Greening the Airport

Having a bullshit time copying images over from the Samsung Galaxy. Other than that, all is well.

I realise that, because I often read articles from Ireland's Own to my mother in her care facility near Gneevgullia, Co. Kerry, I have started to write in that genial, at times whimsical, style myself. So be it.

Whilst travelling this evening, I got chatting to a really interesting man from Punjab, who now lives in Wicklow and before that lived in Dublin. He was heading over to London to watch the Cricket and is an expert on computer science, and specifically on AI, and has two Masters Degrees from different institutions in Dublin. He is a coder too, using Python, and shared his opinion that ChatGPT is unimpressive. I enjoyed hearing that, especially coming from someone who knows the nuts and bolts. I mentioned that I was reading Caroline Bassett's Anti-Computing (available here on open access https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54468) as we speak. We agreed on how strange it is that the amazingness (and ominousness) of the Google search engine (an example of GOFAI in the parlance) is so overlooked. The search engine is not now, by many, even considered to be AI but it is a far more sophisticated beast than ChatGPT.

I was once told that the counties in Ireland which are now famous for hurling were precisely the ones noted for cricket historically. This sounds neat but is it true?

Analyse this image up at Dublin Airport as if you were Roland Barthes: