That was Chat GPT - i haven't used it for much else. I've found it's a bit like my uncle Vic - it will produce a long detailed answer, almost instantaneously, but the facts, although confidently presented, are not very reliable.

Yep! It's weird how often AI is outright wrong in it's answers.

The main value for research is that you can get to source material a bit quicker.

That's been my experience as well. It makes searches way more productive, faster, and as of now ad free. As with the Internet, we may be in a golden period where it's still the wild wild west of the tech. The Internet of 2000 is very different from what it has become.

Btw, my three nominations for Covid Hall of Fame would be (in alphabetical order):

1. Billy Bostickson - co-founder of DRASTIC, the most influential mini-Org in the fight to uncover the origin - also one of the guys who contacted Formosahut about our Proximal Origin (Pangolin Paper) research

2. Prof Richard Ebright - longtime contrary scientist who had been warning of a lab-leak pandemic since the days of Anthrax

3. Rand Paul - US politician who has done the most to expose Covid's bad actors in the political theatre

Could think of another 30 off-the-top-of-my-head - daresay there's another 500 if you delved - but probably not much more.

My vague plan is to put it on social media & ask for nominations - though i don't have an influential profile.

It's a great idea. Perhaps an influential person could put it on their blog?

I just had a disturbing covid related thought. In the near future, AI will be in every aspect of our lives, including on all our devices (well, Linux will be a hold out). Just as Covid provided the government an excuse to get into our bodies, AI will do the same for our devices. Imagine an AI covid, a virus I guess, that's infecting all devices. The answer? Mandatory 'vaccination' of all our gizmos, including all smart devices, by the ORG GODS. Everything will need to be certified, but it will be easy! And free! And it will only take a second to install that vaccine.