* Yes, this has been a remarkably cold stretch for Brisbane - fortunately, from last night, I thought the cold was starting to get less intense. We just rely on turning split system air con to "warm" if it's cold, and most winters we really don't use them often. But the last - what? 4 days? - the living room one has been on most of the day.
* Saw Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. I rank it a solid "OK". I don't know why, but I find the world of Dr Strange charmingly silly. (I liked the way, for example, the guests at a wedding just stand on a high rise balcony watching while said doctor goes to deal with a giant, one eyed octo-monster from another dimension destroying a city street only a block or two from them, and don't run away in mad panic.) Certainly, in this movie, the reminders Strange gives me of the covers to the Lobsang Rampa books, which I would see in bookshops as a child (but never read) became even clearer. I guess without Marvel movies, there would be battalions of special effects artists out of work, and who knows what trouble they could get up to if not meaningfully occupied?
* Oh, it might be something like this:
Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient
Yeah, yeah: this story is wildly popular. But so it should be, seeing it's like reading a science fiction story come to life: a company has to seriously explain to one of its engineers why he is mistaken about his having helped create a sentient AI . Mind you, I, and probably many others, had already begun to suspect broader sentience from Google just from Youtube recommendations. (I don't really believe this, but I would like to be able to.)
It's reminding me a little of David Brin's Earth. (Well, the bit about an AI being created - how it came to inhabit the Earth was a bit silly.)
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