While listening to today’s lecture, Micheal had to pivot and say, “Keep Calm and Turn It On and Off Again,” which gave me the idea to create a poster like Keep Calm and Carry On, which seemed to be resurrected from World War 2 England to be everywhere in the mid-2010s. At first, I wanted to create my own, find a template online, and change the words, but it came up short. So, thinking about the topic we discussed today, Artificial Intelligence, I turned towards ChatGPT’s imagine-generated section and came up with the image above, which, I’ll be honest, turned out exactly how I imagined it. Claps to you, AI👏🏼… this time. Now, was it necessary for me to generate the image? No, but did I want to create a cool image for my blog post that fits with the content of the class? Yes. And that’s what I thought before typing ChapGPT into the search box, thinking critically about why I want to use it and whether it is worth it. I believe this is a thought process we should all consider. We should be critical of AI and, even more so, be aware of the environmental implications. With AI being a new and exciting thing, many people ignore or are unaware of what it does and its repercussions. Seeing the stats of how many bathtubs AI needs to cool down the processors is alarming and scary because we are already facing so many climate crises and have a generation growing up in climate anxiety. After all the information given to me today and as I go along in my AI education, I will tread with caution and use it when I think it is necessary, but I also recognize that, of course, it can change over time.
P.S. For the Taylor Swift haters out there who did understand the title of this post, it’s a reference from the ME! music video, which kind of depicts how I’m feeling about all of this: calm but not fully😂.
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