I am at a loss for words.
I have this picture in my head, but the words that seem fitting to describe it slip out of the tip of my tongue.
The image was clear in my mind. A clean city with solar photovoltaics installed on the rooftops. I imagined it as an aerial shot, and on one part, I can see people enjoying fresh fruits sold on the streets while a group of people plays guitar. In the background, children are also playing on the streets, still wet from the rain. And because it’s a bright afternoon, the sun glints against the water puddles on the road.
I’m not sure if you’re imagining what I am thinking, but I was hoping the AI could grasp it too. But the image shows you otherwise. Or perhaps, it was almost there. I just don’t have the right words to tell it exactly what I want to see.
In the text-to-image age, it seems that those who know the right words still win over those who find it difficult to say what they mean.
This dilemma reminds me of Seth Godin’s podcast episode about the tension between finding the right words and having the vocabulary to tell them.
How good with words are you?
Here’s a blog post I wrote a year ago (or years ago, depending on how far from the future you’re reading this) about learning to speak and write with links for the open-access eBooks written by Professor Patrick Barry, a Clinical Assistant Professor of Law from the University of Michigan.
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