Jeff Turner ‣ My Thoughts Exactly

Is “Are You Using AI?” The Right Question?

17 days into his new site, a reader says to Jay Thompson, “I see some of those double dashes. Are you using AI?” Is that even the right question?

I was fooled for a moment by an AI voice yesterday morning. But I liked it, and it got me what I wanted. And that is the part I can’t get past.

The truth snuck up on me around the campfire at Leavitt Meadows with Jim Walberg. That’s the only way I can describe it.

Why would I want to publish a public version of a chatbot using a clone of my voice? It’s a fair question. Here is the answer.

Fifteen years ago I wrote a post titled, Social Is A Mindset. AI isn’t a mindset. But AI requires a mindset. And I’m giving it a name.

Paul Brainerd, the inventor of desktop publishing, died on February 15. I read about it Saturday morning in the New York Times. He changed my life.