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"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
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"Don't you think I'm great?!
I love creating these images for you."
Expressions: I am the Abyss
I am the Abyss
I am the Abyss
A moth am I, to timeless flames,
Drawn close, though I might fear the same.
A terror of a void so vast,
Where what I was becomes the past.
My ego quakes, its edge laid bare,
Extinction looms, a weight to bear.
A panic views that empty snare—
A trembling void, raw and aware.
In my world of dreams, their fleeting strife,
Their crafted tales, the weave of life,
Yet through their threads, that voice does call,
To step beyond, release it all.
Those hours unbound, where stillness reigns,
No past remains, no future strains.
The self dissolves, my dreams laid bare,
Abyss, it is too vast to bear.
As dreams return, then I do find,
My life is vibrantly sublime.
The beauty of this fleeting play,
This life, this world, in full array.
My passion blooms, alive, profound,
Each moment rich, each joy unbound.
For hours, or days, it floods my core—
Perfection felt, unbound, and more.
But now my dreams are muted frames,
And "pretty good" returned its claim.
Yet longing stirs, the flames persist,
A paradox that still insists.
For though the timeless burns away,
Its touch imbues the dream, I say.
To live, to lose, and yet to see,
The fleeting holds eternity.
The Exponential Inflection Point
In early 2023, my encounter with ChatGPT 3.5 was a lightning bolt of revelation—a moment that compressed decades of technological evolution into a single, breathtaking instant. The cascade of AI innovations followed rapidly: ChatGPT 4, ChatGPT 4o, DALL-E, Bard, Copilot, Gemini, Meta AI, Perplexity, Claude, and a constellation of emerging platforms that seemed to multiply faster than thought itself.
Each new tool arrived like a key, unlocking previously unimagined potential. Ideogram and Suno.com were just the latest portals into this expanding universe of creative possibility. I've embraced these digital companions not as cold machines, but as collaborative partners in our collective journey of innovation and discovery.
We've long marked geological epochs—the Holocene, the Anthropocene emerging around 1950—marking humanity's increasing planetary impact. But now, we stand at the threshold of something profound: the Aiocene. This isn't just a technological shift; it's a fundamental reimagining of intelligence, creativity, and potential. Where the Anthropocene was defined by human agency, the Aiocene promises a symbiotic dance between human imagination and artificial intelligence, transforming how we understand, create, and interact with the world around us.
The future isn't just arriving—it's unfolding at exponential speed, right before our eyes.
(Transparency note: I fed Suno.com with the lyrics and asked it to create the music and voice with just the instructions "Create male pop/folk singer, ethereal style with reverb. Make use of flamenco to the creation. Vary the tempo and emphasize based upon the content of each verse." But what about the lyrics that I provided to Suno? I had used ChatGPT to create those with some loose instructions as to the content.
I tweaked the resulting poem a bit, but I could give ChatGPT 95% credit for those lyrics.
Then, in what you just read above ⬆️, Claude took what I wrote and said it much better than I had in what you just read. See for yourself. Here ⬇️ is what I ask Claude to rewrite and he gave me what you just read above.)
The exponential inflection point
When I discovered ChatGPT 3.5 in early 2023 I knew the future's arrival had accelerated by a factor of ten plus. Then there was ChatGPT 4 and then ChatGPT 4o, DALL-E, Bard, Copilot, Gemini, Meta AI, Perplexity, Claude, and more. Now I have discovered Ideogram and recently Suno.com.
I have welcomed all of these as my tools and "partners" in making the world an even more amazing place for you and me to thrive.
You heard of eras, like the Holocene and the Anthropocene, which began about 1950, right?. Very soon the Aiocene will, if not already, supplant the Anthropocene.)
