On June 4th of this year, I dropped a blog called, “Creepy, Weird, and Cool”. It was about what ChatGPT wrote about me when I entered the prompt, “Write me an article about the Joe Still Sunday Blog. Do you understand?”
In 6 seconds, A.I. blew my mind.
And this week, A.I. blew my mind again.
In the past year, some of you have asked me if I could provide The Sunday Blog on audio. You know, for those folks who can’t read it because they’re too busy drinking their coffee, eating a bran muffin, and watching Tik Tok videos all as they merge onto the freeway. I’m here to do my part for public safety, but my bandwidth of time is limited.
So I started to think to myself, “Maybe A.I. can help”.
This week as I was wandering down the Artificial Intelligence rabbit hole, I stumbled across Polly. Polly lives on Amazon’s AWS platform. We’ve only been on a couple of dates, but I’m already falling for her. She is the one woman in this world who can give me what I need most: clean and crisp text to speech conversion. When she reads it’s like an angel whispering in my ear. She’s fast, she’s accurate, I don’t have to pay for dinner, and as time goes on, Polly is only going to get smarter, better, and faster. She’s a machine learner.
I like a lot of things about Polly, but she is a bit schizophrenic. She doesn’t scream and swear at me, she doesn’t throw plates at the wall, and she’s never boiled the family bunny in a pot on the stove. But she does have multiple personalities. She can be, a man from Mexico, a woman from France, or a little boy from America. She can be anyone you want her to be and that is kind of creepy and weird. But it’s also kind of cool.
In case you missed it, there is a new image below the header of this blog. If you tap it, Polly’s sister Amy will read this to you. Let me know what you think about me onboarding Polly as a part of the blog. But don’t wait because in a week everything will probably change – again.
Good luck and have a good week.
Joe Still
2023.10.01
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“I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.”
– Socrates