AI can’t do your living for you.

Los Angeles, California. Sunday. It’s 1:37 p.m. and 75ºF.

I’m walking to the park. Before I get there, I stop, talk to a lady, and her mostly-hairless dog.

“That’s an interesting-looking dog,” I say.

“She has alopecia,” she replies.

“What’s her name?” I ask.

“Maggie,” she says.

A simple conversation. But then, she asks:

“Hey, can I ask for your help? There’s this machete sticking out here. I don’t want any kids to walk by and grab it. Could you help me put it somewhere?”

A black handle with a rusted, coffee-colored blade sticks out of the ground at foot level. I didn’t see it until she pointed it out.

“Is it your machete?” I ask.

“No, I think it belongs to the gardeners that come. They probably just forgot it when they left.”

A weird series of events—my instincts said don’t touch it.

“That’s a good idea. You should lay it behind that tree. It might be a good place to hide it. When the gardeners come back, they’ll surely find it.”

She grabs the machete, walks it up the slight mound, then lays it down.

The conversation continued a bit more. We wished each other great days, and that was it.

Why am I sharing this story with you?

Because AI is getting too damn good.

But here’s the good thing: it can’t live for you. It can’t be curious for you. It can’t take action for you.

It can reflect, expand ideas, and poke at your fallacies.

But it can’t live for you.

It can’t take in your reality, see it how you see it, and turn it into something.

To explain what I mean, imagine this quick story I shared as a scene in a show or movie:

A man is going for a walk, enjoying his day, when a woman with a suspicious tone and bald, creature-like dog asks him about a possible murder weapon. Confused—and now an accomplice for helping her move it off her property—he falls deeper into mysterious events that may cost him his life.

AI couldn’t have created this for you—because it doesn’t create.

It relays information it already knows.

You can teach AI on Shakespeare’s writing, but you can’t teach AI on Shakespeare himself.

AI doesn’t see the present through your eyes—judging and critiquing it all, never realizing how it’s all material.

That’s only something you can do.

Or so I think,

George