Coming Together

It’s been a busy week or so, filled with so many things I could put in a blog. My adventures with the Sarasota Writer’s group have continued, with this past Wednesday being my third meeting. I read the first few pages of “Lucifer’s Love” and received stark, constructive, and appreciated feedback from the group. “Readers might adopt a physiological symbiont with a loosely defined character in this piece,” was part of Rod DiGruttolo’s observation in the group’s blog. In reading with them I’ve learned my writing styles are unconventional and that I have a lot to learn about writing. Next time should be intersting as well.

Glen Blame generating writers. (I use Meta to generate this image - I has a watermark. Never seen that before.)

I also purchased some new hardware capable of running a (little) LLM locally, and now have LLaMa 3 running on my system and others coming soon. I’m primarily using python and the ollama packages to leverage the model and building some pretty fun tools and capability. My family is already exhausted by me hyping the greatness of AI. As an example, with C^ a few prompts and commands I created a bot interface for Glen Blame LLaMa. It was less than 15 minutes start to finish and I’ve never written a GUI in python.
AI is currently changing the world, now is the time to catch the wave.

As it turns out Glen Blame LLaMa identifies as female.

The fact remains that I still do not know how to program a GUI in python. I did not really look at the code I just followed the instructions and implemented the code C^ gave in response to my engineered prompts. So while I am more capable empowered by AI, the jury is still out on weather making things easier will make us smarter. We had a great family discussion in my house this weekend about the mixed blessing of AI that I can already hear echoing in homes around the world for decades to come.

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