I’m questioning Google’s decision to provide AI text answers through their chat bot, Bard, in a revamp of their search engine results. I’ll tell you why. If I am right, I think Google is being unfair and they may damage the Internet. Current status When you use Google today, you ask Google to find …
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) chat bot interface online. It is basically and instant message (IM) conversation with a computer run by AI. You can ask the computer all kinds of questions and it will provide you with its best answer immediately. The answers are compact, concise and well written in English. I …
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Amazon Smile raised $500 million for charities elected by customers over its lifetime of 10 years. A small percentage of the sale price was given to charity by Amazon. It did not increase the sale price of the goods purchased. Amazon say that the charity was spread too thinly, “[the] program has not grown …
Here are 22 different smiling cat with heart-eyes emojis. The heart-eyes emoji expresses extreme love of something said or seen. I guess it is the emoji of choice for a cat lover who wants to say they really like something that they have seen on the internet or in a communication. They are in …
Introduction The article discusses more than the definition of copyright. A definition is a summary and more than that is appropriate in this instance. This article relates primarily to internet works; words and images. Over the course of the development of the Internet, the concept of copyright with respect to images has changed in …
This is a strange world. Even the words are strange. A parallel universe inhabited by people no older than 20 on planet Zog. Perhaps 25. Everyone on the planet never grows old. They spend their time creating Twitter ascii images and memes and take great delight in the task. It is the world of …
The question I’m most often asked about my writing for PoC is ‘how do you handle writing about cruelty?’ My answer to that is two-fold. One is I try to speed through topics that need covering then get away from them as quickly as possible. I also find a lot of uplifting news as …
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