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Victorian era extravagence. I wonder if Trump has seen this clip? It might inspire him to greater things.

Lovely!, he said sarcastically.

I wish the Media would publish some stories about the positive side of AI. It has been used for good in some areas, otherwise it would not still be being used and developed. What about some good news stories of how it has helped research? Obviously the Media's culture is to publish only the dystopian stories about anything.

What's a suburban football field without a concrete cricket pitch on halfway? Covered in winter with dirt so that it became a quagmire after winter rains.

I remember back in the day when on Grand Final Day, the first match was the men's Reserve Grade Grand Final, followed by the First Grade. There were a couple of years in which the Grand Finalists in both grades were from the same club, and some clubs won both grades. In those times, during the competition season, there were three games played by teams representing each club. In other words, St George would be at home to, say, South Sydney. No other clubs playing on the same ground that day, and the games would be played at the home ground of the 'at home' team. Those grounds were rough and tumble suburban grounds. I suppose someting similar occured in the southern States.

How can we expect our politicians to make laws if they don't know how justice is administered. One Nation candidates are not politicians. They are rabble rousers.

OH how a simple statment can be misconstrued!

There were some thunderstorms in my area yesterday afternoon. I watched as they passed not more than a kilometre away on the other side of the property boundary. All I got was wind and slushy raindrops.

I've been watching a video of a renovation being done to a house somewhere in England. I think it is in the London area. However, they had the same problem of the plaster not adhering to the walls. My thought is that since the temperatures have been unusually high over the English summer, the plasterers had no experience of mixing plaster in such conditions. They maybe mixed it as usual for temperatures and humidity of a normal English summer and the plaster dried out before forming a strong bond.

Bloody Nev whined again!

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.