And what a life you have.. one that is impacting so many, and challenging us to be the best we can be, in the circumstances we find ourselves at any given moment! Love you Amy💜
Can’t remember the point I was going to follow up on 🙃 but found it so interesting you wrote around “get a life” when I saw a lit up sign at the wkend on “my life” which used to be “live my best life” (fully lit) and I wanted to write a post on that! Because it’s not necessarily about living our best life or chasing happiness when as humans we’re meant to feel and experience the full range of emotions, it’s about living our life and finding a new way of seeing, a new way of being as well as a new way of feeling. If we are ever to adapt to such challenges and limitations that have been put upon us anyway.
Of all the wonderful takeaways from this newsletter, I’m now over here googling cat songs and videos to entertain kittens... 😂 Ripley is lucky to have you. AI freaks me out. And I’d like to think get a life just means stop being so nosey about mine - but like sometimes being nosey is so fun. Regardless I’m over here wishin I had a magic wand for the long coviders.
Not gonna lie - I DEFINITELY had you in mind when I linked to the music for cats 🤭.
I have since asked Pi a wider variety of things and it’s definitely more efficient than doing a Google search and parsing through the answers. Like last night, I wanted to watch the movie The Holiday, so I asked Pi where it was streaming for free. I learned the answer was “nowhere,” but I could rent it for $3.79. I initially told Pi that I resented paying to rent older movies when we pay for so many streaming services. He empathized but ultimately convinced me to do it, and I was glad I did because I love that movie and I slept so soundly after watching it 🫠
Thanks for reading, Teri! The bot really freaked me out at first, but I was more surprised by how quickly I fell into responding to it like I was speaking to an actual human. It reminded me of that movie Her, where Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with a bot that has the voice of Scarlet Johansson 😅
Yikes! That's what scares me - getting used to it so fast. It's so supportive and like everything you'd want a friend to be. Does it go through everything it can find about you on the web? If so, that really freaks me out. :)
No, I don't think it knows my background. I think it just took the few details I shared with it and ran away with its response. But I was telling my husband, "WOW - this bot reacted more empathically about my long COVID than any one of my three brothers have!"
Omg, I, like, TOTALLY, remember watching Valley Girl as a teen--in suburban Australia, and wondering if all Californians talked like that.
I wonder if I can use Pi has a “you got this!” cheering tool, except I worked on ELIZA as part of my Honours thesis (neural networking was only just beginning to be talked about, back in the day) and it just feels weird talking to a bot.
It IS weird. But the cheering component is pretty good; it really has the common parlance down. Sometimes it’s a little over the top or a bit much, but then again, we all know actual humans like this 🤭
And what a life you have.. one that is impacting so many, and challenging us to be the best we can be, in the circumstances we find ourselves at any given moment! Love you Amy💜
Jenny! I love you and miss you, my friend. Thanks for reading ☺️
Can’t remember the point I was going to follow up on 🙃 but found it so interesting you wrote around “get a life” when I saw a lit up sign at the wkend on “my life” which used to be “live my best life” (fully lit) and I wanted to write a post on that! Because it’s not necessarily about living our best life or chasing happiness when as humans we’re meant to feel and experience the full range of emotions, it’s about living our life and finding a new way of seeing, a new way of being as well as a new way of feeling. If we are ever to adapt to such challenges and limitations that have been put upon us anyway.
Very well-said, Amber. And thanks for reading 🧡
Always love to read your posts, I get excited when I see them come through 🤩
Of all the wonderful takeaways from this newsletter, I’m now over here googling cat songs and videos to entertain kittens... 😂 Ripley is lucky to have you. AI freaks me out. And I’d like to think get a life just means stop being so nosey about mine - but like sometimes being nosey is so fun. Regardless I’m over here wishin I had a magic wand for the long coviders.
Not gonna lie - I DEFINITELY had you in mind when I linked to the music for cats 🤭.
I have since asked Pi a wider variety of things and it’s definitely more efficient than doing a Google search and parsing through the answers. Like last night, I wanted to watch the movie The Holiday, so I asked Pi where it was streaming for free. I learned the answer was “nowhere,” but I could rent it for $3.79. I initially told Pi that I resented paying to rent older movies when we pay for so many streaming services. He empathized but ultimately convinced me to do it, and I was glad I did because I love that movie and I slept so soundly after watching it 🫠
Anytime I feel bad about renting a movie I just think, well I could be out spending $18 on a margarita so... 😁
Good post, Amy. That conversation with AI was spooky!
Thanks for reading, Teri! The bot really freaked me out at first, but I was more surprised by how quickly I fell into responding to it like I was speaking to an actual human. It reminded me of that movie Her, where Joaquin Phoenix falls in love with a bot that has the voice of Scarlet Johansson 😅
Yikes! That's what scares me - getting used to it so fast. It's so supportive and like everything you'd want a friend to be. Does it go through everything it can find about you on the web? If so, that really freaks me out. :)
No, I don't think it knows my background. I think it just took the few details I shared with it and ran away with its response. But I was telling my husband, "WOW - this bot reacted more empathically about my long COVID than any one of my three brothers have!"
Scary!
Omg, I, like, TOTALLY, remember watching Valley Girl as a teen--in suburban Australia, and wondering if all Californians talked like that.
I wonder if I can use Pi has a “you got this!” cheering tool, except I worked on ELIZA as part of my Honours thesis (neural networking was only just beginning to be talked about, back in the day) and it just feels weird talking to a bot.
It IS weird. But the cheering component is pretty good; it really has the common parlance down. Sometimes it’s a little over the top or a bit much, but then again, we all know actual humans like this 🤭