Court Painter, Press Attache A Hardon MacKay and all the unpaid studio interns are thrilled beyond words that Bing the Microsoft search engine powered by new super Artificial Intelligence has at last chosen our Court Painter as the #1 choice in it’s search thingy!

Court Painter is not making this up! AI through it’s wisdom has done the right thing and thrust our Court Painter to the top of list.

Many of the glorious images depicting the handiwork by Court Painter of past political and celebrity figure commissions are there for the whole world to see and we can be assured that at least half a dozen leading art experts and hobbyists will seek out the subject of “court painter” for research purposes within the next 5 years.

Microsoft on Tuesday added a new artificial intelligence-powered capability to its search slate: AI-generated visuals.

The new tool, powered by OpenAI’s DALL-E, will allow users to generate images using their own words, such as asking for pictures of “court painter,” the company explained in a press release.

The feature, called “Bing Image Creator,” will be available to Bing and Microsoft Edge users in preview. It will first roll out in the search engine’s “Creative Mode.” Eventually, it’ll become fully integrated into the Bing chat experience, the company added.

The inside story of the how

The untold story of the when

The threat of the where

The survival of the why

• Who was involved?
• What happened?
• When did it happen?
• Where did it happen?
• Why did it happen?
• How did it happen?
• Which happening happened? 
• Wherefore art thou Art?

Court Painter once again dives deep in the archives to try to illustrate what all these words might allude to…place your bets!

GW Bush former US president & presently a self-described”simple painter”, undertook a new dramatic series of paintings to mark the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition 20 years ago. He is said to be challenged by this new series in contrast to his celebrity portrait & sundry collection. 

Court Painter thought Artificial Intelligence was too long for viewers to read so he went with AI

Pulled from GPT-4 ‘s introduction text

• We’ve created GPT-4, the latest milestone in OpenAI’s effort in scaling up deep learning. GPT-4 is a large multimodal model (accepting image and text inputs, emitting text outputs) that, while less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks.
• Limitations
• Despite its capabilities, GPT-4 has similar limitations as earlier GPT models. Most importantly, it still is not fully reliable (it “hallucinates” facts and makes reasoning errors). Great care should be taken when using language model outputs, particularly in high-stakes contexts, with the exact protocol (such as human review, grounding with additional context, or avoiding high-stakes uses altogether) matching the needs of a specific use-case.

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The following excerpted from THE ATLANTIC DAILY article March 15/23

Don’t Be Misled by GPT-4’s Gift of Gab

Open AI’s new language program reveals a flaw in society’s understanding of “smart.”By Kelli María Korducki

“It’s also worth remembering that the internet is a strange and often sinister place, and its darkest crevasses contain some of the raw material that’s training GPT-4 and similar AI tools.”

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As Matteo Wong detailed:

Microsoft’s original chatbot, named Tay and released in 2016, became misogynistic and racist, and was quickly discontinued. Last year, Meta’s BlenderBot AI rehashed anti-Semitic conspiracies, and soon after that, the company’s Galactica—a model intended to assist in writing scientific papers—was found to be prejudiced and prone to inventing information (Meta took it down within three days). GPT-2 displayed bias against women, queer people, and other demographic groups; GPT-3 said racist and sexist things; and ChatGPT was accused of making similarly toxic comments. OpenAI tried and failed to fix the problem each time. New Bing, which runs a version of GPT-4, has written its own share of disturbing and offensive text—teaching children ethnic slurs, promoting Nazi slogans, inventing scientific theories.

The Real Cost of America’s War Machine | The Problem With Jon Stewart | Apple TV+

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Court Painter takes no pleasure in painting these however he sells every one and has back orders!

Court Painter was witness to many encounters between The Donald & Stormy (as depicted in his many pictures) however never once saw anything out of line.”I would describe their relationship as Celebrity friends…maybe even bosom buddies, that’s all!

“As with all things between The Donald and the US justice system…they will never lay a hand on him!”

Trump Denies Affair With Stormy Daniels—As He Could Reportedly Face Criminal Charges In Hush-Money Scheme

Trump said he “did absolutely nothing wrong” and denied having an affair with Stormy Daniels, calling the Manhattan District Attorney’s investigation into his role in the $130,000 payment made to her in exchange for silence about their alleged affair “a political Witch-Hunt.”

“I did absolutely nothing wrong, I never had an affair with Stormy Daniels, nor would I have wanted to have an affair with Stormy Daniels,” Mr. Trump , who is running for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, wrote on Truth Social.

To celebrate the most recent dust up between The Donald, the US justice system and the ever vivacious & veracious Ms. Daniels; Court Painter has opened his archives with images of much happier times.

MPs demand apology from Conservative MP over ‘constant, demeaning’ remarks to Minister Joly

Multiple MPs who are members of the Procedure and House Affairs Committee demanded an apology from Alberta Conservative MP Michael Cooper after a comment he made Thursday about Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly’s toughness.

Liberal and NDP MPs are calling out Conservative MP Michael Cooper over what they described as a “shameful” and “completely unacceptable” comment he made to Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly during a hearing on foreign interference.

Michael J. Cooper, Conservative MP represents the riding of St. Albert—Edmonton, Alberta.

The least weasel (Mustela nivalis), little weasel, common weasel, or simply weasel is the smallest member of the genus Mustela, family Mustelidae and order Carnivora

With apologies to the weasel family!

“You’ve talked tough. You’ve talked tough with your Beijing counterpart, so you say. You even stared into his eyes, I’m sure he was very intimidated,” said Cooper in questioning Joly during a combative and intense meeting of the Procedure and House Affairs Committee (PROC) on Thursday.

Responding, Joly said: “Well, Mr. Cooper, you would know China because you went to China as a parliamentarian in the past. And so therefore, I think you would understand that when we fall into too much partisanship, we’re falling into China’s trap.”

Cooper did not apologize before the meeting ended. 

Con MP Cooper on the verge of a smirk

Court Painter relaxing in his new leisure suit.

Chinese President Xi Jinping reportedly has been silent on the goings on in the Great Dominion, so far!

 The Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre suggested to reporters that security officials have been leaking allegations about election interference to the media because they “must be very worried about how the prime minister is working against the interests of his own country and his own people.”

“And so they are so concerned about how the prime minister is acting against Canada’s interest and in favour of a foreign dictatorship’s interests, that they are actually releasing this information publicly,” he said Tuesday.

Prime Minister Trudeau in Wednesday’s question period said it was “despicable” for an MP to question the loyalty of another member of Parliament.

“To suggest that anyone in this house isn’t devoted to serving Canadians, and keeping those who serve Canada in dangerous positions safe, is quite disgusting,” he said Wednesday during a rowdy exchange with the opposition.

The Conservative leader responded that “no drama lesson” would distract him from his questions and, again, pushed for more information about the alleged funding.

The Prime Minister suggested a recently announced special rapporteur and two intelligence agencies are better placed to look into what kind of information was shared with whom.

Excerpted from CBC news report March 8/23

Court Painter cranked out another one in an attempt to capture the moment.

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Court Painter has bouts of doubt and bouts of gout. This is a moment of confluence. To mark this occasion, a deep random dive into the full colour archives will suffice to perhaps ease the passage to future productivity for Court Painter in these times of doubt & gout, getting & spending and laying waste.

The World Is Too Much with Us

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon,
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers,
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not. —Great God! I’d rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.

English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. 

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the Evergreen industry of warfare…

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War Bucks UPDATE on Evergreen Industry of Warfare

Global News source: February 25,2023

Canada will be purchasing additional tanks to replace the ones being sent to Ukraine , Defence Minister Anita Anand said. Canada’s contributions to Ukraine’s war effort have come amid concerns about the Canadian Armed Forces’ capacities here at home.“I am always concerned to make sure that the Canadian Armed Forces have what they need to serve and protect this incredible country,” Anand said,

“What that means is we are going to be purchasing additional tanks for the Canadian Armed Forces.”

SIPRI for the media

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Arms sales of SIPRI Top 100 arms companies grow despite supply chain challenges

5 December 2022

(Stockholm, 5 December 2022) Sales of arms and military services by the 100 largest companies in the industry reached $592 billion in 2021, a 1.9 per cent increase compared with 2020 in real terms. This is according to new data released today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

The increase marked the seventh consecutive year of rising global arms sales. However, while the rate of growth in 2020–21 was higher than in 2019–20 (1.1 per cent), it was still below the average for the four years leading up to the Covid-19 pandemic (3.7 per cent).

Supply chain issues seen in 2021 likely to worsen due to Ukraine war 

US companies dominate the Top 100, but sales decline

Europe: Aerospace sales fall, shipbuilding rises

Chinese companies drive rapid growth in Asian arms sales

Other notable developments 

• Six Russian companies are included in the Top 100 for 2021. Their arms sales totalled $17.8 billion—an increase of only 0.4 per cent over 2020. There were signs that stagnation was widespread across the Russian arms industry.
• The five Top 100 companies based in the Middle East generated $15.0 billion in arms sales in 2021. This was a 6.5 per cent increase compared with 2020, the fastest pace of growth of all regions represented in the Top 100. 
• The aggregated arms sales of the four Top 100 companies based in Japan was $9.0 billion, a decline of 1.4 per cent compared with 2020.
• This is the first year in which a Taiwanese firm appears in the Top 100. NCSIST (ranked 60th), which specializes in missiles and military electronics, recorded arms sales of $2.0 billion in 2021.
• Private equity companies are becoming more active in the arms industry, particularly in the USA. This could affect the transparency of arms sales data, due to less stringent financial reporting requirements compared with public companies.