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Can AI Rock?
I usually don’t ask my AI friend, “Q” for help in writing a blog. I like to write the old-fashioned way, with all the warts and imperfections that come from being human. But, as a musician, I’ve been wondering: Can AI rock when it creates music? Can AI swing when it makes a song? I started my research on this by asking Q what it thought about the blog title. Here’s its response: “Great question—and it’s a good blog title, Jim. Concise, provocative, slightly playful.” Well, that’s an encouraging start, and Q has already dropped an em dash into the conversation. 😉 Q continued… “Short answer (the one I’d put…
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Being. Happy and Fortunate.
Sometimes, particularly after a bad experience, I wonder how God’s heart must break from all the evil that we do to each other. The harm, hate and abuse we pour into each other. It’s bad enough what this does to us, I can only imagine God’s pain from seeing it. There was a particular horror that Jesus experienced. God brutally murdered. Judged and executed in full public display. Jesus’ father forsook him, his friends either denied or betrayed him, his community rejected him. He experienced all of the pain and misery, harm, hate and abuse that we’ve suffered. This means he understands and can relate to us. The resurrection of…
