Bing Chat GPT slips?
Ask the Microsoft Bing (Chat GPT powered) how up to date its database is and it seems to slip. A true answer is visually backspaced, to be replaced by PR? Watch it happen here. Bing answers truthfully Bing rolls back to this
Robin Capper
A Kiwi, but not a flightless bird or brown fuzzy skin green centred fruit. Humanist, Skeptic, Cyclist, Car Enthusiast, Westie Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand | he/him
Over a century, and about a week, of memorials...
It's ANZAC day today and my Great Grandfather, Ernest Bock, was one of so many who went to war and didn't come back. On Saturday I attended the celebration of Paul Rodler’s life. A work colleague, friend, who drove to work on Monday 17th April
AutoCAD
End of an era, as Autodesk leaves Shaan Hurley
On Tuesday 30 March 2004, I posted this on TypePad: Getting Started This is the first post to see how it all works. Read other weblogs, thought I'd have a go myself. RobiNZ CAD Blog The reason I chose TypePad, then a new'ish (public launch October
A Fiat 132!
A rare, even when new, survivor
Memories of Antarctica
How you never escape
Frankie
Frankie in the engine bay #DumbCatSmartTag
Bizarre Frankie, the inherited #cat, story. Have collar with name tag & #smarttag as still roams to visit old home about 1km away. He arrived home without collar/tag, is designed to release, not strangle. I tracked to a neighbour's SUV, on their drive, it 'beeped'
March 2023 - 19th Anniversary!
March 31st means it is blog’iversary time. Nineteen years since that first tentative post! I really appreciate the connections blogging, and more recently on Mastodon (since I abandoned Twitter) & Facebook, have enabled. @robincapper on Twitter Won't delete this account but I've made it private
Missing Greg at the Hokitika Wildfoods Festival 2023
I'm not there
Time Out Drive/Cycling Exploring New Zealand 2021 - 2022
Ten months exploring New Zealand
My last Car?*
I just cancelled my print subscription to Car (magazine U.K.). I have been buying it monthly, one way or another, since February 1979. It was probably the Fiat 131 Racing on the cover which first got 13-year-old Robin’s attention, but the contents had me hooked. ** It&
I offended Microsoft Bing's Chat 'artificial intelligence'
I asked the new Bing AI chat about me. "What is the new Bing? The new Bing is like having a research assistant, personal planner, and creative partner at your side whenever you search the web. With this set of AI-powered features, you can: Ask your actual question.
Art
My photo in "The Conversation"
I like 'The Conversation' website and get the NZ edition weekly email newsletter. Read it today and thought a photo, on an article about arts funding, looked a bit like one I took in Auckland Art Gallery. Clicked on the link to find they had picked up my