National AI Day and New Gravatar

Did you know there is a National AI Day? I didn’t until I checked what July 16th list was. Artificial Intelligence is not new, it was first started in 1950 by Alan Turing when I was a year old! He asked if machines could think for itself and in 1952 Arthur Samuel proved that machines could learn from their mistakes. National AI Day made it’s debut on the National Calendar Day in 2025 and now it’s everywhere.

I think I’m too old to worry about this, I still like to come up with my own writing ideas and while they may not be perfect, they are mine. Lia knows more about AI than I do! She is a wiz at creating a regular photograph into a cartoon, anime or design.

These are a few of the photographs that Lia edited using ChatGPT. She did them so fast I couldn’t keep up with how she was doing it. LOL

New Gravatar

While we’re on the topic of AI it’s also time for a new Gravatar for my blog. Lia was just a few years old when she joined in with me on The Martha Review. As she grows up, I like to change to Gravatar.

These are my last four gravatars when Lia was 3, 4, 6, and 7. Where has the time gone, she will turn 8 years old next month!

Again Lia was playing with ChatGPT and the first one is Cartoon and the other in Anime. Of the two I like the cartoon one better but there are certain places where I prefer a good old fashioned, non edited photograph and my Gravatar is one of them.

So this will be our 2026 Gravatar and since Lia and Snowball both have a big part of blogging I have to include them!