AI - 0.00 - intro - table of contents
Following up on some random conversations about generative artificial intelligence (or genAI, the current hot topic in the *much* wider field of artificial intelligence or AI) over the years, a friend recently noted that not only are the tech giant corporations doing their best to force us into participating in genAI, whether we want to or not, but that the government, which should be keeping an eye on this development with a view to protecting us from possible dangers, is, rather, jumping wholeheartedly on the genAI bandwagon, and desperately promoting any and all genAI businesses that pop up.
And asked a deceptively simple question: What can *we* do about AI?
As a teacher and a researcher, my immediate response is, of course, education. Learn about it. Teach yourself about it. Get some free accounts on various generative artificial intelligence systems. Play with them. (Carefully.) Ask them questions. Judge the responses.
(Of course, the tech giants are trying to sneak genAI at you any way they can, and you have to watch out for that, but I'm working on it.)
He also noted that we should advocate for "the right to opt out." This is probably the big one. This is what you should be advocating for, and bringing up, every chance you get, in any conversation, so that people know that this is something that they should be paying attention to and striving towards. But, of course, to be effective in this, and not just be dismissed as a crank, you also have to educate yourself.
So, as a teacher and a researcher, and one who has decades of experience in the field of information technology, and at least knows that AI is not *one* thing, but many, I probably have a bit of responsibility here. I have written about genAI in recent years, and probably need to do more.
So, as a first step, I have gone back over some of my writings and postings over the past few years to try and identify, collect, and organize some of what I've *already* written about AI. And this is a kind of table of contents (similar to that for grief topics), pulling together and semi-organizing what exists.
Then I can get on with filling in some of the blanks ...
Series:
https://fibrecookery.blogspot.com/2026/01/ai-000-intro-table-of-contents.html (this)
Related:
Any friend that can be replaced by GPT-4 ...
ChatClauDeepGemGrokMeta
Initial (brief) overall review of various chatbots
LLM AI Bios
Deeper review of the ability of genAI to do bios
genAI sermon test
A few genAI chatbots you can test out with free accounts
https://x.com/i/grok (be *very* careful with this one)
Maturity Models and genAI
Meta-Bible
Sermon 38 - Truth, Rhetoric, and Generative Artificial Intelligence
Sermon 55 - genAI and Rhetoric
We have taught genAI rhetoric, but not metaphysics, epistemology, logic, or ethics.
Griefbots
No, I *don't* want Gemini to run my life, thanks all the same.
How to avoid getting trapped into being fed AI all the time
Magical "Singularity?"
(The "Singularity" is one of the "conspiracy theory" fears about AI, but it does have a small chance of being true.)
ELIZA: Why simplistic "listenbots" are so attractive
Sermon 29 - Marry a Trans-AI MAiD
Will genAI stifle *all* creativity?
Creativity is allowing genAI to make mistakes
(genAI "art" has some room to improve)
Connections, tools, research, writing, and AI contamination
Your Newly Nascent Hallucinating AI Overlords
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