This is the last time I write about artificial intelligence. Promise. If you check my recent posts, you’ll notice I seem to know no other topic than AI. That’s troubling.
Even my family and anyone who mentions this topic in passing must endure my endless monologues about all the changes artificial intelligence will bring in the future. It’s horrible. I can barely stand listening to myself.
The excitement and the challenges
I’m increasingly aware that I sound like a wound-up robot with wide eyes, talking about all the exciting new possibilities but also the massive challenges. What’s clear is that I haven’t been this stirred up about something in ages. Maybe because it hits me completely and with full force.
But I also notice I’m falling back into an old pattern, and that’s exactly what I don’t want. I’ve committed to fully exploiting the possibilities of artificial intelligence. Of course there’s this inner drive to constantly report on it, evaluate it, give tips and advice.
I could offer coaching for using artificial intelligence and its tools and strategies. I could consult. There’d probably be many clients interested in that.
The decision against coaching
But no. I’ve consciously decided against it, because my experiences as a coach and consultant in social media showed me I don’t thrive in that role.
Why? It doesn’t feel right. I try to sell people something they resist. I don’t want to sell them a glittering, colourful world of artificial intelligence when they don’t actually see it that way, but only participate because it’s considered proper form. That’s how I feel about it.
Or at least how I felt about it in social media. Back then I suddenly became a salesperson for the great possibilities of social media, where business ultimately only revolves around mutual flattery and “influencing” to sell more.
Self-realisation through application
This time I don’t want to sell anything, but use it myself instead of just talking about it. Because my topic isn’t artificial intelligence. At most it helps me as a tool to produce more than I consume.
If artificial intelligence helps me think better and more precisely and express what’s inside me, what moves me, then that’s enough.
I don’t want to waste my time writing about AI on a meta level, but I want to write on a content level about things that really matter to me. So I’m officially stopping my published thoughts on artificial intelligence and will report on other topics that are much closer to me personally.
Look forward to my next posts on completely different topics. And please remind me if I drift back to a meta level.
First appeared in German on reinergaertner.de, my blog since 1997. AI-assisted translation — because life’s too short to translate 150 posts by hand, but too long to leave them in German.