Senior Adventures In Ai

I know I should probably stay in my lane but I have been known to secretly turn off lane assist when nobody is looking. Though it probably had to do more with the stupid sound that it makes than wanting to be an unconstrained free wheeling rebel. Anyway, I wanted to relate to you an experience that I had using an incredible AI music generating program called Suno to help me create two songs I was working on. I fed in my lyrics, my melody and a recording of me singing  the song (which is far from professional ) while the program supplied all the instrumentation and final vocals. The results, if I do say so myself, which I do, were just phenomenal.( I will give you the link later and you can judge for yourself) . Most incredibly, Suno totally understood my intention, where I wanted to go musically with the cut and designed it accordingly.  The production that emerged was wondrous, professionally orchestrated and deeply soulful, worthy of being added to a soundtrack on either movies or TV. Besides this  being one of the most satisfying creative experiences of my life, I  must say that seeing first hand what  AI could actually do changed me from being a crusty old technophobe to being much more wondrous and hopeful. Who would have thunk at my age? I would have the ability to change any thought I had in my head.  Not moi. So I got to thinking ( and then I will stop qualifying everything I said) Where does this fear of technology come from? Not from our past, when incompetent robots depicted in our movies and cartoons had a tendency to malfunction for human amusement and comedy relief. Robots used to be so cute and funny, those blockheaded machines swiveling their heads around squeaking and making funny noises trying unsuccessfully to mimic complex human behavior. Now, not so much. We now fear that humankind could become the punchline of their jokes ( Whoo dude, heavy).The culprit if you really want to know is your damn mammalian brain , the primitive part deep in your brain stem responsible for your survival. When faced with the threat of uncertainty and unknowing,our medulla does its job sending out an all points bulletin,  fear response initiating its chosen reaction ; fight, flight, freeze or fawn.The flight response causes people to try to avoid AI advancements all together, even if it would benefit them. This is because the automated response in our survival brain occurs before our rational mind takes over. We are resistant to change because that part of our mind likes certainty.  Wow, I am making my head hurt, maybe I should take a break here, oh, that's right I can’t. My ego won’t let me.  So what is it exactly that we are afraid of? The list is long and kinda frightening  ( though probably true). Who wants to go first? OK , me. So called ethical concerns, robots decide we are unworthy, take over the world  and lock us out from  our lives. End of story. Wow, that was shockingly precise and terrifying,  Now who could possibly worry about that? ( Ya know, maybe I should stick to cooking reviews). Though it is  pretty easy to imagine all types of sinister activities, like  Bad actors deep in  FUstan, sitting in the dark munching on chips while they gleefully transfer your life savings into Ponzicoins. I  think the  best way to help arrest our fears like privacy loss and replacement is to get your cortex involved and reframe it, seeing AI less as a threat and more  as a tool that will be able to assist us by expanding our knowledge and improving our lives. It involves re seeing tech as being more in our service, not in our place, whose function is to serve not to rule. Kinda like when the GPS first came out allowing even someone as directionally challenged as myself to find their way anywhere without driving in circles for an hour. In the future , AI with its ability to crunch tremendous amounts of data will vastly transform medicine and education, creating individualized treatments and curriculum that target identified weaknesses and conditions. In science, programs will be able to analyze chemical and biological interactions allowing them to identify other compounds that act similarly leading to new medications and even cures. So in a nutshell don’t be an old Fuddy Duddy. Good things are happening my friends, try to be just a little excited .And now  just to leave you with a parting thought, maybe everybody really IS talking about your paranoia. Ha .Now can someone please just explain to me how the item that I just thought about buying has already appeared in my shopping cart . Spooky? Hmmm, Nope.     

BTW , Y’all can listen to my musical creation ‘ I Can Feel Your Arms Around Me” by going directly to my blog, Harry's Food and Wine Corner at  hgordon13hg.substack .com or check it out on Spotify under  the stage name “Gordon Jakes”. Please comment, I am getting lonely.

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