I don’t know about you but over the years, I’ve noticed a huge drop in customer service standards across the board. From banks, pharmacies, retail, hospitality, bad service is rife. Sometimes it’s not bad per se, it’s just “inconvenient”. Through its “misguided convenience” it becomes bad because it treats the customer as an idiot. We’re […]
AI & The Future of Humanity
This video is worrying. Harari talks about how AI can be a danger for humanity. To be honest, I’m fearful of the future. I’m not a fan of AI but I know that’ll it be part of our lives (and is) already. In the early 20th century when atomic energy was discovered, the Allied powers […]
Scull A Drink Every Time AI is Mentioned…
You’ll end up pissed pretty quickly (which is the preferred state to be if you have to listen to everything being taken over by this topic. Everything. “Pretty sure Google is focusing on AI at this year’s I/O. #google #googleio #ai #tech #technews #techtok”. Google I/O and AI original sound – The Verge. — Read […]
Book Review of Creative Differences & Other Stories by Graeme Simsion
Here’s my new book review of this book of short stories. I really enjoyed this one!
BuzzFeed Says Its AI Is Outperforming Its Pesky Human Employees
Maybe this article is a good reminder not to read articles from such sites. Oh, wait a moment. I don’t read them. 🤣 Still, it makes me wonder what other news sites are using AI (or soon will be using it). I think it’s high time for me to curate my feeds once more and […]
The Decline of Eye Contact
Yesterday I went for a walk with a good friend who has been in my life for many years. She put a proposal in front of me regarding a potential opportunity to return to my first ever employer. The industry is going through a massive build up here in Australia and there’s plenty of opportunities […]
“Why Do I Have to Look Shit Up For This Machine?”
An excellent post by Alan Devine showing his frustration with ChatGPT. The quote however hits the mark. Lying, Hallucinating? I, MuddGPT – CogDogBlog — Read on cogdogblog.com/2023/05/i-muddgpt/ Another good conversation to follow in Mastodon (HT Stephen Downes) in response to the recent Guardian article by Naomi Klein called AI Machines Aren’t Hallucinating, Their Makers Are […]
Feels Like Covid Lockdown Days Again
I’m not going to lie, the weather lately has been crap. Endless rain, dark grey skies, dampness everywhere and freezing cold. We are stuck indoors although I venture out every morning for a few hours to head over to my parents house to do their cooking and shopping. Today, I vacuumed and mopped their floors; […]
Follow Me, Coco Chanel
The new Coco Chanel ad comes on the television. I listen to the opening notes of a mesmerising song. What is she singing about? The machines? The social media influencers?” I immediately stop knitting. I pick up the phone and type in “Coco Chanel Ad Soundtrack” It comes back with this. I’m getting outI’m moving […]
New Second Hand Book Haul
Needed a convenient excuse to get out of the house so I just said I was going to the supermarket. I HÂTE going to the supermarket. I went to my local second hand book store. A little tiny shop filled with stacks of dusty books that are precariously placed on top of each other creating […]
All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan
I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky. I like to think (right now, please!) of a cybernetic forest filled with pines and electronics where deer stroll peacefully past computers as if they were […]
How To Read Fiction: A Video Book Review
The latest book review is up on my YouTube channel, Life Lessons From Books. It’s by James Wood on How Fiction Works. I have some books “dropping” (as they say) over the next four weeks. (I read about 1-2 books per week) What to expect in the coming weeks:
Life As A Met Gala Parade or….The Hunger Games 🤣
I’m always amused when life imitates art. A couple of days ago, I watched the bizarre parade of those invited to the Met Gala. Usually this event showcases the most creative outfit sensations for those who can afford the $50,000 ticket price. Last night, I had another weird dream that I was living in a […]
All Writing is Human
I’ve decided to add another icon on my Home page of this site and along the right banner of each page that shows that all writing on this site is created by me – and not by a bot like ChatGPT or the myriad of others that we will soon be seeing. When I created […]
It Would Feel Like The World Is Gaslighting You
That’s the comment by the two researchers from the YouTube video below if you’re the one questioning AI. This video is mind boggling about the power of Gollem AIs and how companies like Microsoft are now embedding these into their products – and all in an unsafe and unchecked manner by these few tech companies. […]
Looking After Parents
While elbow deep in suds washing dishes at the kitchen sink of my parents home, I let my mind wander. I’m at an age where I’m now looking after my parents more. We like to think that they’ll be strong, resilient and independent for a long time but after a while, you see little things […]
A Worrying Future
It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of AI. Well, to be clear – it’s not the technology per se – it’s the lack of trust in the tech bros and people who will rush to use AI in everything for ultimate power, control or profit. So far, it seems much of the discussion […]
A New About Me Page
Today I did a few things to update my old “brand” (is that the dreaded word we use now?). Now that I’m not working and unlikely to ever go back into the corporate world doing what I did before, I realise that I have no formal “occupation” as such. I have described myself as “semi […]
Window Shopping
I recently read in Pamela Paul’s book, 100 Things We Lost to The Internet, that window shopping was going by the way of the dodos. Yesterday to get out of the house a bit, as I was getting a bit stir crazy (hubby can sit in front of the television from morning until midnight but […]
Work On Our Front Yard
Landscaping out front yard has commenced! Before Covid, we made the decision to completely relandscape our back and front garden and to do some big maintenance jobs around the house foregoing any leave or holidays here or abroad at least until 2026. Roof repairs, tree and root removals, major site drainage (to offset the huge […]