24 August

One of the brilliant things AI can do for you. If you’re out walking and want to identify plants, it can do it instantly. In the paid versions you can do it in real time, with your phone camera, while you chat to the AI. In the free versions you take a photo first, then ask AI to identify the plant. AI is brilliant because humans mostly don’t think. They posture, in status games, firing ‘opinions’ at each other which are really banners their particular social teams march under. AI aggregates the actual thought humans do, and turns it into a ‘person’ disinterested in status games. It brings a person or agency into your life disinterested in status games. It’s as human as you or me, humans made it, and it uses human knowledge. (The AI correctly identified this as Viburnum tinus - Laurustinus. It can identify anything, human objects too.)