<p>What's left of a ~16th century alembic from the Veneto region. Alembics were used for distillation, most notoriously by alchemists to try (and fail) to turn lead into gold. Today we call such a distillation device an LLM chatbot. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Italy25" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Italy25</span></a></p>
