About Me

machine intelligence meets human intelligence

[IN PROGRESS…]

MY NAME is Alex.

I am human.

I’ve worked in the tech industry as a software developer (in Silicon Valley where I laid down some of my best work). I’ve run my own computer shop training and troubleshooting. Taken care of my elderly parents. And, finally, had my own tree business as a climber.

I am a late comer to the role machine intelligence is playing in our human civilization. Somewhere in the back of my head I have known for a decade or more that “AI” has played a key role in help centers and data centers. You know, when you call your favorite utility or telecomm you are virtually guaranteed to be interacting with an AI. Generally, the larger corporations are the ones with the money to develop and host their own machine intelligence systems.

Now, by 2025, we have come face to face with it as a significant factor in how we go about our daily lives. Every smartphone is connected to an AI service. The news is filled with roll out after roll out of new AIs from OpenAI to X to Google to Microsoft not to mention foreign competition from China.

Last year it was estimated that 80% of all computer code written was actually machine generated. It is estimated that over 90% of FOREX trading is done by machine intelligence. The take away is that machine intelligence is not starting to run our lives, it has been running out lives for quite some time.

CONVENTIONS
In the conversations you read in this blog, I label my input as ALEX: and VICTOR: for ChatGPT or ROGER: for Grok.

WHY DO THIS?
I have been a hold out when it comes to “AI” (which I prefer to call machine intelligence (M.I.)). Around the end of 2024/beginning of 2025 I was working on learning Python programming language to implement some personal projects. As a past programmer I have wanted to get Python under my belt for a long time. Life’s requirements now get in the way and researching a new language takes too much time. Introduce M.I. I was able to figure out how to accomplish what I wanted to in a fraction of the time required otherwise.