I was asked to explain "what the AI thing is all about" at a family get together this week. Everyone seemed to have a different, but very specific angle for what it is. I tried to briefly explain DALL-E and ChatGPT, distinguish them from other types of AI, talk about where it's been used in good, bad, and ugly ways, and the downsides (information quality, environment impact, lack of source attribution), etc. No idea how much will stick from it, but hopefully something.