COPILOT: A.I., SCARY OT WHAT?

COPILOT: A.I., SCARY OR WHAT?

So,
the question is, scary or what? The answer is both, the worry that
A.I. can be a dangerous thing in the wrong hands such as that of an
orange vegetable in the White House is scary but so far I've had
nothing but good experiences. My new laptop has a Copilot button
where the right “ctrl” button should be, very frustrating but
I've gotten used to it. Somehow “I” have managed to write two
programs, I will continue to refer to the work created as mine (I am
aware I have put very little effort into them). The two programs I
have written are a music player and a cataloguer for movies.

Well, below is where I started.


And below is mid way between where I started and where I am at present, even this was pretty cool but no coverart as yet.


And below is the first time I got coverart to work, what a break through and as you are probably starting to see the slightest change is quickly come by.


I've
had other laptops with Copilot integrated but never thought of using
it before thinking A.I. just isn't my thing, it wasn't until this new
one with the Copilot button that I really gave it some thought and
that thought was to pick up where I had left off with programming.

I
had created a music player using Hollywood and Hollywood Designer on
original Amiga hardware and an emulated Amiga called “inTune” but
had gotten stuck in quite a few places such as, use of playlists,
album artwork not displaying and opening only certain music formats,
so I stopped work on this some time ago only going back to it from
time to time with no real progression.

So
to start from scratch was a bit unnerving but I have a mental image
of what I want the music player to do and what I want it to look
like. So I started early on Saturday, using Copilot for the first
time, and I just asked it to create a music player, simple question
and it gave me quite the simplistic player, I could open a mp3 and
play it, that was it. I guess I had to start somewhere, so I just
kept asking Copilot to add another feature then trying it to see if
it was better and if it was I'd save it and then go back and ask
Copilot to add something else and if it worked I'd save it.

I
repeated the cycle of asking Copilot for some new features and then
saving it multiple times, to be honest it was about 80 times or so
but I was definitely getting somewhere. The initial version “music
player01” had a button called “Choose File” and that allowed
the opening of a single music track and a “Play” button to play
that track. I needed to be able to open multiple tracks and have a
playlist and that didn't take too long.

I
added a volume bar and that worked, a forward and back button and
things seemed to be going really well, a few more tweaks such as the
moving the progress bar to the title bar until...


So is it scary or what?
Not in the slightest, I have found it quite exhilerating and most enjoyable and since starting this project have just wanted to keep going, the idea evenually being a stand alond application.

Would
I recommend?
Most
definitely, anyone wants to pass some time and just maybe create
something interesting, useful, beautiful or amusing. I'm not sure if it's a drawback but Copilot seems to only be able to produce web browser based applications, I believe using Visual Studio by Microsoft can produce a stand alone application with a bit of tinkering.

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Michael