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Yes. I had a TRS-80 at work, a Kaypro at home and every magazine and textbook I could get. It was great! Even did a year of a computer science degree but then life got in the way.

I think AI has great potential in things like medical and scientific research as well as tasks like coding. Our firm is actively exploring ways to use it in engineering design as well as routine administrative tasks like taking meeting minutes and summarising long documents. I find it very handy to answer random questions that Google doesn’t do as easily. My concern is the uses it could be put to by people whose motivations are criminal or hostile, or if and when it develops to the point where we don’t know what it’s doing or lose control of it altogether.

Does anyone really need AI to organise a recipe? Reminds me of the early days of computers.

It's a good question and I'm not sure that anyone really knows what it means or which part of humanity would be most affected. Presumably the most complex and highly ordered societies would be the most vulnerable, but the actual threat is unclear, at least to me. I imagine massive disruption to services that rely on digital systems to operate would be the biggest threat, but that wouldn't necessarily translate to massive loss of life.

I think that's going to be one of biggest problems it's going to create, although if it manages to wipe out much of humanity along the way, maybe it won't have that much impact.

What are you doing that needs 100 new hires?

So you are hiring 100 AI agents disguised as humans?

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It's not very old and in immaculate condition and has about $1k of extras fitted. He got it for $6k. The only sad thing is that the owner had to sell it because he's unable to ride any longer.

My son just turned up this morning to show off a Royal Enfield Himalayan with just over 1,000k on the clock that he got for a great price from a guy who had to sell it for health reasons. Kitted out with panniers and other extras so he's very happy. I don't know much about bikes, but it looks great.

He's been eyeing off the Atlantic or the Pacific as well. After all, why stop at a gulf and a lake? His Justice Department lawyers have also been arguing in court that without his name on the Kennedy Centre they won't be able to raise enough funds to renovate it, and it might have to be knocked down and replaced with an amphitheatre.

But what are we going to talk about if sanity happens and everything goes back to normal?

Probably picking up his job performance bonus from Putin.

Money spent by the government on overseas aid is not a handout, it's a hand up. It typically goes to health, education and development in poorer countries as well as direct food aid in times of famine. As for people who send some of their money back to their families to help them out, it's their money. They earned it, they work here, pay taxes and also support our economy so they are doing their bit for this country as well. Saying that foreign aid recipients expect a handout as their human right and acquire a distorted sense of their own value and worth because they benefit from the aid is nonsense in my opinion. Trump got rid of USAID, which cost the US a relative pittance in cash but a huge amount in international goodwill. People in recipient countries died as a result. Was that a good outcome? in any case, Australia only ranks 25th out of 32 donor nations measured as a proportion of each country's national income, so you can hardly say that we are an overly generous nation.

I looked at reams of historical draws years ago and noticed apparent variations in the frequency with which certain numbers came up. So I tried writing programs to analyse the data and improve my odds, while knowing that in the long run all numbers had an equal probability of being drawn, assuming there was no bias in the system. In effect, I assumed there was some kind of short to medium term bias. However, even if there was it became clear that the odds were still so high I might as well have stuck to random numbers.

I agree as a parent it would be devastating to have your hopes raised but then dashed, but it's hard to be overly critical if the searchers were doing their best to keep the parents informed in real time. Also, we don't necessarily know exactly what they were told. It could have been anything from, `She's alive' or `We've found her, haven't been able to get to her yet but we think she may be alive'. Big difference, but the media would just focus on them being initially told she was alive and then criticise the mistake.

Funny but it’s AI unfortunately.

I’m sure she does. Her complete devotion to him has been well documented. She needs him and he needs her. It’s a bit sad really and probably won’t end well.

He’s the world’s most powerful loser.

So does your car. Perhaps you should stop driving it.

She was/is exceptionally good at her job of defending the indefensible and attacking the press. You have to admire her talent and confidence. She's only 28.

Karoline Leavitt is leaving the White House at the end of the month to look after her two children but she will continue to advise Trump from the sidelines. I could never decide whether she was very smart or incredibly naive or both but she was certainly articulate, which is more than could be said for her boss.