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And an email, the annual unit inspection, and - as if I didn't already know I'm being confronted with my shoddy housekeeping and the hoarding up of artist materials. I need to find a way to make this all work. 

I pop by the office, try and bribe the building manager with some of the tasty kimchi I made the other day, but she's having none of it...

It's good, it's gotten a bit much this mess that sees me heading to the library rather than deal with all the skeletons I've pulled from the closet and laid out upon the floor, and while I'm rebelling against at what at most amounts to 2 or 3 hours work it will - once accomplished - ease my soul.

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MacBook Air Yosemite, this morning, writing, all artistic on my Apple. I think to go to Chat GPT, I have some questions, and I discover that like tinyMCE it won't load. I get "Site security" issues, apparently Chat GPT is feeling insecure. And upon ignoring those, proceeding with caution, at my own risk, am confronted with a blank screen.

This, of course, is BS, and I'm getting rapidly annoyed with what is proving to be the fastest brick in the world. 

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This, left behind by my daughter as being too old and outdated, and so I powered it up and gave it a try. And - a bit to learn, the keyboard, Arabic and English, naturally, but - 120 GB HD and more than fast enough, apps the likes of which I didn't dare imagine on that old PC. I mean - there's a learning curve, for sure, and I'm pretty much against learning tech, it's no longer useful in my life, but - bloody hell, how did I deal with that fucking brick of a laptop for so long? Perpetually telling me I need to upgrade my OS (Windows 10), my antivirus, everything - yet, when I move all my files off of it - 50 MB, max, not even - and still it can't do a bloody thing, when every opening screen was recommending I finance a new laptop via "Windows Financing" - I mean, this is as far ahead of my old computer as my my old computer was an abacus. A 32 GB HD, of which 38 GB was consumed by an OS on which the only thing I could use was notepad, wordpad (crashed), and the internet, one tab at a time... And on this now, the super HD screen, super definition, all the fancy bells & whistles, I suffered for far too long for no good reason. SO now, time spent learning how to use it, not an Apple fan but most definitely a fan of a working PC... Now to wipe that brick of a laptop and donate it to Share, that's one bad memory I'll be glad to leave behind!!!

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And more statistical analysis, feeding my numbers this time into Vertex, Gemini - Google's own AI. 

And, again, it's not doing the heavy lifting, rather instead giving me long-winded explanations as to how I can calculate these things for myself. Totally not the point. Asking the computer to do it for me is why I'm asking the computer to do it for me.

Although I was impressed, it guessed that I was feeding it lottery numbers.

I'm beginning to smell a cover-up by big-lotto.

While I doubt the "intelligence" in AI is going to be upon us as soon as they say, I'm rather dismally impressed at their ability to chat with natural language, make excuses as to how tough what I'm asking is, deny, stonewall circumnavigate and  ignore my questions. We've developed computing programs and AI models that spend all their computing power arguing that I should be doing all the work. Our AI overlords are proving disheartening like our own leaders.

"In our own image", unfortunately does not imply intelligence.