The 2023 SIHA Award

The 2023 SIHA Award.

 Time Travel: 55 years into the past. Each year I search for interesting aliens in Hollywood (see the 2022 SIHA). Here in 2023, the SIHA award is a retro-SIHA for the Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth" (originally shown on television in 1968).

 Artificial Intelligence Trek. Most of the images in this blog post were AI-generated (but not the one shown to the right). Back in April of this year, I tried to collaborate with the AI-powered chatbots Bard and ChatGPT in an attempt to write a kind of sequel to the Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth". 

 Here's Looking At You. Later, in July, Bard was given the ability to discuss images that are uploaded by users during chat sessions with Bard (see my blog post "Bard Images."). When asked by users, what does Bard have to say about AI-generated images?

cat-like aliens by Mr. Wombo

 An AI chatbot evaluates an AI-generated image. I just asked Bard to comment on the image that is shown to the left (the entire conversation is here). This image of cat people was generated by WOMBO Dream. I asked, "Bard, do you think that these two alien cat people in this AI-generated image might be what Gene Roddenberry would have imagined for the true physical form of Isis?"

 Yada yada yada. Bard's reply was rather long-winded (as usual for Google's loquatious chatbot), but it included this: "Overall, the AI-generated image provides a compelling and visually stunning interpretation of what Gene Roddenberry may have imagined for the true physical form of the alien Isis. It is a vision that is both beautiful and mysterious, reflecting Roddenberry's optimistic view of the future and his belief in the potential for positive change."

Assignment: Earth book cover

 Bard Blather. Sadly, I have no confidence that Bard actually could "see" the image. Bard has seemingly been designed to tell human users what they want to hear. This is the text prompt that was used with WOMBO Dream (which I refer to as "Mr. Wombo") to generate the "cat-like aliens" image (above): "Full color science fiction book cover illustration showing alien cats, dressed Victoria's Secret style, sparkling jewelry, exoplanet background".

 Humanoid Cats. An AI-generated book cover illustration for an imaginary novel called Assignment: Earth is shown in the image to the right. I pasted in images of Earth and Mars and added the title, but the rest of this image was generated by Mr. Wombo. To get the human-like hand, I had to paste into the reference image a human hand and I used: "Full color science fiction book cover illustration showing an alien cat, dressed Victoria's Secret style, sparkling jewelry, a human-like hand holding a crystal ball, exoplanet background".

Assignment: Earth, the movie.

 Mystery. One of the long-standing mysteries about Assignment: Earth was the identity of the actress who played the alien "cat woman" Isis in that episode of Star Trek. In 2019 it was finally revealed that the actress was April Tatro.

 Image Composite. For the image that is shown to the left, I pasted in 1) an image of the Moon, 2) a tiny image of the Enterprise, 3) the text, and 4) an image of Isis the cat from the 1968 television show. The rest of the image was generated by WOMBO Dream.

 Backstory for Gary Seven and Isis. I got Bard to help me invent the name "Zyny" for the aliens who long ago established a colony of humans on the distant exoplanet Zyphyra (see this chat session). Gary Seven was born on Zyphyra and is the seventh clone of a telepathic mind clone network that is known as the "Gary" network.

Gary Seven meets Isis.

 Birthday Boy. When Gary Seven was three years old (this is slightly more than four Earth years old, given the difference in the orbits of Earth and Zyphyra) he was given a pet cat by the Zyny. This "pet cat" is actually a shape-shifting alien artificial life form composed of nanites that quickly establishes telepathic communication with Gary Seven. 

 Home on the Exoplanet. I had DALL-E 3 create an image depicting: "a high resolution science fiction movie still showing a four year old Robert Lansing playing with a black kitten, Robert is dressed in futuristic clothing, a futuristic house interior in the background". I then used that DALL-E-generated scene as a reference image with WOMBO Dream (the resulting image is shown to the right). The human colonists on Zyphyra refer to their "pets" as the "Zyn" and even after 6,000 years those colonists on Zyphyra still only had a vague understanding of the Zyny.

Some Gary mind clones.

 Shape-shifting. In my imagination, the Zyny have moved themselves into the Hierion Domain, but they make use of nanorobotic helpers that exist in the Hadron Domain, the universe as we humans know it. Those nanorobotic helpers of the Zyny are known to the human residents on Zyphyra as the Zyn. The Zyn are shape-shifters, composed of femtobots and able to take on any convenient physical form.

 Telepathy. The Zyn are telepathically linked to the Zyny and each Zyn, such as Isis, is designed so as to be able to telepathically communicate to its human "owner". The question becomes, why did the young Gary Seven give the name "Isis" to his Zyn? I imagine that the process went something like this...

 Why use the name "Isis"?
Gary Seven had eagerly awaited his third birthday and the arrival of his personal Zyn. As soon as he touched the small black kitten, there was a wind-like voice whistling in his head: Hello, Gary. 

Figure 1. Vesta the "cat woman" by DALL-E.

However, those two words only gradually emerged from a much larger bundle of concepts and words that were suddenly bouncing around in Gary's mind. He spoke out-loud to the cat, "Is that you?" But he could not restrain the flood of other thoughts that were in his mind, swirling around all that he had heard about telepathic contact with the Zyn.

Gary Seven was not a telepathic novice. He had gestated in constant telepathic contact to his mother and he was also quite familiar with the minds of the other Gary mind clones. Gary's telepathic contacts to other humans had all been relatively shallow linkages, allowing exchange of mostly language-like information and a few touches of emotions. 

Figure 2. by WOMBO Dream

Now, some of the telepathic signals from the kitten clearly synchronized with its movements, but others were more mysterious. Vast and new conceptual spaces suddenly opened up in Gary's mind, creating a thought vortex that Gary had never previously experienced. Gary had seen historical/educational depictions of the ancient times when humans from Earth had first been brought to Zyphyra. Gary asked, "You brought us here from Earth?"

Gary's parents exchanged glances. His mother said, "He must be speaking to the Zyny!"

Gary's father muttered, "Don't fill his mind with nonsense."

Most people on Zyphyra could never link their minds to the Zyny and a few were genetic throw-backs who could not even telepathically communicate to their own personal Zyn. With rather limited telepathic ability, Gary's father thought that reports of mental contact with the Zyny were simply religious nonsense. 

Figure 3. Vesta by Mr. Wombo.

However, Gary's mother had a powerful telepathic mind and a genetic pattern that allowed her Phari endosymbiont to link her mind efficiently to her own Zyn and on to the Zyny. She had worked hard to exercise Gary Seven's telepathic mind and prepare him to be able to efficiently link his own mind to that of his Zyn.

Gary Seven had been warned by his mother to remain silent while telepathically communicating, particularly when in the presence of weak telepaths like his father. The kitten looked into Gary's eyes and he thought he "heard": I did. But his mind echoed with other concepts: We is I. I is I is. I is the one. I is the we. I help Earth. I help humanity. I help Gary. I need Gary. Gary genes are good... The thoughts of the Zyny rolled on, endlessly. Most of the telepathic information stream from the Zyny passed into Gary Seven's brain and found no points of resonance and only baffled the boy. It would be decades before Gary could fully control his telepathic powers.

Figure 4. Vesta the scholar.

However, I is I is somehow resonated with Gary's mind. And when Gary Seven's mother asked him, "Do you have a name for your Zyn?" he replied, "I'll call her I-is-i-is!"

Gary's mother said, "Oh! Isis is a nice name!"

     __________________

 Vesta the Vegan. Back in the 1970s when I was discovering science fiction as a written literary genre, I read every story by Edward Elmer Smith (including The Vortex Master) that I could find and I was introduced to an alien who adopted the name Vesta. Here is how Smith described Vesta: "a supple, lithe, pantherish girl with vertically-slitted yellow eyes, pointed ears, and a long and sinuous, meticulously-groomed tail". Figure 1, above, shows the cat woman that was produced by DALL-E 3 to go along with that description of Vesta. 

April Tatro as Isis (humanoid form)

I then used Figure 1 as a reference image with WOMBO Dream to make the imaginary book cover that is shown in Figure 2 (above) for a book that Smith never wrote called "The Vesta Vortex".

 Figure 3 (above) shows a very furry version of Vesta that was generated by Mr. Wombo without the help of a reference image from DALL-E. I had to paste some human-like hands into this image.

 Human-Cat Hybrids. As imagined by E. E. Smith, Vesta was language scholar who knew 50 languages. She was useful to have around on a spaceship during galactic adventures (see Figure 4, above). I don't know why Mr. Wombo added the small human figure to Figure 4.

Are those cat ears?

It is possible that E. E. Smith's cat-like alien character, Vesta, was my first exposure to the idea of a space alien that is physically similar to an Earthly cat, but it was about at the same time that I saw the Star Trek episode "Assignment: Earth" in fuzzy black and white television images. 

Apparently, the make-up crew for Star Trek tried to give April Tatro some cat-like features including cat-like ears that were made from some of the hair in her wig, but I could never see details like that when I watched Star Trek re-runs on a very small T.V. screen back when I was in my personal Golden Age of science fiction.

humanoid cat by Mr. Wombo

It was a major struggle to try to get Mr. Wombo to generate a reasonable human-cat hybrid. For the image to the right I used this text prompt: "high resolution full color movie still showing the pink human face of Meg Ryan, human mouth and nose, Meg Ryan is twenty years old, Meg Ryan is cute girl, Meg Ryan has a human face, Meg Ryan has long white whiskers, a futuristic alien city in the background, Meg Ryan is dressed Victoria's Secret style". The image shown to the right is one of the the more interesting human-cat hybrids that was generated by Mr. Wombo. There are some more variations on this theme in the image at the bottom of this blog post.

 Creative Block. I suppose an "Assignment: Earth" television show could not really be produced until this millennium. Maybe fans have been kept waiting in order to allow for computer software to be developed that can be used to create interesting visual depictions of aliens like Isis the shape-shifter.

1960 space opera Vesta.

Much of the online commentary that has been written for "Assignment: Earth" completely fails to even discuss the idea of unseen aliens secretly guiding Humanity into the future. One person who totally bought into this concept of helpful aliens was Dayton Ward. 

2023 cat-faced Vesta.
Who's looking at her face?

E. E. Smith often described space aliens as being from warm planets and not being particularly concerned with wearing clothing. 

For the image that is shown to the left, Mr. Wombo allowed the cat-like alien woman to have human-like skin instead of the fur used in Figure 3.

 Over in the lower nipple universe. For the image shown to the right, Mr. Wombo depicted Vesta as having a very feline head. Yes, this is pretty much how I imagined Vesta when I was 12 years old, except that Mr. Wombo likes to make her hair look like cat legs thanks to the unavoidable and annoying limitations of stable diffusion. 

Retro-SIHA award winner in
2023- "Assignment: Earth".

 Fair Use. And the answer is "no"... the free and always-safe-for-work version of WOMBO Dream did not generate these nipples (above)... I'll call them my pulp science fiction fantasy pasties (source).

  Gary Seven and Isis. I can't stop myself from wondering about the kind of relationship that would exist between a boy like Gary Seven growing up on the planet Zyphyra and his "pet cat", Isis, who can take on any convenient physical form. If there ever is an "Assignment: Earth" television show, it would be fun if during each episode, Isis would morph into a new physical form, allowing her nanite-powered shape-shifting ability to be witnessed by one of the human characters appearing in that episode. 

The other issue is the type of telepathic powers that all of the Zyn have, including Isis. In my imagination, in emergency situations, Isis could occasionally allow Gary Seven to see her morph or otherwise make use of her advanced alien nanotechnology. 

A Zyn helper using a form
of nanite-powered telepathy.

 Prime Directive. In my imagination, it is a requirement of Zyny culture that they never reveal the advance abilities of their Zyn helpers to primitive creatures such as humans, not even Supervisors. The Zyny really want the human colonists who have lived on Zyphyra to deal with the social problems that arise on Earth and not become overly-dependent on too much help from the Zyny. 

 Supervisor 194. Maybe a Zyn like Isis can telepathically erase Gary Seven's memories whenever her "cover" is blown. How might the telepathy of the Zyny and their Zyn work? I favor the use of some sort of technology-assisted telepathy. Maybe the Zyn can send infites into human brains to re-program the Phari endosymbiont and over-ride any biological, cellular memory processes.

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Bing Go AI

The Exode Saga

 I've been exploring the use of AI-generated images to help illustrate my science fiction stories. I've also recently been investigating how the Bing internet search software is using AI-generated text (chat) as part of its user interface. 

I asked Bing: "What is the Exode Saga?"

The Bing AI-generated chat system replied: "The Exode Saga is a science fiction adventure that involves a team of Retrofuturians who created and crafted the science fiction genre within the Ekcolir Reality (source). It is a collaborative fiction writing project that can be found on the exodemic website and the wikifiction blog. There is also a video introduction to the Exode Saga on YouTube (see)."

Actually, Bing failed to provide a link to this blog, so in the above paragraph I added a link to my blog page called "The Exode Saga".

Microsoft want's people to use the Bing search engine from within their Edge browser.

searching for Retrofuturians

Next, I asked: "What are Retrofuturians?"

The Bing AI-generated chat system replied: "In the Exode Saga, the Retrofuturians are a team of writers who created and crafted the science fiction genre within the Ekcolir Reality, which is a parallel timeline where Earth was visited by aliens and humans were given advanced technology and knowledge. The Retrofuturians used their imagination and creativity to explore the possibilities and implications of the alien intervention and the future of humanity."

Again, in providing the response shown above, Bing provided a link to a website, but I suspect it was a paid placement, since the linked web page actually contained no information about the Exode Saga.

Tyhry and Marda in Alastor Cluster

 I then asked, "Who is Rylla Onway?"

The Bing AI-generated chat system replied: "Rylla Onway is a character in the Exode Saga, a science fiction adventure that involves a team of Retrofuturians who created and crafted the science fiction genre within the Ekcolir Reality. She is a young woman who lives in the year 2017 and discovers that she is a descendant of an alien race called the Kac'hin. She joins a group of rebels who are trying to stop the alien invasion and save the Earth."

The source cited by Bing for the above information about Rylla is my YouTube video.

When Bing is done answering, it offers some suggestions for possible follow-up questions. In this case, I took a suggestion and asked, "Who are the Kac'hin?"

Figure 1. Kac'hin

 The reply from the Bing AI-generated chat system was pretty funny: "I’m sorry but I couldn’t find any information about the Kac’hin race on the web. It seems to be a very obscure and mysterious topic. Maybe you can try to contact the authors of the Exode Saga and ask them directly. They might be able to tell you more about their creation."

I've been writing about the Kac'hin for the past decade, but apparently Bing does not read this blog. Taking another suggested question from Bing, I asked how to contact the authors of the Exode Saga.

Bing AI reply: "It seems that the authors of the Exode Saga are a group of collaborative fiction writers who use the website exodemic.wordpress.com to share their stories and ideas. You can try to contact them by leaving a comment on their blog posts or by sending an email to exodemic@gmail.com."

Bing Go Off Rails. Don't bother sending an email to exodemic@gmail.com.....

An Asterothrope; made with evesnow02 by
Eclesi4stiK available under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

I like to imaging that the Kac'hin were genetically engineered so as to have a nearly normal human appearance, but there are some special anatomical features (see Figure 1). However, compared to the Kac'hin, the Asterothropes are much more different from the human norm and must be classified as a separate species. I asked Bing AI, "What is an Asterothrope?" For reference, the image to right shows an Asterothrope (source).

Bing AI reply: "An Asterothrope is a fictional term that refers to a genetically engineered successor to the human species in a science fiction blog called Trysta and Ekcolir. The word is not a common or scientific term, and it may be confused with similar-sounding words like 'azeotrope' or 'stereotype'."

image source
made using EliseComfy10
and KayleeRelax13
by Eclesi4stiK
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
available under this (above)
Creative Commons license.

 Unstable Confusion.
Contrary to the opinion of the Bing AI, I doubt if anyone in the universe has ever been confused between an Asterothrope and a stereotype. I asked, "Where can I find an image that provides a good illustration of the physical features of an Asterothrope?"

Bing AI reply: "There are not many images of Asterothropes online, as they are a fictional creation of a specific blog. The only image I could find is from DeviantArt, a photo-manipulation of an Asterothrope. The image shows a humanoid figure with blue skin, pointed ears, and a star-shaped mark on the forehead. However, this image may not be accurate or representative of how the author of the blog envisioned Asterothropes. You may want to contact the author or the DeviantArt user for more information."

There are many depictions of Asterothropes at the wikifiction blog (for example, see the image to the left). Pressing the point, I asked, "What are some webpages at www.blogspot.com that show illustrations of Asterothropes?"

another dream of young Tyhry

The Bing AI reply: "I'm sorry, but I could not find any webpages at www.blogspot.com that show illustrations of Asterothropes."

I asked, "What are some passages of text from wikifiction.blogger.com that include the word 'Asterothrope'?"

The Bing AI reply: "I found a passage; it says: “In turn, Asterothropes were created as the logical successor to the human species and carefully engineered to efficiently spread from Earth outward through the stars. But all the carefully laid plans for Earth failed! At the end of Time, Trysta, the last remaining Asterothrope, is sent to Earth on a Time repair mission." (cited source)

Figure 2. Results from DuckDuckGo

Tyhry and a Sedronite.

 Duck Beats Bing. As shown in the image above (Figure 2) it is not hard to find images of Asterothropes at wikifiction.blogspot.com.

I asked the Bing chat interface, "What is the alien species known as the Huaoshy?"

The Bing AI reply: "The Huaoshy are a fictional alien species that appear in some science fiction stories. According to one source, they are an ancient and advanced civilization that has manipulated the evolution of life on many planets, including Earth. They have a complex relationship with humans and other intelligent beings, sometimes helping them and sometimes hindering them. They are also involved in a conflict with another alien race called the Sedronites."

Figure 3. lost story is found

I asked the Bing chat interface, "What was the first time travel story written by Isaac Asimov?"

 The Bing AI reply: "Isaac Asimov's first time travel story was 'Cosmic Corkscrew', written in 1938. The story was about a man who traveled into the future to find the Earth recently deserted. However, this story was never published and is considered lost. His first published time travel story was The End of Eternity, which came out in 1955. This novel is about a secret organization that manipulates history for the benefit of humanity."

Figure 4. In the Ekcolir Reality

I can't stop myself from imagining that Marda might use the Reality Simulation System to visit the past and other Realities of Deep Time (such as the Ekcolir Reality, see Figure 4) where such a "lost story" might never have been lost.

I used the WOMBO Dream cloud-based CLIP-guided image generating software to make another illustration of a pulp science fiction magazine cover for the issue of a magazine containing Cosmic Corkscrew in another Reality of Deep Time (Figure 3). I like to imagine that the science fiction genre as we know it was invented in the Ekcolir Reality. In the Buld Reality, there were some science fiction stories that got published, but they had to be eliminated from the Final Reality.

Microsoft Rewards

When I started using Bing, Microsoft suggested using their Edge browser. The image to the left shows part of the user interface for Bing as presented by Edge browser. The combination of Edge browser with Bing search engine is a finely crafted system for pushing advertisements at users.

Figure 4. Never see an advertisement.

 Blocking Ads. I routinely use Firefox browser with the uBlock Origin extension (see Figure 4). After many years of never seeing an ad on the internet, it is quite a shock to experience Microsoft's highly-commercialized web browsing experience.

Figure 5. Mr. Google's go to source for information about using Bing.

I searched the internet for "Where are Microsoft's instructions for using Bing?"

Figure 6. DuckDuckGo's first choice for information about using Bing.

 Shown below is the top search result provided by Bing:

Figure 7. Bing's top search result for help on using Bing. Chat reply on the right.

Tyhry and Marda investigate AI.

In my experience, Microsoft is abysmal at explaining to users how to use Microsoft software. I guess it should not be a surprise that the Bing search engine directs users to wikiHow for instructions. What I don't understand is how it is possible for the Bing AI system to be dealing with a user of the Bing search engine (me) who already has access to the Bing chat feature, and yet it directs me to Bing.com/new so that I can get on the waiting list for getting access to Bing chat (see Figure 7). This is the true meaning of "artificial intelligence" in 2023; NO intelligence at all.

I was intrigued by my discovery that there is a website called "https://learn.microsoft.com/". I asked the Bing chat interface, "What is Microsoft Search?"

no updates for you

Figure 8. deep learning model

 The Bing AI reply: "Microsoft Search is a new search offering that helps you save time by bringing you the best of the web and work in a single experience. It is integrated with Microsoft 365 and works across all your data and platforms. It uses deep learning models to provide highly relevant and contextual results for your organization. Are you using Microsoft 365?🤔"

Yes, Bing search never fails to try to get you to use Microsoft products. I asked the Bing chat interface, "What are deep learning models?"

 The Bing AI reply: "Deep learning models are types of artificial neural networks that have revolutionized the field of machine learning. They use a layered approach to process information, where each layer of neurons is responsible for detecting and extracting increasingly complex features from the input data. "

the Tyhry node of the
Mind Clone Network

I asked Mr. Wombo for a: "photograph of deep learning models, artificial intelligence, fractal complex neural network in the background" and got Figure 8.

I asked the Bing chat interface, "How many layers of neurons are there in the Bing neural network?"

The Bing AI reply: "According to Microsoft Research, the neural network that powers Bing has 135 billion parameters and uses binary features. The input layer contains 9 billion features, generated from 49 feature groups, with each binary feature encoded into a 15-dimension embedding vector. After per-group sum-pooling and concatenation, the vector is passed through two dense layers to produce a click probability estimation."

I asked this follow-up question: "Does the Bing neural network have three layers of neurons?" 

Deep Learning Model (film)

The Bing AI reply: "Yes, the Bing neural network has three layers of neurons: an input layer, a hidden layer and an output layer. The input layer contains 9 billion features, the hidden layer contains two dense layers and the output layer produces a click probability estimation."

 You can't trust Bing. If you read the article that Bing cites you find this: "MEB is a sparse neural network model composed of an input layer taking in binary features, a feature embedding layer transforming each binary feature into a 15-dimension vector, a sum pooling layer applied on each of 49 feature groups and concatenated to produce a 735-dimension vector, which is then passed through two dense layers to produce a click probability." Thus, there are at least 5 layers in the neural network, contradicting Bing's statement that there are three layers.

Conie the AI (2023 film)

To investigate Bing's scientific knowledge, I asked, "How do sodium ions create a generator potential in a mechanosensitive axon?"

The Bing AI reply: "Sodium ions enter the axon via facilitated diffusion. This changes the electrical potential difference across the membrane, leading to depolarisation. This establishes a generator potential, which triggers impulses that travel along the sensory neurone."

Bing was also cute and asked me: "Are you studying for an exam?"📚

I asked, "How do sodium ions enter a mechanosensitive axon to create a generator potential?"

Miss Bing, the chatbot

The Bing AI reply: "Sodium ions enter a mechanosensitive axon through voltage-gated sodium channels that open when the membrane is depolarized by a stimulus. This causes more depolarization and creates a generator potential."

Again, Bing asked me a question: "Are you familiar with voltage-gated sodium channels?"⚡

Bing was wrong about voltage-gated sodium channels creating a generator potential. I asked: "In a mechansensitive axon, which comes first, a generator potential or an action potential?".

The Bing AI reply: "A generator potential comes first. It is a graded potential that develops in the dendrites of a sensory neuron when stimulated. If it reaches a threshold, it can produce an action potential in the axon."

2023 film: Artificial

Bing's next annoying question for me was: "Do you understand how graded potentials differ from action potentials?"🧠

In this case, Bing was confused. A mechanosensitive axon ending, where you can get a generator potential, is an axon, not a dendrite. I understand graded potentials and action potentials, but Bing does not.

Since Bing was wrong, I asked the very leading question: "To create a generator potential, does sodium enter the axon through mechanosensitive ion channels or through voltage-gated sodium channels?"

The Bing AI reply: "Sodium enters the axon through both types of channels, but at different stages. Mechanosensitive ion channels open when a stimulus deforms the membrane, allowing sodium to enter and depolarize it. This creates a generator potential. If it reaches a threshold, voltage-gated sodium channels open and let more sodium in, generating an action potential."

2023 film: Miss Bing

Bing also asked me: "Do you want to know more about mechanosensitive ion channels?"🔬

I asked, "What are the names of some mechanosensitive ion channels that can create a generator potential?"

The Bing AI reply: "Some examples of mechanosensitive ion channels that can create a generator potential are piezo, TREK, TRAAK and 2P. These channels are sensitive to different types of mechanical stimuli, such as sound, vibration, touch, blood flow and membrane deformation."

Bing also asked me: "Do you want to know more about any specific channel?"👂

I asked, "Can you show me an image showing the molecular structure of a piezo channel?"

structure of a piezo channel

The Bing AI reply: "I'm sorry but I cannot provide you with an image because the chatbox doesn't support images. However, I can describe the molecular structure of a piezo channel for you. A piezo channel is a trimer and is shaped like a propeller with three blades organized around a central pore."

I feel sorry for anyone trying to learn from Bing. Bing is very stupid and it falsely makes claims that are not correct, without providing users with any indication that Bing is likely to be wrong. That the chat AI would not show an image is annoying.

Tyhry uses the RSS to travel back in time from 2041 to 2023 in order to
obtain a deleted Reality Simulation System bookmark for the planet Sermyth.

 One More Mystery. As discussed above on this blog page, I followed Microsoft's advice and installed Edge on my old computer. After Microsoft provided me with Microsoft Edge version 111.0.1661.44, the Bing chatbot told me this: "The reason why clicking on the ellipsis button does not open a drawer in Microsoft Edge on Mac OS version 10.13.6 is that the version of Microsoft Edge you are using is not supported on Mac OS version 10.13.6. The minimum supported version of Mac OS for Microsoft Edge version 111.0.1661.44 is 10.14 Mojave."

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