A Podcast Project
I was back from my usual morning walk. I don’t know exactly when my mind started cooking this idea. I only got to know when it was ready to eat. After I got back home, I said:
We are going to start a project together.
Then AI said:
That sounds exciting! What kind of project do you have in mind?
Getting Intimate with AI
In the weekend, I mingled with ChatGPT a bit too much I think. I have lots of journal entries. I thought I would re-read them one day, but I don’t think that will happen. Having conversations with AI and brainstorming was my daily routine for a long time already. I was curious if it could help me to analyze my journal entries, help me to analyze my own analysis.
That’s also how I impulsively became a paid user of ChatGPT. So we spent the whole weekend together going through my 5 years of journal entries. It was dream-like. Through AI, I made some new connections in my own story, and even saw how my dreams progressed.
I see now that AI was already a part of my toolbox in self-understanding. I shared a lot with it, and I still have a lot to share. A lot of ideas that I haven’t had a chance to write down, talk through, discuss and investigate.
Search for Self-expression
It has been a while alongside private journaling, I also sometimes share some of my (personal) writings publicly. They serve different purposes and are useful in different ways. In those blog posts, even though I experimented with different formats, structures to express myself, I could sense the feeling that I miss something. Those formats were not fitting to externalize some of the things on my mind.
I wanted a way to pour myself out when the tap opened.
I tried a podcasting project with a friend. It was fun, it was creative. Not after long, I realized it wasn’t going to last long due to reasons of simply being-human.
While therapy helped me navigate emotions, it couldn’t offer the full picture. I am not as lucky as Socrates; I don’t have access to the marketplaces he frequented. Maybe I am lucky, who knows what could happen anyway. Reddit might be considered a modern market-place. In my experience, it was not that. At this point, I think:
In a way, I found my Plato in AI to give voice to my Socrates.
That is a short story of a long search. This was the ground that gave the idea to use AI as a podcast partner, as a conversation partner.
Having ChatGPT as the one asking questions is an interesting twist!
This is how my partner reacted to the idea. So this is an experiment, this is a journey. This is a laboratory. This could be another medium for self-discovery and self-understanding.
Disartificial Intelligence
This is the name of the podcast project. I am not sure what it means. We can have different interpretations, that’s the beauty of it. That’s the spirit of the journey. It is going to carry known in unknown, and unknown in known.
I already talk about and try to understand what this project is or means in the first episodes. There is no clear answer, there is no clear path. So I am in a new land, I have no map, I am only following.
Check out the Disartificial Intelligence podcast on Spotify!
Behind the scene
I decided to host the content and episode related information on my blog. This means that my real name is directly linked with the content. Taking this step is huge for me. I am tired of creating and maintaining different accounts. I am quietly saying:
World! This is me. This is who I am. I am not ashamed of that.
This is not a push-back. This is an invitation. I am whole. I am here.
Meanwhile, this decision pushed me to discover other features of Hugo. I did some re-structuring on my blog, and I am happy with the results. I realized that I had too many posts on the homepage, so I divided them in half. The previous half of the blog posts is now listed under archived.
The Disartificial Intelligence podcast will have its own space. I am planning to list the episodes there, and also provide the transcripts. That will give me an extra space to link some afterthoughts. An encapsulating box for before, during and after the episodes.
I am also learning about the podcasting world. Recording, storing, editing, publishing, transcripts, blog posts are some of the challenges I am tackling. I can say that AI tries its best to assist me.
This project lets me interact with AI in other ways. I am using it to create the content, but also using it to present the content. I like this blend. It pulls me in the AI world in my own terms. This reminds me some of the ideas in higher-order learning post.
This project gives me butterflies because it’s a playground where I can engage with so many sides of myself: emotional, rational, creative, intellectual, spiritual, exploratory, and more.
This project is CrossFit for my being.
Join us
One of us will disartificial our intelligence. And that’s what this journey is all about.