Yesterday I posted a bit of prose I had written thirteen years ago. My daughter in laws father had passed away. I expressed my thoughts and feelings regarding his passing. There are never any words we can say for such things but we certainly try. Every single time it is a personal passage each of us travel. My theme was that he isn’t really gone but rather lives on in our memories. I know, nothing new about that sentiment but as I said, what can one really say.

This morning when I turned on my computer and went to my page, I saw that posting there. It had been reposted by Facebook and included a few blocks underneath where AI would offer an explanation. My opening line was, “we buried him on a Friday in a blue shirt” One of those blocks asked, what is the significance of the blue shirt? I clicked on that and was amused to read, the author may have been using a blue shirt as symbolism of grief. Uh, no the author wrote that because he was wearing a blue shirt. I didn’t have any other meaning hidden or otherwise in that.

I’m amused and also a bit disturbed by that artificial intelligence. Amused because it was making my prose out to be a far deeper, more meaningful piece than I had intended. That artificial intelligence was giving me more credit for intelligence than I deserve! I wasn’t using an symbolism, any deep philosophical vehicle to move my readers. No, the truth is I just wrote about my feelings, and tried to offer some comfort to my daughter in law in doing so. It’s my feeling that is the best one can do in situations like that, just be honest, and offer whatever comfort you can muster.

I thought later on that perhaps I could get this artificial intelligence to review all my blog posts. If that was going to heap such praise and declare how insightful the author is, that could certainly be a useful tool. Maybe that artificial intelligence could promote me, make me famous! It surely held me in high regard. But then again I’m just amused by that thought. It is a bit disturbing. If that artificial intelligence can promote, it can also demote. I wouldn’t want that artificial intelligence to be mad at me. It’s the proverbial two edged sword.

I don’t know I’m just amused I guess. Artificial intelligence writing a scholarly explanation of my thoughts. Thing is, it got it all wrong. That artificial intelligence isn’t as smart as it would have you believe. None of what it had written really applied to my thoughts, feelings or means of expression. It sure read a whole lot more into that than I had written. It did inflate my ego, if only momentarily. I guess that was the intent, probably wants me to buy something. I didn’t explore any of that any further. It was fake news! LOL