I don’t know if ever there was a time in my life where I would have wanted this device. However, I see why some might.

What I wonder most: how will devices like this change our relationships with other humans?

In 1953, Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451. In that story, Bradbury imagines a dystopian future world where people engage with their wall-mounted televisions and wear shell-like devices over their ears to listen to music. In that world, people lose track of their history, consume the lies spoken to them by people in power, lose the ability to critically think, and lose the ability to embrace conflict.

I don’t believe the world is ending, and I don’t believe we’re entering into a type of dystopia. Instead, I believe we are entering a world where AI may (or may not) shape our lives a bit more. Based on how LLMs are developed, they may cause us to stagnate and regress as a society if we don’t create more.

The process of creativity is born from the realization that there is something more beyond the margin of the present. And then the creative person acts upon her realization and she crosses over the margin and into the frontier of the unknown. The creative makes her art, she ships it back to those she seeks to serve, and her work might be accepted or rejected — this is the creative’s way.

There is a bravery that comes from being creative. And tools that may (or may not) help us be brave and endure the pain and anxiety that comes from produce work that might not land, doesn’t help us be more creative.

I’ll step off the soapbox now.