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AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EXPERIMENT USING GOOGLE'S GEMINI, PART THREE: FROM NAPOLEON BONAPARTE TO MUHAMMAD ALI

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  As a recap, my artificial intelligence (AI) experiment was about finding who had the most books, whether autobiographies or biographies, written about them using Google's AI tool, Gemini, to determine the results. Following my last two blog posts, which set out details of the experiment, this third part of the blog post, will reveal my results of the experiment. But as detailed in the earlier blog posts, the results should be treated with a lot of caution and even disregarded because of the significant limitations of Google's Gemini. As mentioned, I searched the number of books written for nearly 11,000 people, 10,976 people to be precise, which is a very big sample. But 1,549 searches of people yielded no results, that's nearly 15 per cent of total searches that Google's Gemini drew a blank. Also because of a lack of quantification, a further 2,809 people were left out of my ranking. On top of the 1,549 people for which no search results could be found, this m...
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AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EXPERIMENT USING GOOGLE'S GEMINI, PART TWO: FROM JOE BIDEN TO CHARLY WEGELIUS

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  Following my last blog post, which set out details of my artificial intelligence (AI) experiment of finding out who has the most books written about them by using Google's Gemini, I was hoping that this second part of the blog post would reveal the results of my experiment experiment. But because of the length of this blog post, I will reveal the search results in a third and final part. As mentioned, I searched the number of books written for well over 10,000 people, 10,718 people to be precise, which is a very big sample. But 1,544 searches of people yielded no results, that's nearly 15 per cent of total searches that Google's Gemini drew a blank (see Endnote 6 on no search results) and, in 50 cases, Gemini didn't even recognise the person's name (see Endnote 7 on names not recognised). There were some very surprising names that yielded no search results, such as the names of Joe Biden, King Charles III (aka Tampon Charlie), Benjamin Disraeli, Muammar Gaddafi...
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AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE EXPERIMENT USING GOOGLE'S GEMINI, PART ONE: FROM MARILYN MONROE TO PETER NOONE

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  This blog post originated when I was sitting on the toilet (perhaps too much detail there) reading a newspaper's review of a biography of Marilyn Monroe - James Patterson and Imogen Edwards-Jones' The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe . The book review wasn't a favourable one, not least because the reviewer, Anne Billson, felt there was no need for yet another biography of Marilyn Monroe. She noted there have been “more than 3,000 books” already written about Marilyn Monroe. That figure sparked a thought about who has had the most biographies (including autobiographies) written about them, which I thought would make for an interesting blog post. But the plot thickened when I checked how many biographies had been written about Marilyn Monroe. Using Google's artificial intelligence (AI) search tool, Gemini, I came across two very different answers and none of which came close to the 3,000 books that Anne Billson mentioned. My first search came up with 600 books, and my seco...
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ANDREW CONRU AND HIS PHILANTHROPIC ACTIVITIES

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Below is a blog post that I submitted on Adult FriendFinder yesterday. Perhaps not surprisingly, it was denied twice. I'm posting it here for safekeeping. ________  MESSAGE TO BROCK PURPURA, FRIENDFINDER NETWORKS' CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER I'd   be very grateful if Site Support could pass this message to Brock Purpura, the chief executive officer of FriendFinder Networks, the online dating company that runs Adult FriendFinder and other dating platforms, or at least alert him to this message. Many thanks. Before going on, I want to stress that this blog post is factual and in no way is it intended to be inflammatory, quite the opposite. The post doesn't contravene the site's terms of use so I very much hope it will get approved for release when reviewed. Many members here are very concerned about recent news about Andrew Conru, the owner of FriendFinder Networks, and particularly news of his philanthropic activities. The news became public late last week. The news is...
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ORIGINAL VERSUS COVER: PART TWELVE, TAINTED LOVE

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Gloria Jones: Here is my next and final post in the series in which I'll argue that the cover is better than the original version of the song. This time I'm going to compare Gloria Jones' original version and Soft Cell's cover version of the song, Tainted Love . Written by Ed Cobb, Tainted Love was originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1964. Gloria Jones is an American Motown soul singer who made it bigger in Britain than in America. With this song, she is regarded as the Queen of Northern Soul, a 1970s' music scene that flourished in the North and Midlands of England - the centre of this scene was the Wigan Casino. Gloria Jones also played keyboards and sang in Marc Bolan's English glam rock band, T. Rex. She gave birth to Marc Bolan's son, well the baby was her son too! Gloria Jones' Tainted Love : Gloria Jones' version of Tainted Love is good, and Glen Campbell played lead guitar in the song. But in 1981, Soft Cell covered this song which when ...
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