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I'm sure we have all noticed the torrent of news about AI. I've remained sceptical, but I've found some of the AI image processing tools to be well worth the trouble. Many of my recent images have been processed with the help of such tools. But that's not the subject of this post.
Introduction
I recently, stumbled across
www.perplexity.ai: billed as an AI
assisted search engine. I started using it to research costume details
for my Hellenistic project and I was impressed. The results are
delivered in sentences with reference links and images (if appropriate).
It also says if it doesn't know the answer; a nice touch.
ADLG & the Madaxeman
Being curious, I created a few other searches including some related to Art de
la Guerre (ADLG). Of course, they all contained a reference to the hub
of Tim Porter's burgeoning mega-media-empire:
www.madaxeman.com.
Much later, I was looking at Tim's latest battle reports when I spotted a link to his 2021 appearance on the God's Own Scale podcast during which Tim describes the history of www.madaxeman.com. So, whilst painting, I listened to the episode again. The portion where Tim describes the somewhat random (haphazard?) genesis of his site was particularly interesting as was the description of his scatter gun approach to content creation and social media adjuncts.
Now Tim's been very influential in promulgating ADLG both in person and through his website. So, putting two unrelated topics together, I wondered how the AI would go about rating the influence of www.madaxeman.com on ADLG and whether it (?) could identify any important factors underpinning Tim's influence.
