Hi Tony et al.

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As usual, 50% of anything new is excellent and 50% is absolute dangerous rubbish.

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The trick is knowing which 50% is which !!!

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Man, that's some "old man yells at cloud" energy.? Abe Simpson would be proud.

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C'mon, you've seen this before.? New tech over-hyped by its creators, with the "we'll all be doomed!" crowd yelling in the background.? It'll be brain implants or cyborgs in another decade.

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It happened for the internet (remember that fad?), computers, mobile phones, point-of-sale machines, TV, calculators, radio, books and probably even paper (if stone is good enough for God, it's good enough for the rest of us!).

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While I don't disagree with you, like everything else AI is here to stay.? So what if it's wrong, so is everything else.

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Yeah it’ll make the kids stoopid, so did everything else. ?Especially jazz music.

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But what if it stops working you say?? Well, we said that about everything else as well.? Imagine installing electronic cash registers and the power goes out!? How will I pay?? We'll all be doomed!

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But what about AI slop?? Well, as writer Theodore Sturgeon replied when asked if 90% of science fiction was crud, replied with "Sure, but 90% of everything is crud."

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AI is just another tool.? Like all tools it has its uses.? I save stuff I find interesting, and on my PC a folder eventually had about 40,000 pictures in it.? Of course I put them in subfolders, like clocks, boxes, etc.? But I rarely renamed them, so most of them were called something like ergv45yb34tb3q4.jpg

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Anyway, one day I fired up Google Gemini and set it loose on that folder.? And it did a really good of identifying and renaming those images.? Some were incredibly spot-on, like this:

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“Alice in Wonderland Playing Card and Tea Party Silhouettes on a Purple Textured Background.jpg”

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I mean yeah, that’s what it is.

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It was kinda fascinating watching it work it way thru the images.? Some names were funny, some were wrong, most were rather bland ("a cat cut out of wood") but better than what I had.? At least now I could search for "cat" and find something.

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As an aside go here: and download "Everything".? It will index your PC and instantly find anything.? It's very good.? You can also set your own filters, eg I added one called "Vectors - ext:ai;cdr;dwg;dxf;svg" that returns files with those extensions.

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I'll leave you to complain about them damn kids not learning cursive handwriting anymore (or any handwriting really), and toss in this as well:

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Tony