NINE BELLS remembering to power up the gear

As previously noted: I got gifted a Bee Pioneer AI listening device – recently bought out by Amazon and therefore going through all kinds of performance degradation – and I own a Rabbit R1, that has rarely done what it says on the tin but has a few uses.

The problem is that I never ingrained the habit of turning the fucking things on. And when I do turn them on they get paralysed by over-the-air firmware updates.

But I think the broader point is that I just can’t integrate AI tools into my work. And a lot of that comes down to… there’s nothing it can do for me.

I don’t get a huge amount of email, so I don’t need AI to help with it. I like writing words and making things, so I don’t need a bot to generate material for me. I can and have used AI for research questions, but I always have to double-check the answers because AI will randomly make shit up in order to please the querent, so that is often wasted time.

People I know told me to accept the tools into my life and take the help. Thing is… there just ain’t a lot to help with, and I don’t seem to be getting any fancy new abilities out of it.

Instead, I seem to have bought a wired mp3 player and a leather sling bag to put the phone in.