Yesterday I wrote about how I am using the Botpress AI Agent to provide answers to questions related to my content. I instructed the agent to consider only my content in responses, nothing from the outside. 

I was taking about this with my 6-year-old son and asked him what he would like to ask daddy using the AI robot. He wanted me to ask about the Titanic (a topic he has been obsessed about). I have never written anything about the titanic on this site or in my books.

Here we go. Before the answer at the top of the screen, I asked whether all answers and content is from Abscondo.com and my books. See the answer below:

Then it gets even more interesting:

Apparently Botpress lied here. It brought in external content after just previously claiming that it does not. When I questioned further about it, it almost seems to feel guilty and explain it away as an error. No apology, only an attempt to keep the tone light. 

My overall observations during these few days playing with Botpress is that their AI is too biased with normal, mainstream information and ways of thinking. If content is unconventional, it appears unable to filter out bias and present that content accurately. Even if I ask the agent to filter out external content, and it claims to have done, it cannot or refuses to. 

It cannot understand. It cannot love. It cannot express wisdom. It can only think, but thinking isn't it. The truth is always beyond thought, in the formless. At best, AI is only ego.

I am deleting AI from this blog. Fun experiment though!

If you're like me, you're cautious when it comes to using AI out of concern that it will replace the human element of what you're good at.

I'm a writer. If I were to believe that AI is capable of performing better than me, then are my skills useful? I've tested a few AI tools over the past few days and will share my experiences. 

I came across this free AI agent tool called Botpress and wanted to try it on this blog. I configured it to look at the thousands of posts on this site as well as the content of my two eBooks. Now Abscondo.com site visitors can use the tool to essentially ask me a question and receive an AI response based solely on my content. Intriguing right?

I tested it out with a few meaningful questions and the responses were pretty accurate and insightful. I needed to provide extra instructions about how to answer, but this was easy and the changes were instant. For example, I instructed the agent, instead of replying with "we here at Abscondo.com believe...", say "I believe. The change was easy.

Botpress is a bit tech-heavy but a lot of fun. I think this chat agent provides my audience with a way to target a response based on what they are going through or what they are curious about. It feels like my human, personal, spiritual content is brought to life!

My only challenge, funny enough, was to configure the floating chat icon in the bottom right corner of this page. I spent way too much time on this and just couldn't crack it. I added a link on in the navigation, but you can also access to the tool using that strange circular icon on this page. 

Another recent AI use-case: I'm also working on launching a lingerie brand with my wife called Honest Underneath. Could I use something like ChatGPT to improve the copy on the website? Humbled as a writer, I found that the platform took our content to the next level. I really like the way the copy reads. My role, as a marketing and writer, was to structure it and select the parts that make sense and reject the rest. There is still a lot to do as a creative professional, but the result is way beyond what I could have done alone.

Maybe I will create some music videos using AI tools. It could go a long way to brining my music catalog to life.

I will almost certainly be using ChatGPT more in my sales email writing. This will allow me to A/B test my copy vs. the AI copy created with my guidance. Let's see which version generates a higher open and response rate.

I'm a latecomer to this technology, but so far it feels as though AI enhances real-life creativity without replacing it. I feel in control, but willing to trust the tools a lot more than I thought I would. As with any technology, perhaps the question is how it should be used vs. whether it should be used.

I believe that AI can be amazing if real-life humans guide it with our conscious perspective.