Darryl makes useful things using AI.

What I do now

I started coding in grade six on a Commodore PET and got onto the web in 1993. Since then I have been the information architect, the UX designer, the back-end and front-end developer, the sysadmin, the department head and the college teacher.

Recently, I've discovered that I have a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me very good at using AI to build things that would never have been built otherwise.

Where I stand on AI

AI should mostly be used for useful things, not just the frivolous.

AI is a very divisive topic. It can truly be a source of so much good, resulting in things like earlier health diagnoses and better climate modelling. But it comes at a cost - sustaining AI needs a lot of power and a lot of cooling. And so much of this is being driven by profit, which inevitably leads to the rampant frivolous use of AI. Giving people a fun easy way to create memes and silly songs so they can be kept engaged and captive to advertising seems like a waste of resources. I believe that AI is both an existential threat to humanity and a path to humanity reaching its full potential. I think it's pretty cool that we get to pick the threat or the potential, simply by choosing how we use and interact with AI.

Read more on my views of AI