We’re trying AI at work because we need to help our instructors understand it better. One thing we’re trying is using the AI assistant to take notes in our Zoom meetings. It has been hilariously inaccurate—frequently putting the exact opposite of what we said. I.e., we said “Tool 1 is a great substitute for tool 2. We’ll explore tool 1’s ability to do x, y, and z.” And then 20 minutes talking about tool 1. And the summary substitutes the name of tool 2 everywhere we discussed tool 1.

I gave up most sweets for Lent, except for when I was visiting others (my great nephew’s first birthday cake was not to be missed). Most of my sweet indulgences come from home baking anyway. I made a cheesecake for Easter dinner tomorrow and I’ll be making a walnut coffee cake for breakfast, and i am so looking forward to both.

I have a cinnamon roll cake for tomorrow in the oven right now!

My house had been invaded by shit-flies, so I had to go to the hardware store for insecticide

"Where do you keep insecticide?"
"What for?
"Shit-flies.
"The ones that go zig zag zig? I hate those."
"Me too."
"Well, this is the strong stuff but you've got to be careful where you use it. This stuff is safer."
"Is the safe stuff effective?"
"Well...they don't like it."
"Gimme the toxic shit. I gotta kill 'em."

So now I've killed a bunch of them plus a cache of spiders that would have sent Matilda into a screaming frenzy, but my house is a little toxic and I've got dead flies everywhere.

Hec, always with the sweet talk and real-estate porn. This is what makes me happy, as a small donor today. [link]

This is what makes me happy, as a small donor today.

I hope she can help Oakland. Even Jerry Brown couldn't really pull the city together.

Happy about Barbara Lee!

One of the things my company says is going to get us profitable again is leveraging AI. Hasn’t affected my job yet, although our new planning tool is telling us that AI is integrated throughout in an upcoming release, so I’m sure finding out what that means will be something. I do hear that people are using something (I don’t know what) for copywriting, especially for e-merchandising, and for packaging. Some of my coworkers use gmail’s “polishing” on emails, I guess, but we haven’t been told we ought to or anything.

Lee has her work cut out for her, but if anyone can, it'd be someone like her. I hate that yahoo has some kind of AI summarizing my e-mails.