I guess each ghost had a set pattern of travel, unless they got within a certain range of Pac-Man, at which point (different sets of) simple rules would take over their movement. Which I suppose is game AI, at its most primitive.
Someone tried ChatGPT, again:
JETERSON.
Brusen was one of the greatest Presidents. Not a single person from his administration was ever charged with a crime. No wars. Never lost a single vote in Congress.
You must be joking. Seriously, Brusen? Couldnāt hold a candle to Jamcs H. Pulk.
Well, yes. He had no hands. Which only makes his achievements that much more impressive.
Meet President Willian H. Brusen from the great state of Onegon
If you think US presintentopodes are inaccurate, look at the James Bondopodes:
AI makes it so much easier to generate more noise, more ambiguity, more disinformationā¦ weāve reached a point where, barring a catastrophic, semi-permanent grid crash where electricity supply is unable to meet the demands of LLMs, AI, crypto etc., anyone with some literacy, a connection to the web, and time on their hands can join in polluting the existing pool of information on a much much bigger scale that before.
Itās Neal Stephensonās Anathem with Samman explaining the problem of The Reticulum, bogons, carefully crafted crap, inanition, Bulshytt, etc.
Scaling up the bulshytt has never been so easy.
The only way to sort the signal from noise is going to involve keeping fresh batteries in our crap detectors. Sharper minds, critical thinking, skepticismā¦
[ETA] andā¦
How are these getting worse?
Also: LOL. OpenAI usage drops off a cliff the day schools end for the summer. Almost all the people using OpenAI are cheating students, which is horrifying on multiple levels, but also doesnāt bode well at all for the future of the company.
WTF!!!
Iām not sure, but I think it merged Eisenhower with Khrushchevā¦ Nikita is not pleasedā¦
I was struck by this lineā¦
You canāt bail this out, because there is nothing to bail out.
It strikes me that there is a longer history here, going back to the 70s and the shift to neo-liberalism more generally, where the economy is no longer centered on at least something thatās tangible and real (physical products, infrastructure, etc), but on intangibles (finance, insurance, investment banking)ā¦ and I donāt know that the role of computing as a sector of the economy has been sufficiently centered and studied, especially as internet access became widely accessible to people and corporationsā¦ the colonization of the internet plays some kind of role here, it seems to me.
Iām especially wondering about the role of the rise of the tech sector in the 80s and 90s, and how that intersects NAFTA and that wave of corporate off-shoring. Just as that was happening, the tech sector was starting to get itās feet under it both in terms of selling physical products (computers, and later lappys and phones), and less tangible productsā¦
I donāt knowā¦ half-formed thoughts.
It feels as if everything is aligning for disaster, and I fear thereās nothing that can be done to avert it.
Everything feels like this lately, too. 
Doesnāt bode well for the future of the world. Would you use a bridge designed by a Chat GPT trained āengineerā? Moi non plus.
Also in the parade of American presidents there the current encumbrance looks just like spectacularly corrupt and useless Irish billionaire Denis OāBrien.
An ancestor of this guy?
Anywaysā¦ tax the rich, where ever they liveā¦
Only if they successfully bred the asshole out.
Heāsā¦ well heās super litigious so I donāt want to expose the cafe to anything. But he has been found in a tribunal to be utterly corrupt (disageee Denis? Well appeal then. We all look forward to the discovery). He ran dodgy mobile phone companies in the Caribbean after his experience of running shitty one here. During the long recession his companies seemed to always be the only ones benefiting from the curtailed government spending. The place was falling apart but his company was digging up the steeet putting in water meters that would never be used while the actual infrastructural debt was left to accrue. He bought a petrol station company (I canāt remember the brand, itās now Circle K) whose stations, curiously, had the only bank machines reliably stocked with cash during the Long Recessionā¦.
His house is full of Al Capone memorabiliaā¦