Gabe and Aakesh: An AI Enhanced Story

An AI generated image given the prompt: “Two men named Gabe and Aakesh at the office.” This is their story.

AI is leaps and bounds from where it was years ago. I remember Windows 7 had introduced voice recognition as a feature. It didn’t work great, but over time it did get better as it trained on your voice. Speed ahead to now and we have speech to text and voice recognition technologies that are almost perfect in the palms of our hands. If you know me, I’ve been messing around with Craiyon, an image generating AI and OpenAI’s GPT-3 based models that generate text based upon a prompt. Codex is another AI model that can generate code given a prompt. I’ve been finding these to be very useful creative tools for writing especially. So, in the spirit of things, I decided to make an AI enhanced story about a couple of guys named Gabe and Aakesh. Be warned: there is a lot of sophomoric activity in the story, but nothing too NSFW. I may even dedicate a separate page to their adventures. We’ll see. Here it goes:

Write a story about Gabe and Aakesh. Gabe and Aakesh are working at the office. Aakesh can’t stop farting and Gabe can’t stop laughing. They go from little toots to cannon-like blasts. Everyone in the office can hear them. 

It was seemingly just another day of work. Gabe and Aakesh were working in the office and Aakesh just couldn’t stop farting. Gabe sat at his desk laughing silently to himself. The first few farts were little toots, but then they started to get bigger and bigger, louder and louder. Soon, everyone in the office could hear them. Aakesh was kind of embarrassed, but Gabe just found it funnier and funnier as his laughs became audible. With his head spinning from embarrassment, Aakesh ran out of the office to try and get away from the smell. As he returns to his desk, Gabe is sitting there, still laughing.

“Dude, I thought you were going to pass out from laughing so hard,” Aakesh says to Gabe as he returns to his desk.

” I thought I was going to die,” Gabe comments, “Seriously, those were some of the most epic farts I’ve ever heard in my life.”

“Thanks man. I’ve been working on them for years,” Aakesh responds, laughing.

“Well, it’s certainly paid off,” Gabe says, still laughing a bit, “You had me in tears.”

” I’m glad you enjoyed it.”

“Oh, I did. But I think I need some fresh air. I’m going to go take a walk.”

“Alright, I’ll see you later.”

“See you.”

Aakesh returns his focus to the project he’s working on as Gabe heads towards the door to get some fresh air. What a day this has been.

 Aakesh felt good about himself. He let out some good farts earlier in the day and knew that his co-workers definitely heard them. As he walked out the door at the end of the day, Gabe gave him a fist bump as a sort of “bro code.” Aakesh was a bit surprised but happy and acknowledged the gesture. He knew that Gabe heard his farts as well and is glad that he wasn’t the only one who thought they were funny.

Well that’s part one of Gabe and Aakesh at the office. This story might need its separate page as I add more material to it. If all goes well, it’ll be a long, hilarious series.

The Weekly Ramble

For me, it’s sometimes difficult to see giant leaps in technological innovations these days. The leaps and bounds of technological advances since the end of WWII seem to have turned into hops and skips. That, or I am missing something or looking entirely in the wrong place. When gadgets such as smartphones receive an update, the changes seem minimal, usually a screen that is more crisp and a camera that can capture more pixels than the last one. A hop I have noticed recently seems to be the folding screen. Big whoop. Although I do think the tech is cool to make it work, it doesn’t seem to be anything more than a hop in advancement. When it comes to a choice of gaming devices, the choice is up to the user’s preference in exclusive titles for each particular platform. All of the hardware performs pretty much at the same level and it is pretty much a matter of software preference these days. Even when it comes to software, changes seem minimal, especially from an end-user standpoint. I hear things about Windows 11 now and again and some pundits say it is basically Windows 10 with a face lift. Overall, the changes I see today seem minimal, especially in consumer-level devices and software. What will be the next big thing that will amaze me?

Apologies for my opening ramble, but sometimes I wonder if technology will make or break us in the future. About five or six years back, I remember thinking that self-driving autonomous vehicles were right around the corner, I thought we’d have them by now! Even today I see articles where Elon Musk states that 2022 is the year. I’m highly skeptical of this, no doubt. One of the reasons I can’t see this happening is I would think the infrastructure of our roads would need to be modified somehow in order for autonomous vehicles to work properly, especially in inclement weather like heavy rain and snow. Again, my research is a bit minimal on this, so I may be missing the details.

Rambling aside, there are many makers out there that are using similar technologies that these self-driving vehicles use to make devices that can help the visually impaired. I remember seeing this article a while back about such a device. It is called the Cane-Eye. It uses several different technologies, including an Xbox Kinect sensor array, to assist the visually impaired. I’d like to see more tech like this at a level that is affordable to the end-user. 

As a dabbler with Raspberry Pi computers, I have gained interest in making certain devices. Recently I’ve been into LoRa, a new type of WAN that can be used in many IoT applications and other projects. One such project that caught my eye was the Ripple project, a neat communicator project that uses the LoRa network to send text messages among users on the network. Something that could be handy when other networks are inaccessible. However, I pulled a boner and got the wrong hardware. I’m no expert in this type of thing, I know a bit of a few programming languages, nothing extensive, and I have little idea if this would even work with the Ripple project. Maybe? I sure would like to know. I have fiddled with these devices a bit and they do seem to work with the debugging software. I as of yet, have not been able to connect them to the Pi Zero as the Zeros I bought came without the I/O pins soldered. So another project for me is to learn how to solder those pins onto the Zero board. That or buy some new ones with the pins pre-soldered.

Phew, that was a rush!

As I write this, I wonder if I should make something of these ramblings. Perhaps a series to keep my mind fresh and exploring things. I’ll call it the Weekly Ramble for now, sound good? Good. That’s all I have for today, thank you for exploring. Catch me again next week.