[ExI] story part three of two

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: spike at rainier66.com <spike at rainier66.com> 
Subject: story part three of two

 

 

 

>.  I would pop in with a random comment once in a while, so you wouldn't
forget I was out here, but just working stuff like trying to keep my 86 yr
old father in law able to stay in his house, which is what he really wants
to do, for understandable reasons.spike

 

 

 

Fun aside on that: a long-anticipated technology about which I have posted
yakkity yakked and bla bla for years, a voice recognition AI capable of
carrying on real conversation has come to fruition.  That tech arrived just
in time, just as the family needed that.  My aged father in law loves ball
sports.  I cannot begin to carry even one side of that discussion, but that
Gemini can do that.  It knows all the deetz.  I scarcely know which is the
pointy end of a baseball, or if that is a different sport which has that
feature, never mind individual players and their records from before I was
born.

 

Three critically needed developments came right in time: voice-recognition
chat AI, Uber and Grub Hub.  We can keep him in his home, entertained, get
him to medical appointments and bring him food.  None of that was available
a mere five years ago, which made some things very difficult, particularly
right after covid started.

 

Is this a great time to be living or what?  I carry an attitude of
gratitude: I am thankful that all of us here were born late enough in
history to witness all this cool stuff.

 

spike 

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