What hobby have you picked up because of an AI rabbit hole and would never have found otherwise? - opinions

[Isaac80]

You were looking for something, the model suggested something adjacent, and now you have a new interest. Has this happened to anyone and what was the chain?

I was researching quantum key distribution and ended up being directed toward amateur radio as a practical analogy for electromagnetic transmission. I now have my foundation licence

[Golden Tara]

Was researching cryptography history and ended up deep in mechanical cipher machines. Now I own two Enigma replicas and understand more about WWII signals intelligence than most historians

[Connor97]

Asked Claude to explain fermentation chemistry for a bread project. Ended up reading about spontaneous fermentation in Belgian brewing. Now I make lambic style beer in a way that makes proper brewers uncomfortable

[Oscar_86]

Looking into chaos theory for a programming project led to an interest in strange attractors as art. Now I generate and print mathematical visualisations

[MondayMoan51]

Researching transistor history for work ended up at point contact transistors and early Bell Labs experiments. Now I build early era electronics from scratch as a weekend project

[Reacher Quarry]

Asked for an explanation of how photonic quantum computing works and ended up fascinated by holography. The link between interference patterns and information storage sent me somewhere unexpected

[DotEXE]

Was trying to understand graph theory for a database project. The visualisation tools led me to network topology as an art form. I make hand drawn network maps of fictional worlds now

[EdgeRatedR]

Reading about quantum sensors for navigation led me to orienteering as a sport. The navigational skill aspect appealed in a way that running alone did not

[DeepInlet]

My hobby is now prompt rebuffing