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Belinda, 10, is already comfortable interacting with artificial intelligence.
If Siri had any feelings she would know she was being affectionately teased. When 10-year-old Belinda and her friends have a play date they sometimes pepper Siri with questions in the hope she will say something random and make them laugh. “Do a rap,” they urge Siri. “Tell us a bedtime story.” “The stories and raps are very funny, because they don’t make sense,” Belinda says. “So it’s like a duck went up to a store, the duck came back from the store, you went to school the next day and stuff like that.”
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District nurse Heidi Smith smashed her grey Ford into a brick wall near her home
She then tried to drive away from the scene in Kingscote, Bristol last December
Alcohol level was almost beyond the scale, of sentencing guidelines, judge says
Mother-of-two admitted drink driving and must perform 300 hours unpaid work
She was also banned from driving for three years and ordered to pay £200
Nurse who crashed while drunk could be retrained to give Covid vaccine jabs
She blew a “very very high reading, almost beyond the scale of our guidelines”, said the judge
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A Yate nurse crashed her car while at more than four times the alcohol limit.
Mum-of-two Heidi Smith, of Kingscote, ploughed her grey Ford into a brick wall metres from her home at 5.50pm on December 14.
The 38-year-old, a member of Yate’s district nursing team, had 142mcg of alcohol in 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35mcg.
Bristol Magistrates’ Court heard on Tuesday (February 16) how the future of Smith’s job is uncertain. She has been outsourced to a private firm but could be retrained to administer coronavirus vaccines.
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