Before you go off on me about using AI, I want to briefly change the subject and tell you a story about why I sometimes use this new tool that the corporations are spending big bucks on.

When I was in college in the 1960s I had to write compositions on various subjects in the English classes. To do a good job of that meant that I would spend hours in the university library going through the card stacks trying to find info about the subject. The card stacks were basically 3×5 inch cards each talking about a different subject. After collecting a half dozen cards I went to the corresponding aisle of the library to find the book on the subject. With the books in hand it usually took three to four hours browsing them for information I could use.  Sometimes the information gleaned was no more than a sentence or two, but hopefully it was enough to spur some creative thoughts on the subject.

Now in 2026 all I have to do is to ask a simple question and the six hour or more I used to spend is now about 3 seconds for the words to come up.  Every time I use AI I think of those college year searches.

I am convinced that there will be an AI bubble that burst as there was in the “.com” world a quarter of a century ago. But I think that, like .com things, AI will eventually be a game changer when we finally figure out how to use it to spur our “human” creativity. In the mean time, I will continue to use the AI where I believe is valuable and disregard the rest.

I kinda see AI as like the android Data in the TV series “Star Trek – The Next Generation”, it was amazing how he had absolute recall about facts, but could not figure out what love was all about.