Nutty and A.I

 
Photo: this delightful red squirrel, Nutty, is back. What’s more he seems to be semi tame because when I rattle the peanuts he runs to greet me instead of running away.

Tough afternoon our Fit4Life class. Our trainer has decided to raise the bar.  Normally I  coast through without breaking sweat. Not so today. It was all about weight lifting and upper body strength. ( Would love to blip all this but it would be frowned upon).
 
Just when you thought the world could not get any weirder here are two of the latest AI stories:
(1)    Robot commits suicide in South Korea through overwork.
 Well, I checked it out and it's clear it’s a mechanical malfunction, something the manufactures always claimed, but that did not stop the video going viral on social media.

(2)    AI Jesus takes confession. 
Now this is different. Installed in a Swiss church in the town of Lucerne as a university research project, subsequently withdrawn because they could not guarantee AI Jesus would stick to the script and not  go rogue.
But not before the experiment showed many peope did gain comfort from confessing to AI Jesus.

My guess is that we are going to see a lot more taking confession in the years ahead which, given the bad press the church has had in recent years relating to abuse, may be a good thing.