{"id":238,"date":"2024-12-23T03:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=238"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:41:48","slug":"i-asked-artificial-intelligence-what-is-special-about-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"I asked Artificial Intelligence &#8220;What is special about Christmas&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I asked Perplexity AI the question. And I asked the free version as well as the so-called Pro version (You can use the pro version four times a day even if you just have the free version). I find perplexity VERY helpful &#8211; it&#8217;s format is different than when you ask google a question. And it works beautifully on a smart phone. I am posting both versions of the very simple question above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the free one &#8211; note links throughout and below the basic answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"mb-md\">\n<div class=\"relative default font-sans text-base text-textMain dark:text-textMainDark selection:bg-super\/50 selection:text-textMain dark:selection:bg-superDuper\/10 dark:selection:text-superDark\">\n<div class=\"min-w-0 break-words [word-break:break-word]\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e860ddcf55200b-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e860ddcf55200b-500wi\" alt=\"Screenshot 2024-12-23 at 00-24-25 what is special about christmas\" title=\"Screenshot 2024-12-23 at 00-24-25 what is special about christmas\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here&#8217;s the Pro version. I find this version very useful for researching in many areas and am using it in my financial practice. Maybe I will post something re: a stock or ETF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"409\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e860ddcf5a200b-500wi-409x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11093\" title=\"Screenshot 2024-12-23 at 00-32-57 what is special about Christmas\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e860ddcf5a200b-500wi-409x1024.png 409w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e860ddcf5a200b-500wi-120x300.png 120w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/6a00d834525a2f69e202e860ddcf5a200b-500wi.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 409px) 100vw, 409px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I asked Perplexity AI the question. And I asked the free version as well as the so-called Pro version (You can use the pro version four times a day even if you just have the free version). I find perplexity VERY helpful &#8211; it&#8217;s format is different than when you ask google a question. And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11094,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/11094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}