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ly in a bubble. And let me tell you how bad my bubble is. I don't know any Democrats in person. No I'm sure I do because you my friend but I haven't seen him in a long time, right? And I'm trying to think the last time I had a meaningful conversation with a Democrat who wasn't actually so insane that I just backed off right away because you get the insanity thing right away. You know the TDS just…

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it be that the demand for the AI service is so big that they're having a processing problem? Could we be reaching some kind of computing temporary limit that's just making AI dumber? I saw people speculating about that. I feel like it might have some impact but I would think it would have more impact on the timing of the answer than the quality of the answer. But it could be that there's a processing problem that's making it dumber. I don't know. But I'll tell you my own experience. I keep telling myself I'm going to jump into AI and force myself to learn it and use it because for sure I'm going to be using it in the future. I just want to get a head start on it. Make sure I'm using all the tools in the best way. I can't find anything useful. Like I keep thinking oh I'm going to find a thing that works for what I do and then I'll just keep using the thing because it'll be so useful I can't not use it. You know like a smartphone. I have not found that yet. I've done quite a few things but I can't use it to look for information.

Well actually I think I'll just read you my Sunday comic today if you're not a subscriber you haven't seen it. But I handled this in a Dilbert comic that you can see on if you subscribe on the X platform or if you are on Locals so you can see it. So I'm just going to read it to you. It's Morak the preventer of information services and he's he comes into the room to talk to Dilbert. And Morak says I've been asked to ensure we have proper safeguards on the AI you were creating. So here I'm imagining that Dilbert is creating an AI for his company. All right so you want some safeguards. And Dilbert says such as. And Morak says well you don't want any sexual content or fake news. And Dilbert says right. And Morak says and you don't want AI to be a bigot. And Dilbert says obviously. And Morak says you don't want AI to have opinions and it has to stay away from facts too because it hallucinates. And Dilbert says good point. Morak says you also don't want it to get into politics, religion, socialism or capitalism. And then Dilbert says what's left? Just the weather and math. And Morak says weather and math are racist concepts. And Dilbert says I quit.

Now how far is that from reality? It's pretty close to reality isn't it? You can't use it for fiction because then you're a plagiarist. You can't use it for facts because it hallucinates. You can't use it for opinions because opinions are too provocative. So if you can't use it for fiction, facts or opinions what's left? The weather which you don't need it for or math that you don't need it for. I guess it's good for writing code. Yeah and good for translating also. Excellent for translating. I love the fact that we've actually invented a universal translator. Very Star Trek. One of t

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he things you'll be able to do with your someday when you have your Apple Vision Pro AR glasses you'll be able to watch somebody talk a different language and it will immediately show up as a transcript floating in front of you. How amazing is that? You could actually go to a foreign country and well you couldn't talk but you could understand what they were saying. But suppose you were hearing imp…

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