{"id":29763,"date":"2025-06-16T12:25:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29763"},"modified":"2025-06-16T22:14:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T21:14:50","slug":"its-time-that-i-came-to-terms-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=29763","title":{"rendered":"It’s time that I came to terms with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Like many men in now their 70s, I came late to computing – and I would probably have come even later if it hadn’t been for the fact that I was asked to become Head of Research when the Communication Workers Union (CWU) was created in 1995. This made me head of a team of young researchers, all of whom were comfortable working with PCs and gradually so did I.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, I was a quick adopter of the web. I created a personal site<\/a> in 1999 and it’s still going. And I was quick to use social media: I started a blog<\/a> in 2003 and it’s still running. I’ve been a long-term user of Facebook<\/a> and post something almost everyday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, I’ve been slow to take on board artificial intelligence (AI). I guess it’s because I retired fully from the work of work seven years ago. So I don’t feel that I really<\/em> need to use AI. On the other hand, as AI becomes ever more ubiquitous, I feel that I really<\/em> need to understand it better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have read a book<\/a> on the subject and I will shortly be attending a couple of lectures<\/a>. But what better way to appreciate AI that to use it? So, this weekend, I downloaded three bots – ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Perplexity ai – and I’m going to experiment with them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"