Artificially Yours?

I'll be honest, I'm at least in the current day truly thankful for artificial sweeteners. Time will of course tell whether cancer or other physical illness issues will be the result of these but so far I'm grateful for something that helps me lose and maintain healthy weight.

Artificial Intelligence is in my personal view, a loaded gun much like the internet and technology in general. It certainly has pros as well as cons, that much also seems true. In my view the possibilities regarding medical health may be the truly good in it's future use.

As a guitarist I've only kept 4 foot pedals close at hand to use now and then in solo blues shows. Our Grrr Records/Tone Zone Recording staff has a LOT of 'em along with all the other studio rack mount and other effects for use, and I use more still for GKB gigs.

There is a core issue at hand in all this. The soul of sound isn't only a matter of added gear. It begins with great tone of instrument and/or amp and the like. Before that it's about one's mind and sense of tone, what we imagine and create prior to plugging into this or that.

"Artificial" isn't real and at times doesn't taste or sound (my analogies here) authentic, not for the most part or for those with a discerning ear, taste buds, and heart.

I recently did something in social media I super-rarely do quoting a discussion between two peeps regarding AI and art, where the supposed convo (Snopes cleared it up, the discussion never took place and in fact was generated by AI!) included statements about the lack of feelings to which I added comments on both that as well as love NOT being possible in an app or machine.

We may and at times of course really do find tech and not-real sugar sweeteners good, helpful, beneficial. Regarding love and feelings, art of any sort may and I believe at times does come across as -artificial-. In music it's like the singer lip-syncing in a live show... it ain't for real.

Studios (and I myself) have long been wise to use outboard gear to fix sharp and/or flat vocal tracks but "perfect" isn't human and for us to fall into such can and at times will blemish our imperfections (you read that right) and thus our actual humanity.

We may take the option to live in a play-world, a false, constructed pseudo-reality which much like reality shows, -ain't-!

The world may come to use robots so life-like (note... "like", not "genuine") that for some, artificial relationships including not only sex but a listening fake "person" and "confidant" replaces the struggles and pains, sacrifices and deep benefits of genuine marriage and daily life with an actual human -but it will be artificial and lacking soul no matter how supposedly good and even excellent some will consider such pseudo-life.

Things to consider as the world slowly unwinds prior to the real Lord and King returning.

As always, thanks for stopping by. -Glenn