Today’s modern smart home appliances are capable of doing things we could never have imagined only a few decades ago.

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.