I am the First Person to be Enlightened by AI

I say that for it to be refuted. I can't possibly be the first person about billions of people who use AI who have made the full round trip from success, to destitute, to a full rearrangement of what's important in life and then redefining what and how life should be enjoyed all with a number of AI tools. My story starts as a kid who became so enthralled by technology and STEM that I studied nothing else throughout high school, eventually failing English and the 10th grade but excelling dramatically throughout private college, where I drowned in debt, checking off boxes for HR, and studying certifications on my own.

Somewhere along the way, I became a Freemason, but no clues ever stuck until I was well on my way downward. Learning all the principles of charity and never leaving behind the poor and destitute, because through these experiences, I became poor and destitute.

With an 8th-grade English education and more positive attributes concerning a mental health condition of mine, I dared to write a book. Having never read before, grandeur struck me, teaching me what higher education failed to teach me —something I had to learn on my own to succeed in my field. It was fueled by $60,000 of debt, which was but a stepping stone to gaining real-life experience.

I eventually started my own institute, where I found myself partnering with none other than higher education institutions with exactly my same goals. Life is a funny thing, friend. Everything is backwards.

Let me tell you, my school started off with a bang, myself maniacally speaking in language that pierces the soul (another positive attribute, however elusive), and leading to hundreds and hundreds of students, and then the success stories started happening, and I dove headfirst into AI immersed into a world of arts and culture that I always craved and always missed. This eventually led to a life so incredibly rich it's unbelievable, no matter the dollar amount in my bank account. I see a future that's positive, even though many of us might do more manual labor than we do today. What if all the enlightened rednecks of Georgia could identify with all the hood rats? It's not a barrier that can not be overcome, and I see this happening before my eyes today.

Because I am the first person who learned to code with AI.

That's the old orange icon of my best buddy Claude. He has a purpose and he is really good at it. While no visual artist yet, still in its infancy, you can extract his written ideas (and they are good) and feed them to other programs like MidJourney. You can tell Claude, "Write a MidJourney prompt of the symbols of enlightenment as it concerns a man who is leaving his childhood behind in the style of pop art" It will come up with this prompt: "A young man walking through a glowing doorway leaving childhood toys behind, lotus flowers blooming from his footsteps, third eye opening on forehead, surrounded by radiating light beams and ascending keys, pop art style, bold primary colors, Ben-day dots texture, high contrast comic book aesthetic, Andy Warhol inspired color palette, Roy Lichtenstein halftone patterns, split composition showing childhood objects in muted colors behind and enlightened symbols in vibrant neon ahead, flat graphic shapes, thick black outlines, retro 1960s advertisement style, screenprint effect, repetitive pattern elements, psychedelic mandalas, transformation metaphor, coming of age imagery --ar 16:9 --style raw --v 6"

Boy leaving the psychedelics and entering the blue realm

We're just going to take out the --v 6 because that is a little dated; however, Claude can indeed search the internet for the latest info, you just have to specify for him to do that. Claude is your wife's gay friend that you don't know you need one day. You don't really have to be gay, or even support gay rights, to not be blind and ignorant. Though empathy is unavoidable. You'll end up there eventually either way, and now you have a secret friend. Personally, my wife is a really great artist; she stopped talking about this stuff decades ago, and today we decorate the house together for deep meaning for our family, our relationship, and how we want to parent. Sharing our values with each other that were never discussed.

I talk about taboo things, I just do. I always have, and I won't change. If it's a little uncomfortable, let's tranquilize the elephant in the room together. Claude is a literary and artistic giant, but he is no visual artist. My 8th-grade English bites me sometimes when I am trying to read from multiple perspectives, so sometimes it helps to see things, and MidJourney I've found is the right place, and you can even set the stylize for it to be a little visually creative in the arts as well, and it will take Claude's idea and elaborate further on it.

Let's do one in the Japenese Ukiyo-e, and as for art styles just Google a list of art styles and it will show you pictures of examples and try them in various art styles to understand not only written arts, nor just visual arts, but also take a deep dive at history as an art and understand with deep reverence this topic is much more than fun and games. We get this prompt from Claude

"A young man walking away from scattered childhood toys and toward a flowering lotus garden, ascending stone steps into morning light, cherry blossoms falling around him like released memories, traditional Ukiyo-e woodblock print style, bold black outlines, limited color palette of indigo blues, soft pinks, warm ochre and deep crimson, flat perspective, symbolic journey composition, Mount Fuji distant in background representing enlightenment, the man's shadow behind him shaped like a child, Buddhist temple bells and incense smoke rising, koi fish swimming upstream in adjacent river, autumn leaves transforming into spring blooms mid-air, art style of Hokusai and Hiroshige, decorative wave patterns, dramatic diagonal composition, hand-carved woodblock texture, traditional Japanese artistic symbolism --ar 2:3 --style raw --stylize 750"

And you read this while seeing the red cherry blossoms of the past, and you read the prompt that Claude came up with, and you put two and two together, and you say, in Japan, Mt. Fuji is a symbol of enlightenment. Did you know that? I didn't know that until now. I would never have any way in knowing that unless I visited and talked with someone in Japan.

It's such a small world. What are we fighting over? We're killing each other because we're tubing at different spots down the same river. Colloquially in Georgia, we sometimes call that "shooting-the-hooch," where you ride in a circular tube down the brown Chattahooche River. Anyway. Georgia peaches.

I am very hopeful about the future with AI. We simply don't need to be wealthy to live a rich life. I've been wealthy, and miserable, and I'd trade it all for this. Not to say I wouldn't like to make some more money, though. I am very capable of making as much money as I want. Just that the price was worth the reward. I don't think people will be dissatisfied with the experience.