So the critics clained there was evidence of AI in the winning writings. At this point I am not sure if any claims of AI can be acccurate. Just the other day I submitted one of my personal webpages to a Search Engine Optimization website that claimed to be able to tell if your page had been written by an AI. (OK, it only accepted the first 2048 words submitted, so the sample is small.) Well, the damned website claimed that my page was "80%" written by an AI. In fact, none of my pages have any AI content at all; they are all composed and presented by myself, alone. Maybe it was my pedantic, stilted, technophilic writing style that mislead the SEO site to conclude "80%". I don't know. But the exercize was very interesting, and now I don't trust any of this controversy about what I call "so-called artificial intelligence".

So if I were a literary writer (which I am not), I would not worry about this.

[ Need I say more? ]

Maybe you should buy a hybrid, or even an EV. With them, the A/C and other accessories continue to run (because of the big battery at the back of the car) even when the gasoline engine turns off at a stop-light or in heavy traffic.

Yes, you are correct, they do have an electric motor, and that is why they are so much better that an internal combustion engine. If everyone drove a hybrid or an electric vehicle, we wouldn't even have to discuss this.

I drive a hybrid. When the engine isn't needed, as in idling, it automatically stops running. (Saves gas and pollution.) The car is still On and when I take my foot off the brake or touch the accelerator pedal, the engine automatically comes to life again. What could be simpler? Saves gas and pollution. But some big companies and many car owners have this love affair with gasoline. I am afraid that they hasten the coming lethal effects of global warming. (For details, read "The Next Civil War" by Stephen Marche (2022), well researched and very prophetic.

So, an apparently portable device that can affect people apparently no matter where they worked in the embassy, and apparently or probably located at some distance from the embassy ... So, the rate of diminishment of the supposed radiation would be 1/r^2, I guess. So some kind of focussing process must be used to direct all that energy at the embassy. But it is still portable? And how does it affect anyone nearer to it than the embassy? No word about wavelength, so I suppose microwaves or shorter. So, lots of questions here.

Fixing that. https://www.nordspace.com/spac...
But I don't know when it will be operational.

... but how can I buy one of those "Zero" badges ??

No need really to "verify it", because the "AI" generated every possible combination of the 13 letters (like the thousand monkeys that I mentioned above), so of course "MarvinMerrill" is in that list, and my name too, and yours as well ! Not to mention the names of all of the suspects, regardless of their involvement.

But what was done is not cryptography and it all proves nothing at all.

A thousand monkeys, each with a typewriter. One will everntually type "Marvin Merrill".

Hear! Hear! Very eloquently stated.

What is happening might be (and probably is) a natural process of evolution, but it is certainly NOT due to polar bears who are "rewiring their own genetics". The headline of this article and certain statements within the article are extreme examples of the anthropomorphication that occurs today in the popular media and in pieces written by people who don't understand that most things happen in the universe without any "wilful action" by anyone or anything. It's all just because of the Laws of Physics, as one of my physics profs used to grandly declare.

Hey, everybody. What was actually signed was a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the federal government and the government of the province of Alberta (one out of ten provinces), regardless of the breathless reporting that you might read in the popular news media. It is not a binding agreement (yet) and it is certainly not a law. And there is a good chance that it will fail, because of the need for further agreements, such as with the province of British Columbia (which is against the MOU) and many voting citizens of Canada who are also against it. So don't get your hats in a knot just yet.

Not on my website, it isn't (composed by AI). Content on my site is all my own creation. There is even a disclaimer on my home page, saying that there is no AI-generated content. And I try to block visits by any AI-bots that I can identify.

I know that many of you will say "What's the point?" and that copyright is now irrelevant, etc etc. Maybe I do it for fun, or just some inner need to express myself. I don't know. But I do know that so-called "artificial intelligence" has a long way to go before it can truly Think.

Thank you. I am now better informed. (You didn't say it, but I guess that is where the idea came from.)