Weather Vanes As Primitive AI?

The whale weather vane and artificial intelligence have tiny similarities. Only the latter learns but both inform us and neither understands or feels the way living things do. The Poets and Storytellers United prompt "AI" had me thinking that the pixel-data manipulator mimicking life is mechanical but also mercurial like pixie dust in the wind. 

I realized that the  art's program I used to edit the photo (below) was done with the help of AI, normalized in ways we don't even recognize. It's in our phones, cameras, computers and most services and spaces we utilize regularly.

   

By the looks of the computer image, it's easy to see I took that picture years ago. There has been much progress since then; technology moves rapidly. It's expansion is frightening and exciting. AI taps into all existing knowledge to assist humanity but as we rely on it more will we become less adept or more wise? I don't know. I do know there's an earlier intelligence, before AI came along, embedded in every seed and creature that instinctively knows how to grow ... some even cry real soppy tears.

     

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Harmony On An Off-Key Day

The Poets and Storytellers United prompt "lyrics from a song that annoys us" intersected with my revisit to Elgin Heritage Park where birds filled the air with Spring songs. Their wordless melodies overtook the exasperated "lyrics" I had created while listening to news of the day. If open to it, harmony exists even when life is off-key.

         

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To-Do List For The Meek

The Poets and Storytellers United prompt "To-Do List" has me pondering how world peace has topped aspirational lists even since biblical times. No deity will save us from ourselves but on a small scale, humanity has might on its side. Breathing in the sweet scents of spring at Elgin Heritage Park, I thought, if all who abhor senseless loss and weaponry prioritize nonviolence, the "meek" shall inherit the Earth. Voting and challenging leaders tops the lists of the gently persistent meek. To-do means doing, not a Resolution to forget each New Year. It is pursuing the possible in the impossible.

     

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Being Penelope Puddle In White Rock

Penelope Puddle lives in my imagination as well as in book and greeting card forms at the White Rock Museum, a former train station in the small charm-filled community in Western Canada near the US border. Its population of some 20,000 greets thousands more visitors from around the globe yearly. The Poets and Storytellers United prompt "inhabit a character in a myth or fable" inspired me to write a poem about my locally known Penelope character and her umbrella after recently dropping off some cards.

The Museum is on the ocean side and just steps away from the beach and pier.

Across the street there are many shops and restaurants ... the one serving something called "bubble tea" sounds like a good one to try.

To get to the beach one must first cross the tracks running alongside the former station. Many trains go by daily. This includes the Amtrack traveling from Seattle, Washington, to Vancouver in B.C., as well as strings of freight cars carrying hazardous goods. So a bit of anxiety is mixed with the excitement and wonder a train brings.

Solutions are slow to come but concerns have resulted in a well-placed fence near where trees are in no hurry to bloom and Penelope settles on a shelf at the gift shop.

Did you ever have a pretend friend? My daughter provided me with the Penelope character through her paintings when she was a child. Her imagination piqued mine.

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