Every other columnist I read these days strains over the addition of AI–computers writing their words.
Before ‘artificial intelligence,’ writers got an idea then jumped out of bed and went to their keypad. For example, 2:43 AM for this ideation.
Or the writer made an entry on the note pad near his bed, or sent herself a notation to read come morning.
And even centuries before. The French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal in his later years repented from devising formulas that let gamblers “beat the house.” Pascal checked himself into a monastery. Wore the ecclesiastical wardrobe. And when he received inspiration, he jotted himself a paper note and pinned it inside his robe.
Msg 33459 You’re stuck. End with this paragraph devised from your Style in previous Words stored as dickelam.com Go on back to bed.
And that, fellow columnists, was the beginning of AI “Added Ideas.”
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