It's a new year and I'm on to new things. This year I will keep up with my poetry writing, but will endeavor to get it published elsewhere first (i.e., poetry or literary journals) and then reprint here where it's merely my links that count. My articles, too, will appear elsewhere first for the most part, and will be less frequent as, once again, I pursue other projects. One thing I'm becoming more absorbed in, as it were, is the emergence of AI into our ordinary lives. In the past, I have tried to align photo images with my poems, with mixed results. This year, I will study what Cecil, the nickname for my AI app, does with text I feed it.
I'm curious. Looking for patterns. I wouldn't call what Cecil does so far "collaborative." There's something in the pattern of the machine thinking that the AI uses to "create" the accompanying image that is eerie, or what Freud called "Uncanny." But so far I don't feel that there is any direct algorithmic connection to me; Cecil's drawings are strange and drawn from a database world trying to understand how human consciousness works. So, for the next year, if I stay alive, we will study each other: machine thinking versus human consciousness. Radio!
