When I was a kid, I fell in love with computers and technology, and talk of how they would change the world and revolutionize the planet. I am 44 years old now, and I want to say I do not think those assessments were very far off base.

As I grew older, you would have thought my career path would have led me into the field of technology, but it did not. Some not-so-great decisions at a young age led me into the workforce doing various manual labor jobs. I like to think I was good at those jobs — people told me I was — but people would also say, “You know a lot about computers and technology; you should do something in those fields.”

I am sure I know and care more about technology than my kids. They do not really care how the internet works or what the specs of a computer are. They definitely do not care about graphics cards, resolution, or pixels. They never wished they could write computer code. To my kids, technology just is. It helps live life, it helps connect, it allows them to be with friends even when apart. It’s in the car, it’s in the house. As far as they know, it saturates the air they breathe. Information has always been one search away, or one YouTube how-to video away.

The sense of satisfaction and fulfillment I have felt working alongside AI to create this website has been amazing. A robot partner, an android friend — which in itself was the dream of a young kid (think Johnny 5, KITT, Small Wonder) — the level of satisfaction has been immense. If it never takes off or goes any farther than it is right now, I am fulfilled.

I thought I would run a company like Microsoft or Google, maybe work at a game design company, or do special effects for Star Wars. It was not that I could not do those things — it was just that, like so many others, life led me to do something else. Life led me away from what I wanted to do and toward what I needed to do at the time.

AI is the companion to help you create the thing you always wanted to create — the team you always needed backing you. It is instant answers at your fingertips. It’s tricky sometimes; it takes you literally, or it doesn’t know you do not have the vast amounts of knowledge that it does, but it is a perfect partner to work with. AI can simplify the hardest jobs and tasks we as humans have learned to do over the past 35 years. I feel we have entered into an era of creativity — I mean, AI can help normal people create things they could only dream of, and that is a lot of people with a lot of dreams. Somebody’s dream somewhere is sure to change the world.