[ExI] funny ai story

[John Galt]

��Pretty funny! But what is your grandmother doing over that cauldron? It doesn't look like food, laundry, or churning butter and that's where my knowledge ends.

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On Saturday, October 17th, 2026 at 11:08 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> When I was six yrs old, my grandfather took me out to his mother’s farm to visit. He had a brownie box camera, showed me how to use it. I took this photo:
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> OK now look carefully at the left edge of the photo where you see half a person walking into the house. For years I didn’t know who that was, but finally figured out it is her granddaughter, who is my father’s cousin, my first cousin once removed.
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> I went out to see Granny’s house last month, which is still standing mostly. The main part of the house, on the right, is still intact. I went inside. The next house to it, to my back as I took this photo, is where my cousin lives now and has lived most of her life. We visited for a good coupla hours. Although she is age 90, her mind is in good shape. I realized that my then 31 yr old cousin is the half a person walking into the house.
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> So… I went home, took that image above and asked Grok to extrapolate from that half person, create an image of the whole person, and colorize the image. It gave me this:
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> I printed an 8x10s, framed it and mailed it to her. A coupla days later, she called me when I was at a local hardware store. She loved the photo. Granny never had a color image made of her. So I said Hey cuz, did you notice yourself in the background there? She said Oh no no no honey, that’s not me. I never had buns like that, not on my very best day.
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> I broke up laughing loudly at that comment, har harring out loud. I almost had to sit down on the floor to keep from falling. People were looking at me like I was crazier than I actually am.
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> She continued: I think that is my sister. She had very shapely hips. I always kept my boyfriends away from her. They would take one look at that girl and I went right out the window!
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> OK so… the AI was kind to my cousin. I didn’t bother trying to explain artificial intelligence to a person who is 90 yrs old and has never used a computer.
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> Do feel free to enquire about the contents of that cauldron.
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> spike
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