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called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Ah, technology on point. Everything's working today. Well, let's give a little thanks for our experts, shall we? You know, experts get a bad rap, especially lately, but what would we do without them? Here's a case in point. Finally, after long last, long Covid has a definition now. That's what we needed because long Covid, everybody was all over th…

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one of 200 symptoms that may come and go during the rest of your life.

So finally we have a little clarity. It's something that happened after you had Covid, any time in your life, and could include any one of 200 symptoms that may come and go for reasons you don't understand. And that's called long Covid. Now other people have called that various names. Old age. Old age, because that happens to me after Covid and I think I get about 200 symptoms. I get about 200 symptoms a day now, and that's just the first five minutes after I wake up. I'm like, oh my back. Oh, you know, that sort of thing. So it's probably must have some long Covid.

Companies are discovering that all their big AI projects that were going to save them money and change the nature of the world have hit what some call the trough of disillusionment, and that it's not really changing the world the way they thought. And a lot of projects are stalled. I could have told you that. The reason I could have told you that is I tried several projects myself. I tried to use AI to do a bunch of things that would be completely relevant to what I do for a living. And I thought, man, I'm going to be the first one. I'm going to be the one who's the first cartoonist to use AI in like a real cool way that's really going to impress you. I can't get a thing to work. It's fun to talk to it and use it for education and stuff, but to actually turn it into a tool that I can use in my work? Nope. No luck at all.

I do hear that there's some upgrades to the DALL-E AI system, which I'

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ve been trying to build an agent in, and ran into some obstacles in terms of what it could or could not do. But the company was very responsive and they say in a week or so they're going to have a bunch of fixes and whatever so that I can get it to do what I want. So I'm open-minded about it maybe, but I'll let you know. So far AI, because it gives unreliable answers to things, there's just a whol…

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