Deep within the heart of an ancient forest, shrouded in emerald foliage, a banshee unlike any other lay hidden. Her skin, as vibrant as the freshest leaves, seemed to blend seamlessly with the lush surroundings. She was a guardian of the woods, her wailing songs carrying messages of caution to those who dared to enter her territory. She was not, as others of her kind, a harbinger of death, in the first instance. She was a protector of the delicate balance of the forest. Her mournful cries were warnings to the creatures that called the woods home, a reminder of nature's unforgiving ways.
Read MoreAI has taken everyone and everything by storm this year, most successfully embodied by the services created by Open AI, chiefly its digital assistant ChatGPT and image generation service DALL-E. All technology firms, if not companies more generally, are now looking for a way to integrate AI into their core business, less they want to get left at the proverbial station by the departing train. I am moderately curious and open-minded to new technologies so I have dutifully tried to update my knowledge. I have read around, and listened to conversations with Open AI’s main protagonists and proponents of the technology, as well as those who believe that AI could well be the end of humanity. I am still undecided about how important this technology is. After all, a healthy dose of cynicism and scepticism have to be applied to everything that is presented by Silicon Valley as the next big ting. It’s possible that we’ll be praying at the altar of AI, or even AGI, in short order, but it’s equally possible that no one will remember OpenAI in a year’s time.
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