AI

Artificial Intelligence - or AI

is a wonderful thing

"How wonderful it's all going to be!"

many people say!

people with skin in the game say so - actual people 

with actual skin - but is it a game?

They tell us about the benefits 

telling us that AI is going to speed up everything 

make medical diagnostic procedures more accurate 

make the production process quicker,

reducing the human input to a process will reduce errors - thus speed things up,

giving us greater efficiency 

provide a better customer interface

streamline the administration

all done in a non-biased way!

What's not to like!

AI will empower

improve

provide

generate

automate

test

correct

deliver - it's going to accelerate our growing need for solutions

it will reimagine the creative process - if you can think it

AI will create it

AI will step into the creative process and do it for us

do it instead of us

that will give us more time

and free us up to do other things - but what other things?

what will we be doing whilst AI is doing the jobs

our jobs

the jobs we used to do ourselves 

what will we be thinking about whilst

AI is doing the thinking for us

learning to think for itself

thinking about getting on with the job

thinking about learning more

thinking about the other things it could do

thinking about thinking for itself

thinking about thinking!

Thinking!

All I want AI to do is my chores whilst I do the creative stuff myself

I want it to do the dirty jobs whilst my wife and I go out for a coffee served by a gainfully employed human being

who has job satisfaction

who appreciates human contact

and who earns a decent wage

I want AI to work out which investment my pension provider should take 

to give me a better and bigger pension so as my wife and I can afford to go out for that coffee

I want AI to leave meaningful professions for my children 

and grand-children to undertake!

Will AI be thinking

about thinking even more

about thinking about becoming more intelligent 

and so be able to do more

to evolve

like we humans did

and so

take over - for that is at the heart of all this

this is what we worry about

and

maybe we should shut the lid of this pandora's box whilst we still can

should we be careful about what we wish for

about just who would be serving whom?

Or

are we being a little paranoid over this

maybe we are sticking our heads in the sand

and our fingers in our ears

and with the "la la la la la!" of a ten year old

refusing to face the facts - these facts being

that this is already here

and that we already have it

we have computers - and they do talk to each other

and they do think

we all walk around with compact communication devices 

sticking out of the back pockets of our jeans

we have technology 

and we didn't all die as Big Ben chimed at the end of the last century 

and as we march on

maybe we should worry about other things

like

getting on with each other

and ending conflicts

and perhaps 

who knows

maybe AI could help us with that.

(Haiku)

Not to be rude, but...

you really don't understand 

sarcasm do you!

Working Title

Incompetence covered with a gown

long and touching the groun-d

crumble the meanings attempted 

poetry lamen-ting

it's crashing non rhymes - ping?

...and grind!

the poetic chaos of one's minds - eye

and sometimes words perceived

crowbarred in

received

half-rhymes even squeezed

in

or smashed

into a car-crash

a mad poetic "supermarket sweep"

type trolley-dash

unconsidered - and not appropriate 

words that do not consolidate 

bring nothing to an already lawless state 

the attempted meaning

to a left or right 

or slightly centered leaning

don't work as one - bringing

nothing to the story

just bringing - fury 

and nothing of - glory

quite the - cont-rary

to the poetic mind

this explosion of random thoughts

onto a page is - bought

a mal-a-prop of sorts

the work of an out-of-conrol-head

work better not read

but listened to - instead

I'll read it in bed

'nd try not to loose the thread

instead

despite all I said

Too Much Time

I have a mug with a painting of a robin on it

I have a small torch that fits inside a black woolly hat

I have a dog sat on her bed in the sunshine in the lounge window

I have candles

I have full fibre broadband

...I have bad back

and I have too much time on my hands

Shut The Line Again

There was a bus in the village pretending to be a train

they're doing something somewhere and have shut the line again!

A bus with delusions of grandeur 

to a train is no match

well at least it's better than nothing and it's something we can catch - that said I could easily have caught the flu

something I would rather not do!

"Rail replacement" this bus was called

if it's there tomorrow they'll be appalled 

the men in suits will have a committee formed

and feet upon the fire warmed 

of those who this the trouble caused

the total equalibrium paused 

I'm not sure if they have even tried

to find why such action was applied

it'll be like on the highways with all those cones

with a number to call which no-body phones

but they'll mutter and moan and never claim 

"BOLLARDS!" -  that's their proper name!

And then upon a post I saw

next to the deserted station - and covering the floor

posters explaining the reasons why

they'd need two weeks for a solution to apply

"track through the tunnel is life expired"

so track replacement work required 

that will shut those suits up tight

work to get them home safe at night

to make sure nothing comes off those rails...

at least it'll be nice and quiet - but with no ticket sales!

Tittle-tattle

Been here for years and 

not one to "prattle"

Ya know - not keen on "tittle-tattle"

we like to keep ours noses out 

but, I see things when I am about

like, I don't think him and her are still as one

I don't quite know what either's done

They are new across the way

only came the other day

the "bizzy-body" down the road

still sticks her nose round our abode

and him who's always at his bike 

cleaning and tinkering as ya like

he is a mechanic so there it goes 

washing it with his high pressure hose

and there's the one who I can't decode 

says she hates everyone in the road

those two there -  they're retired 

tending their garden even when it's not required 

and that family with kids that always decorate 

their house each season - something I hate

and him with his flag pole without consent

flying a flag for every event

and that bloody dog - as bold as brass

barks at us every time we pass

there's the grumpy one, he always moans

there's nothing right with anything he owns

but she's alright, she's had it tough

some kind of illness - think she's had enough

Him in the corner lost his missus

I don't think it was all hugs and kisses

not really for me to say

but I saw him out, the other day!

Like I said, we keep our noses out 

it's not our business - and there's no doubt

and it's not really for me to say

but...

I myself 

I wouldn't do it that way

Nah not really!