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Thoughts on Gullibility and Artificial Intelligence
I watched an episode of Mysteries at the Museum the other night and attributed a clever prank that fooled thousands of people to a comedian named Buck Henry who persuaded thousands of people into believing that naked animals were destroying the morality of Americans. The show’s host rightly claimed that Buck Henry posed as a…
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Sena Wants AI Dislodged
Well, the last couple of days have been entertaining with the Artificial Intelligence (AI) bots, at least for a while, to me. However, my wife, Sena wants AI dislodged. I thought I disabled it, but it just keeps popping up. Maybe the only way to protect ourselves from AI is with tin foil hats. On…
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Update to Chat with Bard
My recent chat with Google Bard, about which I posted on April 11, 2023, contained an error by Bard on all those strikes by physicians. Today I asked some follow-up questions: How many physician strikes have occurred in the United States? “There have been a few physician strikes in the United States, but they are…
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Thoughts on Artificial Intelligence
Sena and I just read Dr. Ron Pies fascinating essay describing his interaction with Google Bard Artificial Intelligence (AI). As usual, this made me think of several movies with AI as a central theme. There are several: I, Robot (I wrote a post about this a couple of years ago), Blade Runner, The Matrix, 2001:…
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My Cribbage Losing Streak and My Review of the Cribbage Classic Computer Game
Sena and I played cribbage yesterday and, of course she won. She has been on a spectacular winning streak. She got a hand score of 21. I don’t know what I’m going to have to do to come up with a win. Cheat? I could keep extra cards up my sleeves and elsewhere, but I…
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The Secret of Patience
The secret of patience is to do something else in the meantime. Croft M. Pentz A few days ago, Sena noticed a noise in one of the sunroom window shade wand controls. She can hear noises I can’t hear, which is a good thing. She wondered if the wand battery needed recharging. We have 3…
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Noisy Alien in Computer Removed
Well, this afternoon the computer repair guy returned and fixed the computer in about 15 minutes. The noise was gone after he replaced the power supply unit, the fan of which was the source of the mini-helicopter noise. Obviously, this was a case of extraterrestrial invasion. Seriously, though, once we got past all of the…
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Computer Crisis Progress Report
The title of this post is supposedly about progress toward fixing my Dell computer, the one with a mini-helicopter noise in the tower. The Tech drove to my house yesterday from Ouad Cities. He had the parts the Agents ordered for fixing the noise in my PC tower. The parts were wrong. He drove an…
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Update on Computer Crisis
This is an update to my post yesterday about the latest computer crisis; the one about the mini-helicopter noise in the tower on my relatively new Dell XPS 8950. Incredibly, the parts have been ordered. I can’t tell if they just ordered them today or what. The technicians will arrive sometime tomorrow and they’ll bring…
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Another Computer Crisis
Another day, another computer crisis. I’ve been hearing this mini-helicopter noise from my PC tower for a while and finally contacted the manufacturer’s computer support center on the web. I have hopped through many hoops in the past couple of days, including resetting my computer. Remember I had to do that with Sena’s computer? How…
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