I Blame Myself Week: Day Three
/The big day is here! What follows (below the robot emojis) is the first magic blog post written using AI (artificial intelligence)!
The company that created this technology is called Writesonic. Their marketing material says, “Say goodbye to writer’s block. With Writesonic's AI-powered writing tools, you can generate high-performing Ads, Blogs, Landing Pages, Product Descriptions, Ideas and more in seconds.”
A “high performing blog” is precisely what I’m looking for. After 6+ years of the middling performance blog I’ve churned out, I’m happy to turn this over to the computers to run.
Here we go! As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, the first paragraph was written by me, but everything else is going to come from the AI as it sifts through all of human knowledge on the internet and crafts what will undoubtedly be a compelling piece of writing. My only concern is that it might be too brilliant for our mere human minds to comprehend. But hey, that will just force us to evolve our thinking faster, right?
If this goes as well as I’m expecting, these words I’m writing now might be the last words typed by human hands on this blog. I want to thank all of you who supported this site up to this point, and I’m sure you’re going to love Jerx 2.0.
What comes next is genuinely what the AI provided to me as a blog post about magic tricks and performing as an amateur magician. I haven’t read it yet myself, I’m going to read it along with you….
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Confessions of an Amateur Magician: How to Perform Magic Tricks at Home
I'm an amateur magician, and I'm going to share with you my dirty little confession about how I perform magic tricks at home. The professional magician has a stage to perform from. That gives him instant credibility. As an amateur, I don't have a stage. I've got the part of my room the futon is in, and the part of the room the tv is in. And then I have the kitchen that I share with Trent. But he doesn't like me performing magic in there. So really I just have the futon and TV area. And I CERTAINLY don't have Trent's room. That's off limits. So here's how I perform magic tricks at home.
The Amateur Magician
Stand in one of two corners of the room. Stand in one corner, in the vicinity of a chair or couch. Put your hands down. Raise your hands to your face. Have an expectant smile on your face. When you get a look from your neighbor, immediately lower your hands. When you can look back up, proceed to show them the trick you just performed. The Professional Magician Stand in one corner, not too near a chair or couch. Stand on a chair, or a table. Put your hands down. Relax into a smiling look. Ask your neighbor if they mind if you perform a magic trick. Have an expectant smile on your face. When your neighbor says no, have your hands down again. If they do want to see the trick, it's yours for the taking. The Amateur Magician Lay flat on the floor face up. Get comfy.
How to Perform Magic Tricks at Home
The first thing I do is grab my pocket knives and attach one to my arm and one to my belt loop. I then I load a pair of jingly keys into my pocket. I know how to do the quick change so I can undo my pants and put on my pants and tie my boots back up. And then, since I have jingly keys in my pocket and jingly keys in my pocket, I can easily and quietly remove my pants and boots. So I do that. And this time I don't jingle my keys because I don't want to ruin it. But if I need to jingle the keys I can do it in a safe, quiet place where no one can see me. I don't know why I decided to remove my boots instead of my pants but that's what I decided to do. I do the quick change and then I stand at the bottom of the stairs. I'm holding my pocket knives and jingly keys at the bottom of the stairs.
Conclusion
This doesn't sound like it's going to work, but it works. But like all good magic, it's not easy. I can do this in front of Trent, but only if I'm comfortable with his reactions. And that's tough. He has these great, sharp ears and they pick up the slightest change in me. So I have to use it. I'm going to be in front of him with my own recorded video and I'm going to ask for his reaction. Then I'm going to walk away. I'll ask him to be honest and tell me if he thinks the thing I just did is magical. Or if he thinks it's boring and isn't worth paying attention to. Then I'll wait. And I'll start performing the trick again. This time I won't hit pause. I'll have him keep his eyes on me. And he won't be able to see me on the screen. So I have to have a good visual on him.
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Huh…
Hold on everyone. I have to check something.
Okay. I’m back. So, according to the doctor, I’m not having a stroke.
I went back and read the article and I’m honestly a little confused by some of it. A lot of it actually. I’m not sure if it’s the situation where—as I mentioned previously—it’s just too advanced for my mind to understand. But I don’t think that’s it.
You know what? I blame myself. In yesterday’s post I mentioned how I was given the option to choose which outline to use for my AI generated article, and I chose the most open-ended one. That was a mistake. Of course AI is going to require a little more guidance in order to give us the really good stuff. What was I thinking? Haha. Okay, my bad.
Take two.
Tomorrow is when the dawn of a new era in magic writing truly begins and the AI tackles this outline…
This looks like it’s going to be a much more fruitful article. You’re going to get a card trick, a pocket trick, a coin trick, a disappearing coin trick, a vanishing or appearing handkerchief trick. Just by looking at that outline I can tell that this material might almost be too good for the free site and should maybe just be for supporters. But I think I’ll throw you a bone and give everyone the goods. (You’re welcome.)
See you back here tomorrow when the real future of magic content begins!