AI is quite the buzz word now. I’ve followed the story about the data centers being built all over the place and their insatiable need for electrical power. I’ve seen some of the AI creations, both in news stories and in what people post on FaceBook. While remarkable, I never felt that the result justified the means.

But today I found a use for AI that I hadn’t thought of before. I have noticed in the past few months that Google searches have been returning AI summaries rather than just a list of links as had been the past practice.

At Mom’s yesterday, we looked through the things in a closet in one of the spare bedrooms. There was some interesting old stuff stored in there. I hope to make it a subject of another post.

One of the things we found was not so old. It was a . . .  I don’t know what to call it. It’s a very nice table top display of a flag that was flown over LSU after Zach’s death. I don’t remember how it got to Mom’s. I probably took it down there to see if anyone was interested in taking it. Since no one in the family has space for displaying such things, it went unclaimed.

Now it has resurfaced and I’m pretty sure no one will want it. I left it there to ask people about it on Christmas. We’ll see.

The whole thing got me to thinking about Zach’s legacy at LSU. Besides the flag, I had gotten notification of a logo that was put on the URec Center basketball court about a year after his death. I wrote a short post about it here.

This morning I got curious about whether the logo was still there and what condition it was in. I did some Internet searching and found the web site for LSU URec but could find nothing about Zach. Looking again at the search results, I noticed that there was an Instagram link with a reference to a ‘zwood’’ court at the URec. So I tried searching using that phrase in a real question and followed up with a ‘deeper dive’ into the AI search.

What came back astounded me. Here’s a screenshot of the results:

Here’s a link to the page. I was able to scroll down and followed other related questions that the AI had come up with. The questions were germane and the answers were useful. Remarkable!

Is this worth building data centers all over the place that have insane power requirements? I’d still say no. Zach’s old boss at URec is still there. I may write to her and get an update. No AI can do that.