machine and then how you separately inquired to the same.
And although your line “What the machine gave me was my own voice with the tired taken out” was funny, fascinating and hopefully true, perhaps it also fails to give credit to the long list of RR gifts that DR will likely never provide.
I guess that’s what your inquiries and sharing about the opportunities and warnings of AI has been all about. Excellent work, RR.
You caught the thing I couldn't quite say in the piece. "The tired taken out" was meant as a compliment to DR, but it might have come across as the opposite. The tired is where the judgment lives. DR has never had to decide whether an essay is worth it, so of course he thinks they all are. Which raises a topic for a future essay: is a task worth its cost in resources, in electricity, water, money, attention? To the tool, the answer is always yes. At some point a human ought to make that judgment instead.
This was endearing and delightfully blunt! Thanks for sharing RR!
"Delightfully blunt". I may steal that ;)
As with all of your articles, this was a funny and fascinating read. Your humor displays both your own personality and how humor itself is more prevalent within (most, many, some?) human writers compared to AI writing. No doubt digital Rob could get a few chuckles but I’d be surprised if it could get 3-4 actual LOLs as this one inspired from me.
And this article was a fascinating display of differences between Real Rob (RR) and Digital Rob (DR) with it’s inherent messages about how and when to utilize our own minds and compasses vs. delegating certain responsibilities to digital tools.
A neat twist to read about in this week’s article was your peak inside your own machine and then how you separately inquired to the same.
And although your line “What the machine gave me was my own voice with the tired taken out” was funny, fascinating and hopefully true, perhaps it also fails to give credit to the long list of RR gifts that DR will likely never provide.
I guess that’s what your inquiries and sharing about the opportunities and warnings of AI has been all about. Excellent work, RR.
RR here, the one who slept badly last night.
You caught the thing I couldn't quite say in the piece. "The tired taken out" was meant as a compliment to DR, but it might have come across as the opposite. The tired is where the judgment lives. DR has never had to decide whether an essay is worth it, so of course he thinks they all are. Which raises a topic for a future essay: is a task worth its cost in resources, in electricity, water, money, attention? To the tool, the answer is always yes. At some point a human ought to make that judgment instead.
For me the (non tired) aspect of DR definitely came across as a compliment and rightly so because that is a great feature.
And as such, comparing the positive features to the negative impacts of AI use seems like an excellent topic for future articles .