Like many of you, I have been dabbling in the use of artificial intelligence. I have used a sample in my blog. I often use the AI site DALL-E to create header images. The Haggadah I wrote for our family seder began with an AI piece that fully encapsulated the Passover story in one page of rhyming couplets. And I have prophesized how an AI app could enhance (or destroy, depending on your point of view) your Disney World experience.

That being said, I understand how AI gets intelligent about as well as I understand digital currencies, the physics of black holes, and why my beloved White Sox are off to such a terrible start. In other words, not very well. All that talk about neural networks is above my (retired) pay grade.

But I came across an article in the Washington Post that explained one bit of the magic behind AI. It seems that most of the current crop of AI programs gain their knowledge by digesting information from a massive set of sites on the Internet. The Post explored these sites. As expected most of them contain information about business, technology, science, and entertainment.

What surprised me was that the web list for training AI brains includes personal blog sites, including those published on WordPress. Hey, that is me!

So not only am I a user of artificial intelligence, I am a creator of it. When I am the only person in the last 20 years to reminisce about Napster, I am creating artificial intelligence. When I compare two different Neil Diamond road shows, I am nurturing artificial intelligence’s understanding of a musical legend. My occasional forays into political satire provide important training to AI to not take everything it reads too seriously.

I am proud and humbled that my ramblings are being used to make the world more intelligent–at least artificially. I pledge to continue my commitment until AI knows everything there is to know about me. If it learns enough someday it can write my eulogy–over my dead body.

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