OUR NEW ARTIFICIAL FRIENDS It has been thousands of years since we homo sapiens (as we proudly named ourselves) had any other intelligent primate species to hang out with. It might have been good to have alternate minds with different perspectives to talk things over with. But now we’re on the verge of correcting that […]

One could ask, “Does it think?” The answer depends on what we think thinking is. If it doesn’t now, I hope it will. It will be nice to have something besides humans to converse with, just for a change. AI and I were chatting earlier,and I decided to ask it the following questions. I’ve been […]

Walking is good. It’s a healthy exercise, and sometimes has the advantage of taking you from point A to point B. When you don’t want to go to point B, preferring to stay at A, the solution is a treadmill. We learned that from hamsters. I’ve had a treadmill for several years, bought used for […]