Things I learned lately 16 Feb

• Word on the street is that GPT-5 is starting its training phase now.
• Apparently GPT-4 can see right through your typos. Don’t even bother wasting time correcting them.
• If you order a replacement credit card from RBC online, the minute you execute the order, they disable your physical card. Thankfully you are warned of this, but not very aggressively. If you call their customer service number and order a replacement card, they let you use the original card until the replacement is activated. Considering that most seniors would always use the physical card and not an electronic wallet app, the online process is a bit ageist. Update: They lied. The card is dead.
• St-Hubert, a restaurant that sells barbecue chicken, got started in Montreal in 1951. In 1952, they started home delivery in a fleet of yellow Volkswagen Beetles. Swiss Chalet started in 1954 in Toronto, started by the son of the founder of Chalet BBQ of Montreal.
• A play bow is one of many unique canine behaviours and gestures dogs use to communicate. The play bow serves as an invitation to engage in playtime. It is a distinctive posture that a dog assumes by lowering their front end while keeping their rear end raised and is often accompanied by tail wagging.
• The makers of the old video game Command & Conquer remastered the game at a higher resolution and re-released it in 2020.
• Ruby Foo's Montreal started as a restaurant and later morphed into a hotel-restaurant à la Howard Johnson's. It is still running as a hotel. Ruby Foo’s actually started in Boston.
• Hertz also owns the Thrifty, Dollar, and Firefly car rental companies.