Unless you’ve just emerged from an untrackable wasteland somewhere I expect you’ll have encountered Artificial Intelligence of one form or another. It’s on phones, your car, on Facebook, in MS Word etc etc. And now a Chinese company has produced DeepSeek, its answer to ChatGPT. To me, it’s like so many Chinese endeavours. Take the…
One of the nice things about being an Indie author is that you can make changes to your book almost at will. I’ve been known to make a few tweaks to my published books – an improvement here, a bug-fix there. But being able to change the cover is marvellous. I’ve used cover designers in…
It seems free speech is no longer a given in our society. Englishwoman Posie Parker, who is described as either a pro-woman or an anti-trans activist, depending on the point of view of the describer, came to Australia and New Zealand to argue the cause for women. Parker also argues for safe places for biological…
I mentioned last week that I’ve found a wonderful new way of being creative – Midjourney. It’s a website that uses Artificial Intelligence to create images based on a prompt entered by people like me. /imagine followed by whatever you’d like to see. The AI is learning all the time from choices people make, refining…