Category: Essays

  • A Year with AI: Reflections on the Future

    A Year with AI: Reflections on the Future

    Exactly one year ago, my book, ‘Blueberry & the Bear and Other Stories,’ made its debut. It holds the distinction of being the world’s first collection of bedtime stories authored using ChatGPT, with illustrations generated by Dall-E2. It meant I collaborated with a Large Language Model and a Diffusion Model, serving as my co-author and…

  • Women in AI is not about gender equality. It’s about our survival as a species

    Women in AI is not about gender equality. It’s about our survival as a species

    We are celebrating International Girls in ICT Day today, April 27th, 2023. I’ve seen numerous posts on social and traditional media throughout March and April showcasing women working in tech, including an impressive list of 100 women in the field of AI here in Norway. There has also been an array of events centered around…

  • Example of 100% AI generated content

    Example of 100% AI generated content

    This is an example of content completely generated by AI (ChatGPT via its API integrated in WordPress via GPT AI Power plugin). After being presented with the prompt to generate an argumentative article about how “AI is only biased as it is mirroring our societal and human failures.” it generated the following list of possible…

  • Welcome to Blueberry Thoughts

    Welcome to Blueberry Thoughts

    A blog at the intersection of human creativity and artificial intelligence Hello and welcome to the blog of Ionut Burchi, father of three, IT consultant, web veteran and AI realist. I have started an awareness campaign on the possibilities, challenges and dangers the recent developments in the field of artificial intelligence have to offer. This…

  • Jules Verne meets Idiocracy

    Jules Verne meets Idiocracy

    A techno-pessimist view of machines across the ages I had the idea for this article in mind for some time and decided to write it together with ChatGPT. In the process I found out we share a love of Jules Verne and a concern for responsible development when it comes to AI. Imagine a world…

  • Ghost kitchen leftovers

    Ghost kitchen leftovers

    The case for a rating system for AI involvement in content generation Have you ever heard of the term “ghost kitchen”? No, it’s not some spooky place where chefs are replaced by ghosts. It’s where AI-generated content is being cooked up! And let’s face it, you don’t know what’s in your meal until you try…

  • “The child in the dark room” metaphor on AI

    “The child in the dark room” metaphor on AI

    On December 16th 2022 my book “Blueberry & the Bear and Other Stories” was published on Amazon in Kindle and paperback format. I used the AI tools ChatGPT and DALL-E2 from OpenAI as co-author and illustrator respectively. A couple of weeks later I have launched an instagram account called visitAInorway where I publish images generated…