With our overnight temps having dropped, I found my wool overcoat was needed again before I headed off to work early this morning. Hopefully it won’t be too many more days until I can send it to the cleaners and then put it in storage until next winter’s use.
Upon arrival at office, I busied myself with following up on emails and then getting my pre-listing file organized for my late morning appointment. I did have to run over to my storage room and get one more hinge I was needing for a door that I was getting hung, and only because I didn’t realize that door was in need of three hinges instead of the normal two. Since it was gunked-up with old varnish, I stripped and then polished it, just so it would match the others.
My pre-listing appointment went very well, so hopefully I’ll be getting it on the market the first of next week. While there, I didn’t find anything that was in need of attention before listing it, so about all I did was make a number of notes regarding the room sizes and features. I’d say the biggest selling point other than the mechanicals having been recently updated, is where the home is located, which can make a big difference on pricing and subsequent marketability. As I was walking to my vehicle, I checked to see what time it was, and was a bit surprised when finding I’d been there for a good hour.
Before heading back to office, I took a trip out to a west-side groceteria where they had some pretty good-looking veggies on sale, and luckily I got there early enough before the Saturday afternoon grocery shoppers arrived. Once again, there was a customer with a full grocery cart who was kind enough to have me go ahead of her. Even the cashier was being more personable. Yes, there really are a number of thoughtful people left remaining in our community.
With being such a fine early Spring day, I decided to take a long drive down some lonely blacktops, just to get cleansed of the psychological stink of our City which I’d absorbed this past week, and after getting in some touching views of barnyard animals in the distance, I figured I was good to go for another week. I really wish I had my camera with me, because I came upon one of the biggest herds of goats I’ve ever seen in North Iowa which I certainly would’ve shared with all of you. They can be the most comical creatures. I did catch sight of my first robin today, so I guess we’re well on our way to long days and pleasant evenings.
When I arrived back at office, one of my long-time clients stopped by to have a chat since I’d not seen him in months. Knowing he’s a computer geek, today’s conversation centered around this mushrooming craze over the growing abilities of these various AI programs which have created quite the stir in publishing, reporting, the arts, and just about everything in between.
As he was loading me up on all the positives and negatives of AI, I began interjecting with some very dark predictions, which will most likely come true, if we the general public don’t start creating some major restrictions on it. With the continued evolution of computerization, we are now at the threshold of becoming far too dependent on AI, and especially our young who’ll be taking every advantage of its benefits.
Believe it or not, AI has become so sophisticated and human-like, it can now out-smart the programs which were developed to detect if something is written or created by humans, or an AI program, which will fling wide-open the doors for abuses, and the first thing I thought of, was the writing of book reports, job applications, letters of introduction, short stories, artwork, reporting, and the list goes on and on.
There’s already been some kicking back from publishing houses and art dealers who’re refusing to accept anything created by AI, but unfortunately, it’s going to be all the harder to distinguish between what’s human created and what’s been spit out by an AI.
You’re likely asking yourselves, “Why are they creating these programs?” Well, as always, it’s all about money, so say you want one of the most polished reports on a certain subject, you’ll have to pay for it like all the other thousands who’ve decided it’s too much work to envision and then create.
Hmm…here we go back to the words envision and create. I personally will vouch for the fact that our society as a whole, is rapidly losing its ability to envision and create, and mostly because we’ve allowed our computers to do it for us, and having been in real estate for so many years, I can definitely see the change. Comparing 25 years ago to these times, there’s no question today’s buyers have a very difficult time envisioning and creating, and especially lacking the ability to distinguish between good work and bad. They don’t even pay attention to the bones of a home anymore, and if you don’t believe me, I can pull a good dozen sales over these past months which I believe sold for far more than what they were worth, and only because they were lipsticked and staged.
I’m sure you remember me mentioning that 2006 comic movie ‘Idiocracy’ which was all about the devolution of humanity, so if you have time to watch ‘The Minority Report’, and then follow-up it up with ‘Idiocracy’, that’s likely the future humanity has in store for itself if we don’t get back to the basics.
When thinking about these 3,500+ journal pages I’ve written and shared with you all, it would be interesting to find out how much of my content has already been plagiarized.
Tonight’s One-liner is: I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.