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For many years I was an ardent fan of cartoonist Scott Adams. Between 2002 and 2016 I posted more than one hundred times. I read five of his books and count God’s Debris as one of my all time favorites.
In 2016 Adams became a vocal supporter of Donald Trump and —as far as I know— remained one until he died a couple of weeks ago. I asked Gemini if Adams’ support for Trump affected his career. Continue reading
Religious knowledge has become easy to access with as much detail as you might wish. You can learn about Vatican II or the Talmud ad infinitum. But it may mean something different to practitioners when it does not come from another human. An AI can write a sermon; in fact, if some confessional accounts can be believed, a majority of sermons are now at least co-authored with AI. But can it deliver that sermon and move worshippers to go out and do good works? With where things stand now, I doubt it.
As part of my on-going test drive of Google’s Gemini, I uploaded my 77 blog posts tagged Self and 51 posts tagged Universe with the following prompt:
I’d like to discuss “the nature of The Universe” as it relates to the Self. Before we begin, does Gemini “know” the premise of William Gibson’s novel, The Peripheral? No need to explain the premise, just making sure you are familiar with the story.
The resulting conversation (I don’t know what else to call it) is TLDR for most of today’s attention spans but it is an… interaction?… I could only have with an AI. Those of a philosophical bent might find it interesting. (see tags below)
I’ve watched a lot of videos about the Honda Element in the last six weeks but this is the best so far. (16 min)
One of those vehicles that never sold well but developed a cult following. A few descriptions:
Still don’t have mine and don’t know what I’ll wind up paying for it. But I’m hooked.
All pharmaceutical companies seem to come up with bizarre made up names for their drugs. I asked Google’s Gemini to explain why this is so.
Gemini: Drug naming is a collision of three high-stakes worlds: trademark law, regulatory safety, and marketing psychology. The “bizarre” names you see are rarely the result of a creative whim; they are what’s left after a thousand more sensible names have been rejected. Here is why they sound like they were generated by a broken algorithm: