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  When a friend read my blog about our EV journey, she commented that people were more interested in what's happening with AI.  She challenged me about my AI assessment, so time to blog about it.  I last wrote about nascent AI two years ago,  https://kingsburyassociates.blogspot.com/2023/01/newest-ai-entrants-observations.html  and much has changed since then.   A number of these Chat bots are in wide use today.  Here is a short list: ChatGPT (by OpenAI) Google Gemini (by Google DeepMind / Google) Grammarly AI (by Grammarly Inc.) / Productivity-AI Engines Microsoft Copilot (by Microsoft) DALL·E / Other Image-/Creative-AI Engines (by OpenAI) Claude (by Anthropic) Character.AI Google Assistant I want to start with my own recent experience with ChatGPT and then the insights gained from the June & July meetings of my local MUG - Mac User Group, Washington Apple Pi.  I'll include links there to the group's website.  ChatGPT & Web search AI...

I thought it might be helpful to tell our story of shopping for EVs, our decision, and how it's worked out so far.  Comments, please! Our Plug in Prius We'd long owned a plug in Hybrid Prius , where plugging in to our regular driveway outlet, we'd get 9-12 miles on the 2nd battery, and for those local errands pretend we were driving an EV !  I think this Prius was one of the early vehicles with regenerative breaking , where use of the brakes adds electricity to the small extra plug in battery.  The biggest challenge to the plug in hardware was a habit to leave the cable outside, which resulted in corroding and no longer working.  So over the 12 years we owned it, we went through 4 different charging cables!   A cool charging story with our plug in Prius happened when we drove to Ashville, SC.  Approaching on the Rocky Mountain Highway, the road has a very long decline into the valley where Ashville lay.   I mentioned the regenerative breaking.  We...