If there’s one thing we can say about the Daily Reminders, it’s that they’re not AI-powered.
It’s bloody everywhere these days, isn’t it?!
A fact that is gloriously lampooned in this hilarious strip from my favourite Guardian cartoonist, Stephen Collins:
It’s six panels-wide and two deep, so if you want to view the whole thing (it just gets funnier and funnier and funnier) click on the image, or the link beneath it.
“THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI JANET!!”
😂🫛🤖🫛😂
And I made a point, didn’t I, when I sent you my Daily Reminders Pledge the other day, that:
“I'm not about to go outsourcing these outpourings of love for you, to our robot overlords. It's just not a thing. As time goes by, Al is becoming omnipresent, so I'm sure I'll mention it. I'm a tech nerd, so I don't shy away from using it either. Just not for writing.”
And here I am, mentioning it.
Because it’s bloody everywhere these days, isn’t it?!
What I’m most conscious of, as I sit here typing this, at the back end of 2025, is that any post written about ‘AI’ (Artificial Intelligence, for anyone who’s surely actually living under a rock?!) will be immediately, and horribly dated.
(Back when the first one came on the scene, I recorded a video all about how AI is quite possibly the best metaphor for the computer-mind we could ever hope for. And while it’s still absolutely bang on the money, in terms of that distinction, it also seems subtly tinged with naivety now, not even 2 years later.)
Giles P Croft
It’s a longer, more reflective video, to relax into (🎥 7min)
The pace that this stuff is moving is breathtaking, and I don’t think we can comprehend where it’s going to carry us.
So I’ll try and keep it general. (While at the same time bookmarking this one, to come back to, and laugh at.)