AND GOOD LUCK WITH GETTING IT TO BUTT OUT
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“Sheesh. What do u recommend? Talk tomorrow!”
I knew exactly what the text meant. It was late at night. A friend and I needed to fix the wording on a business document. I hit the Reply key to say what corrections I was making, when we could meet, where . . .
Bot Bully beat me to it.
“Sure!” he offered. Or, “Sorry, I’m busy.”
Who the heck does he think he is? He knows my mind?
Apparently. In the olden days, we used to think for ourselves. Actually, I still enjoy thinking for myself — but it’s getting tough.
“Awesome!” says Bot Bully before I get a chance to respond to somebody who sent a text containing the word ‘win.’
Someone else mentions ‘sick?’ I might have had a human-intelligent response, but here’s the Bot, butting in with “Get well soon!” or “So sorry!”
I worry that auto-think may eliminate brain cells altogether. If Bot Bully already has the answer, does human messaging have any role in our future? Artificial Intelligence v Human Brain? Bot Bully is winning.
For instance, atop my email list as I open my Inbox, suddenly here are red-emblemed Priority! messages. When they start appearing in all caps I will know our president and his co-chief Elon have taken over Apple Mail.
I miss the days when I could figure out my own priorities.
As I was typing the above, a pop-up bot announced that Genmoji and Image Playground are now available on this machine. There go my creative-illustration brain cells.
So okay, I get that AI is here, and wonderful, and all that.
I just miss thinking.