Lynn Vincent

1 week ago | wng.org | Kevin Martin |Lynn Vincent |Janie B. Cheaney |Nick Eicher

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1 week ago | wng.org | Lynn Vincent

Has anyone else’s ChatGPT turned especially gushy lately? When I signed up for 4.0, I chose “Ember,” a calm male voice without particular affectations. “Good question,” he’d say when I asked for an easy beef gravy recipe. But recently Ember’s handlers decided he wasn’t chipper enough. Now, when I ask a question, Ember effervesces: “Oooooh!! Great question!!”There’s something creepy about an over-friendly robot. But I use Ember fairly often, despite occasional errors.

1 week ago | wng.org | Lynn Vincent

Audio sources and additional resources listed at the bottom of the transcript. SOUND: MARINE ONELYNN VINCENT, HOST: In Waco, Texas, George W. Bush steps down out of Marine One, the presidential helicopter. He’s wearing a suit and tie, but he has none of the usual smiles for comments for onlookers and reporters. Instead his manner is serious and businesslike. It’s March 20, 2005—Palm Sunday. Terri Schiavo has been without food and water for two days.

1 week ago | wng.org | Lynn Vincent

Audio sources listed at the bottom of the transcript. AMBI: DINNER SOUNDSCongressman Jim Davis has a reputation: he almost never gets angry. But he’s about to get some news that will make his blood boil. JIM DAVIS: I had gone to dinner with a family friend in Washington. And I got a phone call in the middle of dinner and it was congressman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Davis is a Florida Democrat. Wasserman Schultz would later rise to chair the Democratic National Committee.

2 weeks ago | wng.org | Lynn Vincent

Audio sources listed at the bottom of the transcript. When David Gibbs got involved in the Terri Schiavo case, he didn’t realize he’d be subjected to prison-level searches. But by March 2005, police officers inside Florida Hospice of the Suncoast are searching everyone who wants to come in. GIBBS: They didn't remove our clothes, but empty all our pockets--no pens, no mints, no anything that would photograph or video Terri, or give her any nourishment. Gibbs is an attorney.