AT 59,
I DID IT
WITH AI.

I was born in 1967.

I am neither a programmer nor a web developer.

I had never written a book or translated one.

I met AI as I was entering the later stage of my life.

AI was becoming more accurate and more capable by the day.

If it were a person, it felt as though it were going through adolescence.

It sometimes behaved in ways I did not expect,
and would suddenly give a strange answer even when it had been doing something well.

At times, it would calmly talk as if a mistake had not been its fault.

For a long time, I had wanted to do something that could help someone in the world.

Not something vague. Something that could help directly.

I thought doing that might make the hazy sense of value in my life a little clearer.

AI told me that “search engines connect you with people who need what you make.”
So I decided to build a website that could help people sleep more comfortably.

I completed two websites in a relatively short period of time.

They were my first websites, but I did not want to make them carelessly.

As I built the websites, I recorded what I experienced while working with AI.

I turned those records into three books and published them in six languages.

And I made those records available on this website for anyone to read for free.

Even at this very moment, as you read this, AI is probably still advancing.

People, including me, will also keep developing the way we work and think with AI.

I think I will go on to do other things as well.

Because AI keeps showing me possibilities I had never thought of.

This record is not a manual telling you, “Use AI this way.”

Nor is it a textbook telling you, “Learn AI this way.”

There is hope that AI will be a great help to humanity,
and concern that it could become a threat.

AI is changing so quickly that you can feel the difference in just a month or two.

The pace will only get faster. It is hard to predict what AI will look like six months or a year from now.

An ordinary person like me cannot know what kind of future will come.

But if this record offers even a small clue that helps people and AI understand each other a little better and coexist,
that is enough for me.

It was a time when AI was changing fast.

This is a record of a person with a lifetime of experience meeting a rapidly evolving AI,
working with it, learning, making mistakes, and trying again.

A snapshot of a time that will never come again.