Used to clean toilets, vacuum, mop and buff floors, clean windows, build bicycles. Loved it all.

Listen Linda… Sometimes you go to HD, buy stuff, and then forget you have to get it home.

Big Horse is at it again.

My company filed for two PPP loans to keep afloat. Any company could have just kept making money and the owners could have pocketed the cash. There were expectations that employees were not fired and other questions in the application that I can’t recall. When we applied for forgiveness on the loans we provided tax receipts and staff numbers over time. I’m sure it would have been pretty straightforward to lie or find someone to lie for you (accountant with less than stellar ethics).

USA?

That is helpful. Thank you.

I plan on going back by later today.

Dumb question… What’s the issue? I’m a Venza loving freak so I could be biased.

As others have noted, LLMs are prone to error and need review. They can be very helpful in taking large amounts of information and making it more concise.

To your question about how AI can generally be of use, AI is good at taking large amounts of information we humans normally would have issue consuming and reacting to and giving us reactions based on the algorithm we gave it related to the info. I’ll give you an example from my life that may make sense to you as a fellow small business owner.

I used to work for a large company that had a travel agent. I used to travel every week and was told to use the agency to book my flights. The corp has specific requirements about 2nd best cost and non stop vs 1 stop. I could end up with a crappy seat and extra flight stops and had no control officially. Back then I would use Expedia to stitch together what flights I wanted and then casually provide constraints to the agency so that I would get exactly the carrier, non stop flights and decent seats… But it required time to figure these things out. I was the AI taking all of the info thay mattered to me and crafted my result based on what I wanted. I would game the agency/corp’s constraints to get the one flight I wanted.

AI could be useful for managing your schedule (personal and work) to book sessions for clients. One could argue that how hard is it to just let clients book into your schedule, but consider Motion app. Motion can watch how you book clients, when you take lunch, when you normally start or end days, and help move appointments around or create availability on the fly. You could tell an AI app like motion that you need prep and clean up time, you take longer lunches two days a week, etc…

As with all AI you can do what it does. What’s interesting is AI can learn your processes and start to anticipate like a good Admin executive… But it takes training and maintenance. That’s the expensive part. Maybe time, maybe money, maybe both.

To make a long post longer, AI could help with marketing. It’s like the old school mail inserts, but with extra smarts. I’m sure there are AI marketing tools that take certain data and constraints and then shoot out various emails, calls, texts and posts to the demos you need at a frequency and amplitude that the tool thinks matches your business model. I’m speculating at this point tho.

Such a great subtle comedy. It’s in your face but somehow just passing by like a fly at high speed.

The two next options in the Movie Night are great too. Edge of Tomorrow is great when you think about the revised movie name.

Ooh… That is good news. Thank you. Screw Big Blue.

I know this deviates from your question a bit so I am apologizing up front (the sovcit posts that I love have made me wanna deviate)… I really like wunderground. I hate that IBM bought them though but it’s probably to monetize their trove of weather data. they have access to private weather stations, great viz of weather data by the hour, history to the day, etc. I use nextdns.io to block ads to the best of my ability but I know there is some device info they collect. It does have a rubust section on opting out and deleting tracking data. I don’t see lighting tracking regretfully. It’s worth trying out. The website can show lighting BTW.

You are mean. They’ll have nightmares.

Did I break a rule by adding a word in the title that is not in the story? I don’t have any of these cameras.

Oh no… no need. Just frustrating how Google buys up good companies to expand their footprint and then shutters them when they’ve used them up for their temporary worth. It’s like Smartthings. Amazing Kickstarter. Amazing community. Amazing API. Samsung slowly ruined it all to connect their devices.

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