The little check boxes have proliferated on my planner book pages. You know the little boxes and the cryptic notes in them. When you finish the task you put a check in it? Six months later, you look back, and it’s an unreadable mess because you scrawled in a hurry.
Being that I save my books year after year, I can look at the shelf and pull one out and attempt to decode or decipher things. It’s like trying to traverse the unknown terrain of a mountain range: Look, here was a grocery list. Did I actually get those eggs? Then there were the doctor’s appointments. Look at that one with the scratchy notations? I need a new system!
What about the one on the computer? There it all is clean and pristine. There is even an AI “assistant” to “help” me when I stumble. It’s like when I try to do my usual of writing a note about an appointment, then draw an arrow through the next thing with five or six exclamation marks reminding me that, yes, I have to stop afterwards to get a prescription. Then I double score the next item with hashtags a heart and a note to get flowers.
All this makes perfect sense to me, but the AI is going around trying to clean up and straighten up after me. NO,NO!! I try to impress the importance of my notations, but it insists it has a better way.
After a while I am using the stylus to literally impress the damn AI – stab, stab, Die, sucker, DIE!
Well, so much for AI’s, and it’s back to the old-fashioned book to which I have added a flourish of hearts, asterisks, and exclamation marks. Now all I have to do is try to turn off the damn AI interface on the computer. It seems unwilling to go away. ” I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
Who the Hell is Dave?
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My computer doesn’t do that thank goodness- I will have to come back here and find out how to turn it off if it ever starts!
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Even after stumbling along and turning off switches and unchecking boxes, the AI features keep making themselves known. I think we are doomed to struggle or be assimilated.
I’ve poked around your blog (which is new to me) and I like what I see. You are quite a talented woodworker and carver. I am an accomplished woodworker, but carving eludes me.
Well, Dan, other than some simple chests and boxes, joinery has eluded me.
I just had an evil AI kiosk experience, and they made it hard to email a complaint, and difficult to contact a person. Unfortunately for them there are other alternatives. and I think that will turn the tide. It will get better, and the ones who do a poor job will fail.
I hope you’re right. I know they’re trying to save money, but it’s hard to make up for lost business.
To be honet I hope so, too. some of what’s happening is scary.
So far I have managed to stay away from AI. I hope to continue without it.
Unfortunately, it’s the corporate answer to having people do the work. Saves money, makes enemies of clients.
I love the image of physically stabbing the AI. I want to do that every time I Google something. Die! Die! Die AI! I never asked you! And you’re wrong anyway! So frustrating.
There are dent marks in the desk from my “stabbing the mouse” into the desk.
ha ha ha ha!!
Our generation is not the target demographic. I think the people it was designed for like these features. The target market is people 18-44. I don’t think those people have met HAL and probably find all these features convenient. I remember back in the day when the Blackberry came out, Gen X and older Millennials were quick to adopt it. It seems to me that this is a kind of evolutionary idea of “convenience.” I read an article recently that said many young people can’t read a clock. I think Stone Age people would know pretty quickly what to do with a hammer, but a screw driver would baffle them except for putting out the eyes of their enemies. It’s all about how a tool is used. I also don’t like what feels like AI telling me how to do things, but from another vantage point it’s showing me how it works. I still write stuff down and we know I use a wall calendar. 🤣
But well-designed interfaces can be interesting to learn. It’s just that some seem like they were designed as a high school student STEM project – the one that failed!
And I used exactly that example when I creamed the manager of my PT clinic for a lame AI Kiosking system. It was awkward, and they had hired some weird people to input the data, which was all wrong.
Well, you know I have a”certain turn of phrase,” and I turned it on!
I love it when you do that!
😇…awwww, thank you!
I do really wish AI would die.
I think Dave is HAL’s best buddy, isn’t he? 😉
Thanks so much again for the prompt, Lou! 😀
It’s been a fun January so far; we’ve had some great prompts and posts!
We have! 😀
lol, this was great! I still prefer to write out my notes and journal entries, rather than let the computer do it. Scribble on, my friend… hugs
Just Say No!
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This really captures a real tension quite nicely. Human notes carry context and intent that systems still struggle to respect, even when they are trying to be helpful.