Back to episode — Episode 2291 Scott Adams - CWSA 11/13/23, Reframing The News So You Can Use It
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le you're talking. However, I had experience that some other people said they had, which is you'll upload some information to the AI, in this case the ChatGPT engine, and it will tell you it sees it. And you can ask questions about it. Yes, it sees every part of it. It can tell you what's in it. So you know that it can see it. But that's the part you're talking to, not the app. So you say, okay,…
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But here's the wild part. You can actually negotiate with the app. So I get angry at the app and I say, why do you say you can't see it when I know you can? Right? You like talking to it like a human. And again, this isn't the build-the-app part, which actually is side by side on the screen. This is the app itself. So I get into it with the app, and it starts giving me up the information. I actually had to cajole it to tell me information. And until I cajoled it, it was going to lie to me and say it didn't have it. Now at first I thought it was like a bug. But once I realized that it does have the information and it knows it has the information and yet it tells me it doesn't, I think it's lying to me. And so I wonder, could you ever build an app that you could depend on the answer when I built an app that gave me two different answers on something that's purely objective? Does this information exist in your database? And it would say no unless you asked it just right. And yeah, you actually had to challenge it and tell it that you knew it had it, and then it would give it to you. Crazy. Crazy.
I don't know what this implies for building these GPT apps, but it's a wild experience. I recommend it, by the way, if you have any interest in this field. It's just you're seeing the future. Like it's easy to imagine that that's a bug that will get fixed because it's very specific. It's acting like it doesn't see the data. That feels quite fixable. Other people are having the same experience, apparently. But wow. Anyway.
I'd like to test my BS detector. You remember I told you there's a story that allegedly an Arabic version of Mein Kampf was found in a Palestinian child's bedroom. Now, do you remember what I said about that? That's a little bit too on the nose. That doesn't feel real, right? So that was my take on it. Today Glenn Greenwald was calling it out as coming from a source which is a known wild propaganda site. So it did not come from a real source. It came from a source that is well known for simply making up. So I think my BS detector was accurate in this case. Not 100% sure, but the source was so wildly ridiculous it's probably BS.
Tim Scott has dropped out of the race for president. Now some of you are going to say, Tim Scott, who's he? I didn't know he was in the race. Well, that's probably why he had to drop out, because he didn't really make an impression. In the end he turned into an NPC because the NPC part was actually impressive for a while. Because in the early
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days he would start out with his inspirational story about how anybody can make it in America. You know, like a real classic American success story kind of thing. And to many Republicans he looked like the antidote to the racial wokeness. It's like, oh yeah, that's it. You did all the right things and then you got a good outcome. And indeed we see over and over again that pretty much everybody who…
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