ChatGPT is our new go-to source

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In our state, Western Australia, we belong to several Facebook sites. One is Lost Cuballing and another Lost Narrogin. We had our farm near Cuballing and recently a woman posted saying her father had farmed near Lol Gray Soak which is in the Cuballing area. Narrogin is a bigger town where Vince grew up and where we both went to school. My father had often mentioned Lol Gray and I thought he had gone to school there. Vince wrote this and the woman asked about the school. Not having any other information, we went to ChatGPT, an AI site, which instantly came up with the opening and closing dates of the school, and some other relevant information. It mentioned a picnic area there and a plaque situated on the ruins of the old school building. We’ll be checking it out once we take off in our motor-home. We’ve found ChatGPT astonishingly useful and accurate the few times we’ve used it. It would have taken us a month of Sundays to come up with the information it gave us. I’ve just gone to ChatGPT again and it tells me Lol Gray emigrated from England in the early 1800s and worked as a shepherd and sandalwood cutter in the area. A soak is a natural water source. The photo is of my father’s class in his last year of school. The photo is of my father’s class in his last year of school. He is on the right at the back next to the teacher.