Chat GPT in Every Language (that I Know)

 

After my last blog post, I got curious about asking Chat GPT to do things politely in Romance languages. For whatever reason, in English I never said "please" to it, but I politely asked it to draw me a blue cat in French, and it did, but without getting all effusive about it or asking any questions about style.

In Spanish I politely asked it to draw an orange box with a blue cat inside, and it did without asking any questions or getting effusive.

I asked it the only question I could think of in Basque, "How much does this beer cost?" and after a slight pause it asked me in Basque about what kind of beer, and how much of it, and where I was because beer costs more in Paris than in Biarritz. So then I was going to ask in Irish if the women were beautiful, but for a moment I blanked on the word for "beautiful," so I asked if they were ugly, and after a slight pause it indignantly told me in Irish that every woman is beautiful in her own way. So Chat GPT is multilingual.

Yesterday I worked on campus, and as I was walking from the shuttle to my office building, I saw my Union buddy who looks like a leprechaun, and he commented on my argyle beret. I walked with Seabird at lunch and mentioned that people are all saying how much they like the argyle beret, which made me think that they considered it an improvement on the third eye beanie. She said the beret is so stylish, while the third eye beanie is very random. True, but I am more random than stylish. I had gotten cheap tickets to the volleyball game that evening as an employee, so Travalon and I went and enjoyed watching the ladies beat Marquette in three sets. So much action in a volleyball game! I love the long volleys.

Today I worked on campus, and my Union buddy who looks like a leprechaun sent me an email about a protest at noon to support education, so since Hardingfele said she was getting a virus and didn't really want to walk, I went down to Campus Mall. On the way someone handed me a little pot that will supposedly grow flowers, so that made it hard to applaud the speakers. I texted my Union buddy because I didn't see him, and he said he was there. I did find a couple of other Union buddies, but none of us had seen him, so we stood listening to the speeches... and then he got up and gave a speech! All the teaching assistants seemed to know who he was, since they cheered raucously for him even before he said anything. I had to leave halfway through, since I only get a half an hour for lunch, and when I got on the bus to go back up the hill, our student hourly was on it too, so we chatted. Then I watered my mystery pot and set it where it will get plenty of sunlight. I will post photos if it does anything.

It was one of those crazy days where I had a meeting in the afternoon I'd forgotten about and another unexpected one foisted on me, so that the day felt two weeks long. By the time I got home, I was too exhausted to go to the Holy Thursday Mass at any of the churches that were having it, which is neither our old church nor the one we attend most Sundays. Tomorrow I have three meetings as well, including one someone scheduled in the afternoon because I forgot to say I would be out of the office, so now instead of going to the Good Friday liturgy at one, I have to rush to the one at three... if I have more energy. I never heard about a Tenebrae service this year, so maybe they didn't do one anywhere.

Travalon has more duck photos from our dock. Lots of blue-winged teals.

And some scaups, doing their mating dance by stretching their necks way up.

And a couple of buffleheads.

And a male northern shoveler.

Roy and Roy Jr. were devastated because Newcastle crushed Crystal Palace 5-0.

I saw this fascinating chalk drawing right outside my building today.

I don't know what it means, but I like the pastel colors, the smiling stick figures holding hands, and the planetary symbols between them, and then the crescent moon in the middle of them. Is this some kind of astrological thing? Usually chalk drawings are either someone advertising something ("Come rush with the Tri-Delts!" "Prayer meeting tonight! Free Pizza!") or the preschool kids playing around, and this was clearly not done by a child, yet it doesn't seem to be advertising anything. It's just human art, not AI art, and that's what makes it great.

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