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Fly into Hong Kong and spend a few days discovering its diverse attractions from shopping in bustling Kowloon to hiking along one of the islands' well-marked lush trails. Eat dim sum downtown and head up Victoria Peak for an after-dinner drink to remember. Take a boat or a train to Guangzhou and sample yet more Cantonese delights, along with some fine colonial architecture, maybe stopping off in ... Read more

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To raise awareness of how frightening AI is, I am publishing an entire book of poetry written by artificial intelligence.The shocking part is that these poems are pretty good, fun to listen to, and AI has some crazy opinions.In this book, I provide AI 1) topics for poetry 2) analysis and commentary of the poetry.Behold the entertaining terror of poetry by GPT-3, an OpenAI large-scale language
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