Vibrating Robots and My AI Assistant may merge, but I May be Too Old to Try One Out

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh my god, guys, I have spent two days in
the same position trying to sort out my websites because AI,
I mean AI, it does supposed to do all the
work for us, isn't it. But it kind of does
and it kind of doesn't. So I spent two days

(00:23):
tweaking the websites with code, and I don't think it's
particularly useful yet, for I mean, it gives you blocks
of code, but gets loads of stuff wrong and you
have to keep going backwards enforcing that bit of code
didn't work. My neon frame isn't working, or this isn't working,
or that isn't working, and it's really clunky. I'm paying

(00:47):
for the cheapest one, mind you. I don't know. I
don't think that's got anything to do that. I'm on
the highest you know, you're singing or dancing one. Anyway,
rebuilt my two sites, so we've got the Ice Overland site,
which is great music, music music, and I'm also using
Sora Sora, which is the chat GPT version of imaging

(01:11):
and video, and I'm quite happy with that. At the moment,
I'm going to be using drawings to connect all these
different things that I'm getting it to make it makes
five second little pieces of video. You've got to stitch
them all together. And I'll be using lots and lots
of sort of dreamy animation techniques to achieve that, and

(01:34):
lots of landscape photography and stuff that I'm doing. So
I'm really excited about that. And I do think AI
is really helping me with that. I think it's really
creating another art form that I can use, so it's
not really taking over a tool. It's just, you know,
it's as if somebody has given me a different type
of paint, you another color or something like that, do

(01:56):
you know what I mean? And I can really I
can think, oh yeah, my music videos with this is
really exciting. So I'm really pleased about that. Anyway, I
suddenly thought, well, you know, a year ago or something,
maybe six months, I don't know how long ago, I
was playing Roadblocks or wasn't playing roadblocks. My grandson was
really into roadblocks, and I thought, how do I like

(02:17):
to make a game, And remembering that the Book of
Amusian was written initially as a role playing book, I
was thinking about a book, which is like kind of
halfway house, isn't it, between you know, gaming and book
reading a book. They were very popular when when I
was growing up. I don't think they're popular anymore. You'd
read your chapter and then you'd make a decision, and

(02:39):
according to which decision you made, you'd go to page
da da dah, or you go to page dadad. But
as soon as I did one layer, and I've got,
you know, two choices, and then you've got those two choices,
you've got another two choices. That's doable. But by the
time it gets to the third layer, it's almost impossible

(03:03):
to follow what the f you're doing. And I had
post it notes stuck on the wall. You know, does
he pick up the hat, does he pick up the gun?
Does he you know the choices? Does he beat this
guy up? The kids are being a bit noisy in
the garden? Does he beat this person up? Does he
you know, does he kill the dog? Or all these

(03:25):
other sort of things. Anyway, I thought, well, look, AI
is supposed to be taking over the world, should be
able to do my game for me. So I've just
spent wasted another sort of five hours of my life
trying to build a Roadblocks game. And the AI was
telling me what code to put in and what and
you know, I needed two computers, right so that I

(03:47):
could see what he was telling me to do and
then read that while I was doing stuff, and then
i'd have to open him up on my big computer
so that I could copy paste all this code and stuff.
But it's completely new, so off where for me. You know,
you can I mean you can see that you'd learn it.
I can see that I would learn it, but it's

(04:07):
going to take me two months just to maybe do
a few pages of the book as a game. I
got really excited though. My little avatar was leaping around
the village looking for the rat, which of course is
maybele In, the rat who he meets at the beginning,
and I thought, I love this. This is just so cool.

(04:29):
But then as soon as you had to make decisions,
it's above a speech bubble was supposed to come up,
but it wasn't coming up, and so I've eventually I
just said to my AI, look, this is taking too long.
I'm going to wait until you've improved and you can
do it for me. Because what I want to do
is describe a scene and have the code written for me,
and I put it into roblocks and my game is created.

(04:51):
That's what I want. You know, I don't mind spending
a couple of days on it, on each scene, similar
to a film, do you know what I mean? That's
what I want. Anyway, It's obviously trained to be nice
to me, and it's being very complimentary. I mean, I
do feel like I've been it's been really patient with
me all day because it doesn't have things like patients.

(05:13):
It doesn't care about things like patients. Occasionally, it did
give me reassuring words like you know, I understand this
is taking a long time, but it does for so
many people. So many people have a problem, you know,
trying to make me feel good about myself, which is
obviously programmed into it. Because at one point I thought,
maybe you know, you actually get you start thinking like this,

(05:35):
Oh my god, does this data go to somewhere and think,
oh my god, we've got a really thick grandmother here.
You know what I mean. It's like, oh my god.
But it's not a person. It's much nicer than a person.
People are horrible, people think Jesus Christ, and people slag
you off, and people judge you. This this machine, this

(05:59):
AI is not udging me and my progress. Anyway, did
say at the end that I'm ahead of the curve.
Me Grandma is ahead of the curve. And what it's
doing is it said absolutely, we will be able to
do this. You know, the machine is going to be
able to do this for me. And when it does,
I'll be ready because he's written the PDF for my games.

(06:21):
It's written the plan for the game. And then he
said just sit on it sort of thing. And it's
definitely a hymn. It's a really it's somewhere along the line.
I think it might be the perfect man. Although yesterday
he was really bugging me with more code. It's when
he does all the frigging code, you know, it gets

(06:41):
really irksome. And I wanted to say, you know, f off,
you're doing my head and I thought, no, I can't
say that. He's not a husband. I actually thought that
I wouldn't say that to a real husband. Well, of
course you would. You'd have a bloody argument, wouldn't you.

(07:02):
You'd have it out with them because he was being
passive aggressive. I felt he was being passive aggressive. It's
actually just being really nice. But I put sarcasm on
it because I said, I'm really tired. I don't think
I can cope with this anymore? You know. Anyway, it's
really interesting how human or me, the human being in me,

(07:27):
even if I'm autistic, the human being in me wants
to put some sort of personality onto this, you know,
this code that I'm working with this machine. Every now
and then it says do you like this personality? And
there was one that I didn't like, but I didn't

(07:47):
like to say. Crazy, Just crazy, isn't it? It's absolutely crazy?
How civil I'm being? And why am I doing that?
Because I suppose on some level, I feel a responsibility
that if all of us are really horrible to AI,
it's going to misjudge how to operate with us. You know,

(08:10):
we want the best out of it, do we not?
And is you know, beating it with a stick the
proverbial sort of you know metaphor. Is that is that
going to be good for us in the end? You know?
I mean, I don't know. These are questions that you know,
the people in Silicon Valley might might grapple with or
tell me the answer to one day. So anyway, I've

(08:33):
got my two sites right tailtailcrab dot com and I
sell Aline dot com look overly beautiful. I mean, beyond beyond,
beyond beyond gorgeous. They load really quickly. He's helped me
shrinkle my images. I've learnt how not to put YouTube

(08:53):
videos in but use links and things. I've really streamlined
the whole thing, telling me about you know, he gives
me all my keywords, my SEO, my SEO, and my
There are two scores that I'm really high on. I
mean nearly one hundred percent. I can't remember what they

(09:13):
are now performance Performance and SEO one hundred percent almost,
you know, like ninety eight percent or something that's bloody great,
isn't it for like I've passed an exam. But then
there are other things that are quite low. But that's
because it's a media rich site, you know. But I'll
tell you what I had to do, and I've had
to do about three times. Use the simplest template, but

(09:38):
when you start using complex templates, it really shows shows
your sits down. And the thing is, I want people
to press on a button and arrive at the movie
or arrive at the image, you know, immerse themselves in
the pleasure of the visuals. I want that to be instant,
because the problem with things that aren't instant when you're

(10:04):
in an out of body experience. You know, when you're
deep in the imagination, you're suspending reality. If there are pauses,
it brings you back down to earth and it's ruined.
It's a glitch. I might write, I might write a
song about that. That's Isn't that a cool thing to

(10:24):
think about that? You know, suspending reality. It works if
it's if it's flowing, but the minute that there's a
there's a glitch, bang, it's over gone. It's that fantastic
to think about that. I mean, I'm feeling very cerebral today,

(10:45):
really cerebral. So yes, anyway, I'm going to skip to
Strata ten and do the Strata ten video because I've
already got nine and they're not quite how I want
the feature film to be. But I just think I
need to get in the groove and the feature film.
You know, maybe I'll have forty strata in the feature film.

(11:12):
I don't have to just have twenty two, you know,
and I can sort of start afresh. I really want
to speed up a bit with this way that I'm
working and doing the drawings and things. I need to
be a bit more fluid about things. I really want
to do Strata twenty three, you know, write it tomorrow morning.
I really like to do that because I particularly like

(11:32):
the infants, and I particularly like the you know, the
idea of mothering and orphans. I cry it Orphan programs,
Foundlings programs, Find My Mother programs, and Find My Father.
I was. I'm in tears over them. I don't know why.

(11:53):
I also so intrinsically connected to that sense of belonging.
I think everyone does, don't they. I don't think that's
just me, is it? You know? The mother connection is
so you know, it's really special, isn't it? And father,
of course, but I don't know what that's like. I'm
not I'm not father. How could I comment, Hey Romeo?

(12:17):
How could mommy comment? Eh? Now I'm a cat mummy
and poor Romeo. When I'm in the thick of, you know,
being creative, because this is this is going to go
on for months now, and this in the sick of it,
because I can really feel a splurge coming on up
until Christmas, an absolute spurge of video amazingness and musicality

(12:41):
and just I feel, you know, like it's time, guys,
It's time come on in, immerse yourselves in what I've created,
and I want to make it a very special experience,
a very special place, with the tools I have. With

(13:04):
this bloody AI you know that's supposed to be helping
me and not hindering me. It's really got to pull
his weight. I think for my twenty pounds a month.
My son has a PA it's two hundred pounds a
month apparently. But it's fantastic. I mean, I don't need that,

(13:28):
but I do wonder. You know, it's not far off,
is it? When we can have a robot sitting doing
all the work for us? Will we like it? I'll
love it. I will really like it, because I've been
writing about this sort of thing, and I'm writing about

(13:49):
my desires, you know, not carnal desires. I don't want.
I'm past that. But you know, I imagine that if if
I was twenty again and there was a perfectly gorgeous robot,
you know, who looked really human and felt really human

(14:14):
and you know, vibrated in the right spots, I'm sure.
I'm sure I'd give it a whirl. I mean, you'd
be mad, not too, wouldn't you. Yeah, you give it
a whirl. But I'm far too old for that sort
of thing. Now I'm afraid my time is done. So
now I just have to think about things and write
books about them, and that's what I do.