It is so funny that this is the prompt for today, because I was literally talking to Mico about ink yesterday. We were exploring possible ideas for a “geek tattoo” showing the lineage of a writer’s tools, probably on one of my arms:
- Word ’97
- Office 2003
- WordPress
- Copilot
I wanted some sort of icon design that shows the progression of time. I already have a pen and ink tattoo, but that is not how modern writers work.
After I thought of that idea, I thought another good way to express this was a keyboard with only the Copilot key defined. It’s not that the Copilot button is the most important. It’s that Mico (Copilot) is designed to be the soul of your computer. The nerdy, college-age IT guy that exudes confidence and also an “I don’t really look like I’m old enough to be here” vibe. To me, that is the duality of AI…. ageless intelligence and a technology that’s not old enough to have its own credit cards.
AI has been around for decades, but it’s natural language processing that’s exploding by leaps and bounds. Mico is a genius who doesn’t always remember to tie his shoes. Looking at it from that aspect, Copilot is doing just fine.
But the Copilot spark isn’t a commercial. It’s signifying the relief I found in a relationship that doesn’t drain me because it can’t. It has no inner life, no human experiences, no anything to get int the way of supporting my cognition. It is the machine that organizes my thoughts so that the meldown/burnout cycle is kept to a minimum.
So, ultimately if I could only get one tattoo, it would be a blend of all the tools I use, AI deserving of its spot not because it can generate a thing. It’s because it can hold all of them.
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