Introduction

Hosts:

MrX

Dave

Morriss

We recorded this on Saturday May 20th 2023. We met in

person again, and as before first visited the pub called The

Steading where we had lunch. Then we adjourned to Dave’s Citroen

car (Studio C) in the car park, and recorded a chat.

The region where we met is close to a village called

Hillend, which led to the show title.

Topics discussed

ChatGPT:

MrX did two shows in May using ChatGPT. He has used it more than

Dave has.

MrX has an iPhone and can use ChatGPT from it. He uses it as a

source of information when out and about. For instance, to find out

about the history of Musselburgh

Harbour.

MrX has also used ChatGPT to write experimental Python scripts.

There is a TED

talk by Greg Brockman, the inventor of ChatGPT.

Discussion of the Call

Annie app

ELIZA the program

that was written in the 1960s and simulated conversation well enough to

convince people.

Audacity/Tenacity audio editors:

Web sites: Audacity

and Tenacity.

Audacity

Wikipedia page

MrX and Dave have both used Audacity for several years.

Audacity was forked after it was taken over by Muse Group, and Tenacity was developed.

However, it doesn’t seem that there have been any releases on Tenacity

to date.

The most recent versions of Audacity have contained changes - in

particular the way the audio project is stored has changed. Instead of a

directory filled with various files there is now a single project file

with the extension .aup3 which is a SQLite database. This

was changed in March 2021 for Version 3.0.

Previously Audacity stored the project as a file called

<project>.aup and a directory called

<project>_data/ containing sub-directories and

files.

MrX reports changes in the way multiple tracks are handled. Dave

finds that the horizontal scrollbar has disappeared (which seems to be a

bug).

Dr John Campbell:

YouTube

channel

During the COVID-19 epidemic the channel contained a lot of

information about the SARS-CoV-2 virus, vaccines, disease, treatments,

etc, which seemed to be helpful and well researched.

At one point there was a lot of talk about Ivermectin as a drug that

could help with the disease, but although this received no support from

scientific research, it seemed to be receiving more and more exposure on

the channel.

From then on the quality of the content on the channel seemed to

deteriorate, and it no longer seems trustworthy.

Other sources have been critical, including Debunk

the Funk with Dr Wilson

The Doctor Who Exhibition:

Dave met with Andrew Conway and Andrew’s friend, and all went to the

exhibition held at the National Museum of Scotland.

The exhibition contained a lot of Doctor Who memorabilia, including

some original props.

MrX and the group that went to the exhibi