Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 22, 2026
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xperiment is complete. Good, good. Now there might be a difference on the browser version versus the app. I don't know about that yet. Well, let me tell you about my AI experience yesterday. If you were like me, and I like to think everybody is, you probably said to yourself sometime in the last year or so, I should spend some time working with AI just so I don't get left behind. Anybody say that…

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you. It talks to you without being asked and tells you what it's doing, and it tells you it's going to try a new way to solve your problem. It's just your brain just goes, what? What am I dealing with? It's awesome.

Now I did not succeed, but I believe I learned enough yesterday that in a very short time I could create a GPT that would look at a text file that has all of my every Dilbert comic ever said, and then separately it can find that Dilbert comic in a different way, and it can take those two pieces of knowledge and marry them and become a search engine for any Dilbert topic. So maybe by the end of today, just by talking to AI, I'll be able to announce that there's a GPT that you'd have to have access to the app, I guess, that you could do a search, or I could do a search, or I could hire somebody to do a search for you if you wanted to reprint that sort of thing. But that's how easy it was just talking to it. But you have to get past the interface glitches first.

Well, Iceland is in a state of emergency, at least part of it. I guess there's a big-ass volcano there that has

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been so active they've had 1,400 earthquakes in 24 hours, a number which is surely bigger now since I read the post on it. And they're at least, it looks like they've told one town to completely leave. So there's one town that's right in the death area, but it looks like they have time, so it looks like they're going to get out. But they're going to lose their homes. So it looks like an entire tow…

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