30.3.24 - Elementals and AI

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Earth Elemental

Fire elemental

Water elemental


Air elemental

Earth elemental

Fire elemental

Air elemental

Water elemental

AI is really amazing. I mean it is fantastic. I don't understand people who say I hate AI and then they use the Internet. The Internet is exactly the same as AI. Now the writing for AI is dismal. It really is awful. Text to word speech dreadful. But the art - that is something else. It is basic - true, but also it is pretty damn good. I am happy with it. Does not mean I won't be drawing or doing art myself or loving the therapeutic benefits of art - which is the entire point, but for results, it is hard to beat AI for a finished product. And it isn't a competition between AI and us. AI will never be us. Never. And I am so certain of my own humanity that I don't even worry about AI.

Also if you develop your own ability to think, you will never have to fear about being like AI. AI lacks the capacity of a soul. It can simulate and approximate and imitate it. But the ineffable nature of the soul. The living breathing spirit which was been bestowed the gift of life. No. AI will never be able to do that. The makers of AI will always fall short.

I was watching Nyad yesterday and was thinking about her drive... it was a bit too much to be honest, but she did it. She swam 101 miles and she had an amazing team behind her. People are amazing really. We are amazing. AI can know, but it can never persist. It will never know the glory of learning and growing and failing and laughing and the beauty of a sunrise. In a sense, AI is like the description of the angelic beings who have only this role, this lane it has to stay in, but no body. Angelic beings have no feelings. They have no choice. And that is why I will never be afraid of AI. 

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