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For the last three weeks I’ve backed off French more than the preceding seven years. Where I usually get at least two hours in I squeaked in perhaps and average of 20 minutes. That’s how preoccupied I’ve been with the idea of giving up on running for Congress. So my column was going to explain all this. and there were two things which needed an explanation. First my announcing that I would run as a Democrat. Second, My second thoughts about mounting that campaign. And because there are three explanations…….Third why I thought running as a protest Republican candidate made more sense given my questionable drive to work 18 hours a day for six months.

But after turning my attention elsewhere Friday afternoon my 825 word rough draft wasn’t satisfactory.

So, today I resumed my French and I knuckled down and wrote 3500 words for a possible book. I’m still very keen on focusing on our treasonous Congressman Pete Stauber so that’s why another protest campaign appeals to me.

I also spent some time talking to AI which I’ve been doing a lot of lately in both English and French. (although not so much of in French for the past three weeks)

You can see the title above and a screen shot of a question I asked one of my four AI aps.

I spent a lot of time probing Chat GPT about AI here and in totalitarian states. I do not for a moment consider any of the Chats as being human but their reasoning is spectacular and for a human instantaneous.

I am of the opinion that we should train kids to understand it and make use of it. I’m learning a lot about its powers and I know I’m barely putting it to the test. Among the things I’ve discovered that different search engines can do. They can scan twenty years of my blog’s pages. I had one AI ChatGPT I think scan a website I’ve maintained but not added to for fifteen years. www.letduluthvote.com. Without my asking it mentioned it contained 750,000 words in an analysis I asked it for the contents. That would have taken me a couple days.

I’ve kept asking AI’s about hallucinations and I’m satisfied that AI’s and their programmers are figuring out how to tone that down. When I tell Chats how I want them to treat me they do unless they aren’t designed to remember continuing conversations.

l see its midnight. I didn’t sleep well last night. I need to make some lost sleep up. Nighty Night.

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Harry is a ferociously good natured eccentric in Duluth Minnesota who detests traitors dressed up as Uncle Sam. You can find somewhat better edited writings of his at the Duluth Reader "contributors." page. The URL is:

https://duluthreader.com/contributors/h/84/284-harry-welty