AI & breath…

Who knows where the next breath might take us?

I read “Stop limiting yourself, here’s 10 AI extensions that will blow your mind!”
Playing with Chat GPT recently left me marvelling but dazed  – like stepping from a quiet rest room in Tibet directly onto Fifth Avenue, New York. A mix of excitement and apprehension, a mixture of exhilaration and trepidation. Perhaps, rather like stepping out of a plane in mid-air?

I had the opportunity this week to fly above the Leicestershire countryside in a Piper aeroplane. It was flown by my wife (with a little help from RAF pilot Sean). It was awesome. The experience gave us just a hint of what flying is. “Power up and bank to the left”… wow! It left us wanting more.

Looking at the latest possibilities in my field of graphic design, the AI tools available are now phenomenal. Amongst others, Adobe CC generative fill features will now create content and adapt images from text prompts, turning a skull in the desert into a lotus flower in the jungle with a few clicks. AI tools, they’re amazing and the potential is ridiculous. The sky’s no longer the limit.

Flying high this week I was privileged to have a taste of something beyond my reach. The potential of current AI technology is also the start of another world beyond the one we currently know.

It might be easy to feel disparaged when experiencing a sense of things beyond one’s reach; if only this, if only that…

But, I am reminded of Icarus, reaching too high, and the flurry of cautionary tales regarding recent automatic AI content ‘creation’.

My other recent reading has been considering the essence of our lives, ‘our breath’.

When we truly breathe, we have an opportunity to expand our life force. The essence of our life, good respiration, can help keep us healthy. To fill our lungs, allows fresh oxygen to be distributed throughout our core. The heart of us can be nurtured, cleansed and rejuvenated by our breath.

As the wave comes, washes over and runs up, then turns around and recedes… back to the ocean, so our being can be washed by a reciprocating, restorative breath. 

Back to sensing life beyond our reach. Perhaps a healthy approach is to be thankful for the fullness of a deep breath. Be content with the content of our liveliness. Once we are thankful for what we have, and release that deep breath with gratitude, who knows where the next breath might take us.

Pause, Breathe, Relax, Smile…