This is Technology Bytes, episode 162 for April 12th, 2026.
Technology Bytes is a microcast where I share brief bytes on interesting technology.
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This week, I’m doing artificial intelligence revisited.
I spoke about it some time ago, and really my interaction with it hasn’t changed at all since that microcast, but I wanted to come back to it and just have an additional conversation, probably more to figure out what’s wrong with me than anything else.
So, I’m a tech guy, and I love technology, and I am often the early adopter for given technologies, but not when it comes to artificial intelligence.
I don’t know what it is.
I have some kind of strange aversion to using it.
I don’t know if I feel like I’m cheating, or I feel like maybe that I just don’t trust artificial intelligence to provide me good answers, and yet I do searches.
I do other things that might use machine learning and other artificial intelligence adjacent technologies, and maybe it’s my age.
I’m not sure what it is, but there’s just something that keeps me from using artificial intelligence on any type of regular basis, or maybe even any type at all.
More and more, I find myself being challenged to use artificial intelligence in different areas of my life, mostly at work.
I’ve had my boss who, I guess I’m what, 10 years, 5 years, 7, I don’t know, years older than him, but he just loves to use artificial intelligence in all kinds of areas of his work, and I don’t use it at all.
Now, he does a lot more writing and other kinds of things because he’s the owner of the company.
I do a lot more actions, but I am leading people, and so I’ve also been challenged by a consultant that we use for HR functionality at the moment to potentially use artificial intelligence to help me communicate more clearly with my team, and I don’t know.
I’m like, how could artificial intelligence know more about production than I do?
Well, it’s because it can read everything that the internet or maybe the world has to offer, so it obviously has more access.
Well, maybe not more access because I have access to all of it as well, but the ability to see it all and then to do some summarization, maybe I could get some benefit from using it, and maybe I just need to, but I’m strangely adverse to it, as I said, so it is very challenging for me at the moment.
Then I wonder what would it take to cause me to change?
I believe my kids use artificial intelligence fairly regularly.
My son’s a coder, so to me that makes sense.
I feel like if I was doing code and I was struggling with a function or a functionality that I might be tempted or want to use artificial intelligence to help me get past some kind of sticking point in what I’m trying to do.
My daughter uses it often just for answering everyday common types of questions, so she’ll call me and say, you know, what do you think about this?
I have this house problem.
I have this something else, and she said, I asked ChatGPT, and he said, or it said, and so it’s so funny because, you know, I see people using it on the regular, and I’m like, what would cause me to want to use it?
Oftentimes I think if I had a use and I just used it once, that maybe the result would make me want to use it more, but I’ve got to get to that once first.
You know I live in the Apple environment, and you know that Apple has not done really well at artificial intelligence at this point.
Now, all of the artificial intelligence brains are available in the iPhone.
There are apps that you can download, that you can do it from the web, lots of ways to get to artificial intelligence using an iPhone.
So I’m thinking if it was more readily available, would I use it?
But it is very readily available.
Sometimes I think maybe if it was more built in, just more common sense of availability in my current tech stack.
Maybe if Apple’s S-Lady would be more artificially intelligent, maybe that would make me want to do it.
Whatever it is, I think I need to find that trigger.
I need to find that change point, and I need to figure out a way to get on board and learn more about this technology and how it’s useful and how to use it and when it’s wrong and when it doesn’t work.
Otherwise, I fear I may be getting left behind.
Now, my job doesn’t rely on using Apple intelligence or artificial intelligence, either one.
Maybe I could do it better if I found a way to use it, but maybe not.
I don’t know.
But with the challenges that I have been given from people that I work with, with the availability of artificial intelligence to help in given situations, I don’t know.
Get on board or I get left behind, and that feels really weird to me because I am a tech guy.
I love technology.
Why do I not like artificial intelligence?
I don’t know the answer to that.
Well, that’s all I have for today.
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