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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and more specifically ChatGPT continues to be all the rage. I recently asked the chatbot to show me what it could do.Here is its answer when I asked ChatGPT to explain itself:

This week it is not with great pleasure that my sister and I have spent hours driving hundreds of miles on Houston, Texas freeways where the average speed is 45 miles per hour: that is half the time 15 mph, the other half 75 mph, and rarely anything in between.

Every few days I receive an email forwarded from a good friend.  The appended question is always the same: “What should I do?”

Previously this column pointed out some problems associated with spell-checking software and how even the best programs have trouble with homonyms.

While watching the news one night I heard one of the commentators use a phrase so profound I had to jump up from where I was sitting to quickly find a pen and paper so I could write it down.

The new administration in Washington D.C. is moving to address an issue important to many. Angry and frustrated consumers have flocked to Apple’s App Store to download the “Ice Check” app to get real-time updates on the locations of working McDonald’s ice cream machines.