[Hoot Gibson]

AI is interesting.  I am just completely ignorant of it.  I did see an interview with Elon Musk where he stated that AI is about 10 years away from possible having the ability to take over the human race in a hostile manner.  I am paraphrasing of course.

That may be true, but with the current state of technology, AI models do not actually think, they mimic thinking and do it really fast. So far, almost all I have done on my football ranker project is to give Grok Code Fast the project requirements, test the code by trying to run it, and then posting any error messages that I get or problems that I see with the results.

The AI is having trouble automatically generating a list of Kentucky teams and scores, so I am going to provide it a list of teams and team IDs used by the Riehard's KHSAA scoreboard website by creating and then uploading an Excel spreadsheet to the AI. I will also give it a description of where the team's class, nickname, location, etc. appear each team's page.

I will gradually do the same thing for each of the 8 states that border Kentucky so that I can rank teams in a 9-state area for including out-of-state games the Kentucky rankings. By the end of 2025, I will be ready to import the 2026 team names and IDs so that I can begin ranking teams in Week 1 of the 2026 season.

I like to cook and enjoy eating good food even more, so using AI to generate recipes was my main gateway into AI use. I can ask AI to suggest spicy Indonesian chicken recipes, and I will have as many recipes as I want in less than a minute. I can then request versions of the recipes using sous-vide, Instapot, crock pot, gas range, oven, microwave, etc., and a few seconds later, AI creates the customized directions. Recipe creation is a simple application of AI, but it involves the same basic steps as more complex applications.

You can also ask AI to teach you how to use it effectively. AI can tutor you on any subject at s basic to pHD expert level and it will present the tutorials on the grade level that you specify. The technology already exists for AI to produce video tutorials, but the barrier for that is the cost of AI "tokens" to produce the videos. It requires a lot of power and computer hardware to create long videos, and that feature does not come with free versions of AI.

Generating images is also easy to do with AI programs. Here is a link to an image that I just created with Grok showing Doc Brown about to leave Hitler, Stalin, and Mao, 65 million years in the past. The depiction of Mao is not very good, but Hitler, Stalin, and Doc Brown are easily recognizable.

https://assets.grok.com/users/19182a6a-0.../image.jpg