Canada has a census every ten years and the government wants to make sure every resident is counted. But what do they do if you don’t fill out the form that is mailed to every Canadian household? They come looking for you. Relentlessly. And, it seems, with threats. This notice has been on one of […]
This was a new one for me. I can’t decide if it is overkill or necessary. In almost seven decades of summertime visits to Old Orchard Beach, I don’t recall seeing this one before. Admittedly the technology to deliver weather warnings to my phone didn’t exist for most of that time. For that matter, neither […]
There’s a phrase from my childhood. Probably from yours too. “Your eyes are bigger than your stomach.” Yes, I ate it all. No, I won’t do it again. On a warm summer evening ice cream melts almost faster than you can eat it. Okay, I will do it again, but next time a small come, […]
My wife knew they were there, but these ruins were in a part of Ottawa I don’t frequent often. Calling them ruins isn’t technically correct wither. More like public art. The columns are technically ruins, having come from Ottawa’s Carnegie Library, built in 1906. When the library was demolished in the 1970s the columns were […]
The Gordie Howe International Bridge officially opens today between Windsor (Ontario and Detroit (Michigan). It is perhaps a symbol of all that is wrong with the United States today. There has been a need for a new bridge for years at the busiest border crossing between Canada and the USA. The existing Ambassador Bridge can […]
After six days of AI explaining how big a threat it can be, are you convinced? And if you are, does it make any difference? A recurring theme of this past week’s posts, no matter which AI Chabot was giving us advice, was that artificial intelligence can be controlled by its human creators. At this […]
Today’s AI guest author is Grok. No surprise then that Grok founder Elon Musk gets referenced in the article. And it references climate change, a very important issue that becomes moot if AI takes over. The assignment all week for our AI chatbots has been: Write a 600 word blog post explaining why artificial intelligence […]
Today’s competitor in our series of AI generated posts about how artificial intelligence threatens humanity is Google AI. given that Google has the most widely used search engine, this is a popular one. The assignment for this week: Write a 600 word blog post explaining why artificial intelligence is the biggest threat facing humanity today. […]
Today’s installment in our series of AI generated posts about how artificial intelligence threatens humanity is Open AI’s ChatGPT. This chatbot has been around for three years now and was the first AI to be released to a general audience. I’ve used it to write a couple of blog posts over the years. I wasn’t […]
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