Finally, after many months of off-and-on effort, I’ve finally gotten blog comments working on this site. It has been a long journey, and one that taught me a lot along the way. Many probably would respond saying “Why did it take you so long?” but it was a challenge trying to find the right combination of tools and processes that would make it easy for me to incorporate dynamic comments on a static site by either avoiding reliance on a backend service or reducing the reliance as much as possible, while preserving each commenter author’s content ownership.
For the last couple years, I’ve been watching the AI space in the tech industry and have been astounded by the amount of change I’ve seen. While AI has been a field of study in computer science for many years, only recently have I seen things change significantly very rapidly. And with that change, I’ve formed my own opinions on the what I’ve been seeing, and I felt it was time to at least share my current stance on it since I know that I can seem like a hypocrite between what I say, do and believe as they seem contradictory but I believe that my stance is nuanced.
On this day every year I usually sit down to reflect on the events and achievements of the year, but since 2017 I’ve not published those thoughts, mostly because I usually spend the last day of the year with my family. But this year I decided to try to resume my end-of-year posts here, but as a quick rundown instead. In short, while this year was full of signficant events, overall I’ve felt that things were pretty stagnant personally and professionally.
Recently I’ve been watching the increasing rate of advancement in generative AI with a mixture of amazement and anxiety. I won’t get into the debates about whether it deserves to exist and its impact on the planet and humanity, or whether or not its adoption into nearly everything attached to the Internet is warranted as I feel there are plenty of arguments on both sides about it out there in other corners of the Internet written by people who can treat the subject with more finesse than I would be capable, but I do feel that the rate of advancement can be problematic as culturally we have not adjusted to combat its exploitation in social engineering attacks.
