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Not a Busy Day

After waking up and finishing breakfast with the much-needed coffee, I set out to buy a few things. First, I headed for the pet-food store to get some nosh for Abby, and then I drove to another shop to fetch some toilet requisites. Once I got home, I prepared a delicious lunch: fish fingers with jasmine rice and tzatziki. We ate like two hungry wolves. After gulping down the last drop of coffee, while Ági had a lesson, I started to watch movies on chatGPT and autoGPT because Ági has a project about AI and its relevance in language learning. This new area in technology might seem scary and valuable at the same time. However, knowing human nature, I'm not convinced of its usefulness for now. I believe technology is far too advanced for human nature, and we, the mass, are not ready for it. The new AI tool, autoGPT, takes automation to another level, and its ability to serve us with the latest information - because it is connected to the internet - is mind-boggling. I'm not scared of them at all; on the contrary, I enjoy using them - at the moment, I only experiment with chatGPT - because their potential seems terrific. Anyway, once Ági finished her lesson, we decided to go for a long walk. The weather was beautiful, not too warm, one might say it was chilly despite the sunshine, and even the wind wasn't bothering us. The 5.5k walk took us an hour which is a new record. No wonder after returning home, we had to nod off after another. 

And the news of the day: Charlette sent me back the corrected essay and implied that we'd have lessons :) 

Well, this is it for today, I'm afraid, but tomorrow brings another day to study...
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