OpenAI API answers text based questions

https://beta.openai.com/examples/

http://beta.openapi.com allows you to place common English language
questions to which AI provides answers. Given below is my experiment.

Hope you find it interesting, not from the content value but from the
ability of AI to interpret questions!

Q: How can we alleviate loneliness among senior citizens?

A: One way to alleviate loneliness among senior citizens is to create
programs and activities that encourage socialization and connection.
This could include group outings, classes, volunteer opportunities,
and other activities that foster meaningful relationships.

Q: Are there professional story tellers in India to engage Senior
Citizens groups?

A: Yes, there are professional storytellers in India who engage with
senior citizen groups. These storytellers often use traditional folk
tales and stories to entertain and educate the audience.

Q: Who are they? Where are they to be found

A: Professional storytellers in India can be found in many cities and
towns. They often work with local organizations and cultural centers
to provide storytelling services to senior citizen groups.

Q: Is there any such person in Hyderabad or Bengaluru

A: Yes, there are professional storytellers in Hyderabad and Bengaluru
who provide storytelling services to senior citizen groups.

Q: Can you give contact details of any one of them

A: Unknown

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You are welcome to share your own questions and answers; better if
they are related to senior citizens.



Dr P Vyasamoorthy / 9490804278

Fwd: Clothelines

Clotheslines

From your terrace if you observe clotheslines in houses nearby, it
would be fascinating. Some have regular clotheslines with proper
posts, wires, clips etc well designed in a professional way. Many dry
their clothes just using the balcony railings. In some gated
communities, well planned clothes washing area provides ample drying
lines as well. However, most are some sort of makeshift arrangements
and are mere apologies for clotheslines.

The clothes hung over there are a rainbow mixture, airing themselves
with gay abandon, unmindful of the gender, age, style of the wearers
or owners. You may see regular, occasional, upper, lower, inner,
formal, informal clothing. You may see undergarments teasing you guess
whose they could be. BRAs and thongs may kindle the poet in you.
Mentally matching them with owners will be titillating, if not just
time-pass. Keen observation of clothes would give a clue about the
members of a household – children, men, women, adults, youngsters,
older people etc. You may even guess if they are middle class or
affluent! Or if some guests are being entertained.

Clotheslines in the terrace offer the proverbial pretext for young
girls to meet their lovers for a few moments of privacy. Romance
flourishes as semi-wet clothes flutter due to the kindness of winds.
The place also gives privacy for some villainous oldies / aunties to
hatch some activities harming their enemies!

My friend's wife told her husband, pointing her fingers to clothes put
for drying in the opposite flat: "Our neighbour does not know how to
wash clothes. They are always dirty, never fully clean." Next day she
exclaimed: Looks like she has heard my comments. See today how clean
their clothes are! The husband told her: "No, No, I have just cleaned
OUR window glass!"(Joke courtesy: RVR)

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Dr P Vyasamoorthy / 9490804278

Fwd: Google Reviews

Google Reviews

 

I use Google maps when I must reach some nearby places by walking, if the destination is new to me. The facility is so convenient that you do not need to ask anyone for directions.  I had once experienced a similar ease of walking to my destination, without asking anyone, just following the detailed local map given free in the tourist office in Vienna. That was in May 1991.

 

Currently Google Maps allow you to write reviews of establishments known to you or visited by you. In fact, Google Maps, as a part of their tracing / tracking your location activity, makes suggestions for reviews. There are several simple questions asked involving YES / NO / MAYBE / I do not Know as options. If it is a Kirana shop, for example, you may be asked if product groups XYZ are sold there! Their probing queries are meaningful and insightful too. For instance, I was asked: Is this outfit open on Wednesdays?   Such a question might have been triggered by the fact that certain market / shopping areas are closed on certain weekdays instead of Sunday!

 

In Hyderabad we have weekly Shanty. Near our house on Mondays, a couple of streets, mostly dead ends, get filled with vegetable vendors. On Sundays, near Koti in Hyderabad, I have seen old books being sold on footpaths by many vendors. The footpath is relatively free, that is an incentive!  Is there a method of writing reviews of such temporary / mobile markets?

 

Mutual sharing of experience is useful to all concerned. I have written many reviews of nearby shops. I do not know if I can edit or revise my reviews.

 

 

  

Dr P Vyasamoorthy / 9490804278

Fwd: You have become old when …

You have become old when …

 

 1.     You have become old when a boy calls you Thattha

 2.     You have become old when you start using a cane or wheelchair

 3.     You have become old when some girls sharing a dirty joke do not lower their voices

 4.     You have become old when steps look double when you climb down stairs

 5.     You have become old when people start speaking louder on seeing your hearing aids

 6.     You have become old when dogs bark and chase you as you go for evening walks

 7.     You have become old when the frequency of masturbation comes to almost nil

 8.     You have become old when eyes water if you stare at TV or laptop for a few minutes

 9.     You have become old when Medicine box is bigger than the lunch box

10.   You have become old when time stands still all the time

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 Dr P Vyasamoorthy / 9490804278

White Lies while using the Mobile Phones

White Lies while using the Mobile Phones

 

Most of us would tell white lies while using the mobile. To a question "Did I disturb you?" you may mostly say NO just to avoid hurting your friend and keep wondering when he will end the call! You may say 'he is not around' when someone asks if your brother is around and to give him the phone, after getting a silent signal from your brother to avoid calling him. When some friend complains that your son is not picking up the phone, you may say: 'Is that so? he forgot the mobile while going out.'

 

If you want to discontinue the conversation sooner you may say it is noisy and the voice is breaking and suggest we talk later in the day. You might increase the TV Volume to signify noisy background on your side and opt to move out to some other spot, often saying: 'Signal not clear' etc. You may do this even to avoid being overheard  by somebody nearby.

 

Sometimes the caller may be overwhelmingly bossy and upon suspecting a white lie he may ask you to come on a video call! Ten you are caught. You may say that the Internet is weak and then disconnect your mobile! At times you may say "I am out of my house / office shopping, will do that when I reach home" to avoid doing something immediately.

 

White lies are useful to avoid temporary hardship / inconveniences and are not very harmful. Is there an App that will detect lies when uttered by others from their voice changes and caution you? How popular will that be? Will you pay for it? How about such Apps working against you? Can you come up with a set of universal white lies that might work in most situations? 

 

Questions and questions galore but no answers!

 

 

 

Time Pass - water

WATER - Time pass 

1. Water is a three letter word when transliterated into Tamil

2. Does water sublimate from its solid state?

3. Can you water the plants during nights?

4. What happens when water gets contaminated in a hospital?

5. How may glasses of water should one consume per day?

6. "Assessing requirements of double filtered water among patients in General Ward" is a useless topic

7.  Human body comprises mostly of just water, in fact 60% is water only.

8. How many days can one survive without water? About thee days.

9. One can die even if small quantity is inhaled but one can drink a lot of water and live.

10.This sentence contains 'dihydrogen monoxide' and its common name: water as the tenth word

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I copied the above from my draft  notebook. Appears to be some answer to Prof Seshadri's game: 

Write ten sentences with a word chosen by you in first, second, third etc positions in sentences of your own.

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Dr P Vyasamoorthy / 9490804278

Polyglot - Knowing many Languages

Polyglot - Knowing many Languages

 

If you know many languages you are at an advantage over others. I have written about polyglots earlier. I want to reproduce the last para from there before I proceed further:

 

I know Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and English. French and German – I have forgotten as quickly as I learnt them; I have retained just enough skill to ascertain the language of an article and perhaps translate the title.  Sanskrit was my second language in School. I cannot avoid exposure to Hindi as Modi's government is imposing it on everyone in devious ways.

 

Info given above may be presented as a table for easy comprehension / comparison.

 

Language	Read	Write	Speak	Understand If spoken	Remark
Tamil	Y	Y	Y	Y	Studied
Telugu	N	N	Y	Y	Local influence
Kannada	N	N	Y	Y	Mother tongue
English	Y	Y	Y	Y	Studied
French	Y	N	N	N	Sufficient to translate titles / headers
German	Y	N	N	Y somewhat	Ditto. Studied
Malayalam	N	N	N	Y
Sanskrit	Y	Y	N	Y partially	Studied
Hindi	Y	Y	N	Y	Studied
Sign Language				Y

 

It is the last row that brings me on par with dogs and certain other animals. We have a few street dogs that take shelter in our terrace. My daughter and I 'speak' to the dogs in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Hindi etc depending upon our moods. They understand all our languages well but behave as if they are deaf, especially when we want them to go out! Even human beings may benefit If they pretend to be deaf and do not respond, on certain occasions!

 

 

Fwd: Sounds from neighbourhood

Sounds from neighbourhood

I am exposed to many types of sounds in my neighbourhood. They tell
many stories: interesting to hear, interpret and have some fun.

The day starts with Allahoo Akbar prayer from a nearby mosque at 5'o
clock in the morning. Then Hanuman chalisa from a temple on the main
road via loudspeakers. A cart carrying Saibaba makes a round at about
9 in the morning blaring chants all the way.

My gate has a latch where two halves meet. Opening and closing the
gate make different noises. I can make out whether it is the maid, or
the postman or the "Chatta wala" who is opening it depending upon the
time. If the gates are fully opened, the hinges make a unique
crackling noise – just yesterday I oiled them!

Other sounds are not time bound. Some are mechanical or metal made. My
left-side neighbour has a large metal gate that opens by being pushed
along rails. Whenever it is opened, I know they are taking the car out
or bringing it in. My right-side resident has a single gate. When the
servant opens it, it makes a different noise than when a vendor opens
it. I can make out who is going in / out.

The opposite house has a double gate and a single gate. There is a
bachelor staying on the first floor. When he returns home late in the
night, he stops the car smoothly. Closes the car door as if it is a
new car on its first day of use. Opens the gate as silently as
possible and tip toes up the stairs accosting his girlfriend. The same
gate makes a jarring noise when used by the office boy employed in the
office on the ground floor.

Vendors create their own sounds. "Koorkaailei" is an automated sound
from speakers in a vegetable vendor's cart. An indecipherable sound
tears your ears from the fruit vendor. The courier guy puts out such a
wail that you tend to drop everything on hand and rush to the door.

If you are keen in observing through your ears, not just eyes, you can
'see' a lot and understand the environment / surroundings better, for
your own good.

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Dr P Vyasamoorthy / 9490804278

Fwd: What is on your Desktop?

What is on your Desktop?

I heard a friend telling me that he was busy decluttering some mess. I
took a cue and started pruning my desktop. I chose desktop because
that is relatively simple and after finishing, I can gloat over doing
something useful for the day. Inject some variety into a somewhat
boring routine. Keeping digression aside, let me dwell into the topic
straight.

My desktop contained some 64 shortcuts. The shortcuts refer to things like:

a. Documents and files meant for reading later;
b. Links to zoom and other meeting sites / applications
c. MS Office applications;
d. PPTs of lectures listened to
e. Browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Opera, MS Edge etc
f. Games or puzzles like: Word Finder, Wordle, Spellathon. Scrambler etc;
g. Tools like 'Google Visualisation tool; Pre-pend paywall tool;
FlashNote etc;
h. Bank statements;
i. Daily prayer song;
j. Forthcoming events to participate online;
k. An odd collection of items I cannot remember why they are on the desktop!

Deleting those that I do not need any longer or items under k above
was easy. I also re-arranged the icons into recognisable groups or
clusters as indicated above. My desktop is now decluttered, usable,
useful and I hope will be better used.

Have you discovered items under group k? What did you do with them?

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