MaeLyn's Musings

Like the morning sun Gently rising, gaining strength: AI overlords! An AI generated image of itself influencing the world It seems like every time I go online or use my cellphone these days, there are invitations to use AI to help me in my tasks. If I do a search on Google, I get an AI overview of whatever topic I looked up. When I open my email, I get summaries of my emails, reminders to pay bills, estimates of package delivery times,  spam emails helpfully filtered out,  even  offers to write my emails for me, all compliments of AI.  Realizing that it has been way too long since my last blog post, I tried an experiment. I asked ChatGPT to write a blog in the style of MaeLyn's Musings on the influence that AI has on our lives today. Here is what it came up with: The Quiet Role AI Plays in Everyday Life Artificial intelligence sounds like a big, complicated idea, but most days it shows up in very small ways. It’s there when a reminder pops up at just the right t...

A week or so ago, I learned that our web host was discontinuing their services. If we wanted to keep our website (stevenmaelyn.com) along with our custom email addresses, we would need to find a new host. Now, some of you will say, "you haven't updated your website in years! Do you really need to keep it?" Well, yes. Why you ask? Because Steven has an online presence that is worth keeping. Open a new window (or tab) in your browser. Go to Google, Yahoo or Bing. Type LDS harmonica music in the search bar. Look for Steven J. Hiatt's Harmonica Music Collection. It's there! Visitors to our web site for the last few years have been looking for harmonica music, not news about our insignificant family. The only other page on our site that gets much use is my children's customized home page , which only they use. Plus there is the fact that I like having a personalized email address. I do have a gmail account as well, but the stevenmaelyn email address is the one ...