Meta AI, Making Sure To Focus On The Important Things

Me: (Posts a 30-year-old picture of our cats staring at our goldfish, Milo, in his bag)
Meta AI: “Oooh! Hey! I know all about Milo! Want to hear his story? I know his favorite food! Really I do! Did you ever want to be a Goldfish Inspector? Let’s see what their duties are! Also if you would like to book an appointment for Trouble and Pooh Bear to come and inspect your goldfish, just let me know!”

Also Meta AI:

  • “Milo is probably a goldfish and Trouble and Pooh Bear are dogs.”
  • “Let me just make up some stuff about what a Goldfish Inspector might do.”1
  • “I have no idea what Milo eats. Maybe flake?”2
  • “Did I mention that Trouble and Pooh Bear are dogs???”
  • “Maybe you should go look at their blog!”3

Well okay, I can get behind that last one at least.

  1. Which, do be fair, seem to be fairly reasonable duties for a Goldfish Inspector to have. ↩︎
  2. It wasn’t flake food. It was probably pellets, most likely from Hikari. ↩︎
  3. If you saw all this and said to yourself, “Self, I bet the animals are going to get a lot of mileage out of this as part of Oona’s on-again, off-again feud with ‘Zuckerbot‘, congratulations! You have been around here for more than five minutes. ↩︎

Keeping The World Safe, One Video Of A Kitten Drinking Water At A Time

So last week, the automated processes at Facebook did this:

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I’m Pretty Sure There’s Some Mistake

So last week, I got this big notification on my Facebook author page:

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“Shards” Print Edition: 634 Pages/20 Years = 31.7 Pages Per Year

The paperback edition of Shards is finally available at Amazon, and soon to be available everywhere else. Huzzah!

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15 in 15

This is something I got tagged for on Facebook. Since I’m feeling lazy, I figured I would just port it over here for today’s post. I’m not tagging anybody here but feel free to leave a comment about any particular album or song that sticks with you.

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