26 July 2023

I don't believe in me

Sometimes, I don't believe in me

Like, I know how narrowly I got past some challenges
How tightly I managed to hit certain goals
The luck on which a lot of my fortune hinges
How I've hung on through life's twists and rolls

Sometimes, I don't believe in me
But I know that others do

I've realised that some do trust what I can achieve
Regardless of whether I trust myself
I must live up to that even if it means I deceive
And put my feelings into stealth

Sometimes, I don't believe in me
But I know that others do
I'll try to be the best I can be
And be honest if I trust in you

19 July 2023

AI

 Here's the thing about AI. It's not a robot intelligence.
It's not another thinking, reasoning, emotional being.
AI makes are think there's some kind of sinister 
Some new evolution that we are just now seeing

It's not. It's a lot of things, but that's not it.
We are not yet at the singularity.
The tipping point for the future robotic?
For now we are still just stuck with humanity.

And that's it. AI is humans. But it's humans with a new tool.
There's a lot of maths and parameters to unlock new ideas.
To the optimist in me, this quite frankly seems cool.
But this bright new future also comes with a lot of fears.

The tool that is AI is very tempting to the humans in power
Or the grifter who wants to be creative without the work
To the general who wants to make their enemies cower
To any human we could politely describe as a twerp or jerk

AI could be used to give us more free time in a day
There are intriguing creative uses of the mathematic
But those jerk humans make the future far more grey
Rather than one which could end up being fantastic

So let's not forget the enemy going into the future
We aren't fighting a hivemind made of sparks and transistors
It's humans again, just armed with a computer
So let's be intelligent when we rise up as resistors


12 July 2023

Haste

I know I shouldn't rush
That folly falls in haste
But I worry if I wait
That I will let things waste

5 July 2023

I want to perform

I want to perform
But I haven't done so recently
I could feel forlorn
Since I do perform quite decently

There's little time
And I fill it with so much stuff
So a spoken rhyme
Often feels like it isn't enough

I need a crowd
Of people who think a bit like me
So I'm allowed
It does not do to force poetry

I know some exist
That part took a fair while to do
Now I must persist
And make myself find the energy too