The AA, once first in the alphabet,
takes ages to answer distress calls.
When someone says AI
I say Ayee!
like a wounded Native American
in a curdled Sixties comic.
Now Microsoft is offering
to help me put words together.
I'm analogue, not digital,
and aware I'm being phased out.
Thanks for the comments, Graham, Uilleam and Rolph, and for the Likes, Manish, Helene, and Red Brick. The world of apps and QR codes is more or less beyond me, yet without that knowledge it's becoming increasingly difficult to survive. You have to jump through many online hoops to set up online banking, or indeed, most things online. We are beseiged by long articles of bland rubbish on social media, all obviously composed via AI. And now Microsoft is offering to help us write! Yes, Uilleam, for those of us of a certain age, I fear we're in the soup!
Fri 17th Jan 2025 15:42
Dear Greg,
I couldn’t agree more with your sentiments in "Alphabet, oops!"—I, too, am firmly in the "analogue, not digital" camp. Like you, I feel increasingly aware of how quickly technology is shifting and how it often feels like those of us who didn’t grow up as "digital natives" are being left behind. The transition to a world of AI and digital tools does seem to erase something essential, and it’s hard not to feel like we’re being phased out. Your observations on the inefficiencies and the dissonance with technology really resonated with me. I'm with you on this!
Best regards,
Rolph
Fri 17th Jan 2025 14:46
Two soops!
Fri 17th Jan 2025 09:50
In the course of writing two lines, I've been rudely patronised and insulted.
I've got one thing to say to effing COPILOT: .....................OFF!
Sorry, that's two.
I’m with you Greg. Pretty soon we won’t be able to believe anything we see as real! I think a good word for this state of make believe is to be ‘Trumped’ He’s not real either.
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Graham Sherwood
Fri 17th Jan 2025 17:32
I remember when computerisation was beginning in the retail world and I was fundamentally involved with it. Whilst trying to explain it to my interested father I remember thinking that he didn't understand a word I was saying. These days I am sure my sons (and daughters) think the same way!!