old man emu

How does one pronounce the word "wind"?

The USA is no longer an democracy. It is an idiotcracy.

Beautiful British humour!

No. Didn't you hear that Donny renamed the country?

Is that like throwing a noose over a rafter in preparation for hanging yourself?

But who carries small change nowadays?

I found this interesting.

I wonder what happens if you type in a question to ChatGPT in a language other than English. Does it reply in that language, or in English?

If we members here want to get an understanding of AI, I suggest they read this Wikipedia entry describing the history of AI. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intelligence to acquant themselves with the road AI has travelled from a confluence of ideas that became prevalent in the late 1930s, 1940s, and early 1950s. In 1950, Turing published a landmark paper, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", in which he speculated about the possibility of creating machines that think.[53][b] In the paper, he noted that "thinking" is difficult to define and devised his famous Turing test: If a machine could carry on a conversation (over a teleprinter) that was indistinguishable from a conversation with a human being, then it was reasonable to say that the machine was "thinking"

What about this? We are living in the second quarter of the 21st Century.

Tough call! A certain number keeps coming into my mind - 1984.

Furniture from the 50s is called Mid-Century Modern. Speaking of words we use without really knowing what the thing is the word describes, would you know what an algorithm was if you tripped over it?

Histroy has given us Alexander the Great, Alfred the Great, Vlad the Impaler and Ivan the Terrible. Now we have Donald the Destroyer.

I stood upwind. The incineerator was in a rural area. I stoned the crows.

I did identify the plant just after nomad posted the picture, but I clicked the wrong button and left the thread and could not remember which one it was. I remember clearing out a house which was being used to grow these plants hydroponically. I think the count wa around 300 plants. They were beautiful specimens of the species. If it was legal to grow them, they would have walked away with First Prize at any horticultural comptition. Too bad I had to take them to an industrial incinerator and burn them.