Old age is a curse, as you get older you will never be as fit as you were in your twenties, but you need to have the right frame of mind in my opinion. You only have to look at the President of the United States of America, to see someone later in life who is running the country, and still has time for golf, he has the right frame of mind. There are those that tend to only mix with older people of a similar age, but age should not restrict anyone regarding the friends they make, age does not matter in my opinion. Sadly I lost a good friend last December, passed away at home from pneumonia, and they were young, only in their early fifties. We never know when our time is up, and it's good that we don't, best to enjoy life as much as you can, while you can.

Try the 'Help' forum below.

http://mingle2.com/forum/forum/7

Yardbirds, The.

Thanks for that. Finding a partner is not easy, and I agree, providing you find them attractive is what matters, attractiveness is not necessarily just physical but is in their character, personality, their outlook on life, whereabouts they are in life, and where they see themselves going in life. The older you are, the more difficult the task in my opinion, many more things to consider, and when you are reasonably happy in your life, you can find the person you are looking for is very difficult to find.

Vandellas, The.

Queen.

I agree you do need a good idea of the type of person you believe would be right for you. I don't believe it needs to be written in stone, when you do meet someone it is only dating for sometime that you will begin to know if they are the right one for you. Having too many preconceived ideas of what you believe is right for you may result in dismissing someone who would have been ideal. It may be worth more thinking about the type of person you definitely don't want, and date those outside of that list, before deciding whether they are right for you. At the end of the day it is the compatibility of both parties, among other things, and an ability to compromise.

If it is for someone already in a relationship with someone else, it may cause nothing but heartache and pain.

Sadiq Khan.

Maybe it's The Matrix.

Oasis.

Lindisfarne.

Thanks Zee, you have given us all something to think about, fully understand why you chose not to take up any AI training work, but as in the video, many already in work have no option. Again I believe it is going to take governments to take responsibility on how this all going to work out.

Here in the UK it was interesting to hear on a recent tv news item, that even when driverless cars are introduced, there will be the choice of requesting a taxi with a human driver, because not everyone is happy to use a driverless taxi.

INXS.

That is good news Zee and I agree we all need to keep an eye on this, and make our concerns known to our politicians.

Fleetwood Mac.

Zee, this looks positive.

UK-Canada renewed AI security partnership
The United Kingdom and Canada announce a renewed AI security partnership

From:
Cabinet Office and The Rt Hon Kanishka Narayan MP. Minister of State (Minister for Artificial Intelligence)
Published:
13 October 2026

Thanks Zee. Seems more recent activity by the UK government in the recent appointment of a specific AI Minister.
This is an Interesting read, and good to see the focus on security of these advancing AI systems.

http://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-canada-renewed-ai-security-partnership

You are right, we should all be very concerned and keep an eye on what is happening in the AI industry.

This doesn't look so good.

We should all be remembering what happened in the 'Terminator 2: Judgement day' film, which is referred to in the book 'Thinking Machines'.
Extract from the book.

"In that movie we, the audience, are informed that the supercomputer 'Skynet' becomes 'self-aware' at exactly 2.14am Eastern time on the 4th August 1997. At 2.13am that day, computer users were presumably marvelling at the better-than-average
accuracy of their search engine results or the superior strategies employed by the AI-controlled enemies in 'Command and conquer:
Red Alert. (hey, this was 1997!). At 2.15am - KA-BOOM! Life as they knew it was over."


Interesting to note what happened in the film, happened very quickly, machines move quicker than humans, the nuclear war caused by Skynet in the film wiped out almost all of humanity.

Duran Duran.

Thanks Zee. Certainly very concerning on where this is all going to end up. Here in the UK we have an AI Minister, responsible for monitoring developments in the industry, but he has no control on what is happening outside of the UK. It is time we started to ask more questions, I'm afraid like most people outside the industry, trying to understand, to make sense of all this is not easy. It seems it is an industry very difficult to inspect, scrutinise in every detail, to determine if sufficient safety is in place, it is unlike the nuclear industry for example. I think you are absolutely right, more of us do need to raise our own concerns with politicians, and to know what they can do, and what they are doing about it.

XTC.