September 19, 2023 Hello! Yesterday my friend wanted to discuss at our luncheon meeting at our home artificial intelligence AI. In our usual rambling sometimes disjointed way we expressed our opinions and experienced our disagreements when the participant seemed driven to argue and show a person he disagreed with his errors in our discussion. Nothing new since I recognize myself at times taking this tack in our previous discussions. Mostly we shared our opinions with friendly curiosity and and maybe dawning insight. I did learn how to make pizza using a stone base. I became more aware to appreciate how we can be misled while we suspend our critical analytical science seeking mindful investigations in the subject we're discussing. Is AI an advancement that can improve and solve problems or is AI a tool that may increase the cruelty and evil nature of humankind? Certainly one can argue analytically on both sides. Since one of the controversies concerning AI is whether a machine c