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artoon that has continued on, it's now called Dilbert Reborn and it's spicier than what you would be missing. And by the way, you can only subscribe on X. See my profile. And on the Locals platform you'll get the comic plus another comic called Real News and a bunch more. But what you're missing if you're not subscribing to that is that DEI is being extended to the robots in Dilbert's company. So Dilbert is running about two years ahead of reality. Probably two years from having an AI coworker, an actual embodied walking talking coworker. And it's only a matter of time before DEI catches up and discrimination against robots becomes a thing.

In the comic that you don't get to see today unless you're a subscriber, the robot is complaining about people calling him derogatory names like "Skynet." Hey, Skynet.

Anyway, so that's what you're missing. Nvidia has announced a new GPU, new chip. Do you call it a chip? It's more than a chip, but it's got 208 billion transistors now. I don't even know how to process that. My brain can't even hold that. How do you make anything with 208 billion? How could you possibly manufacture anything that had 208 billion physical anythings? How's that even possible? You get that it's small, but 208 billion transistors. There's some fun stuff about to happen and it's pretty small too. So I guess you can fit it in one rack, you know, the things that practically were an entire data center not too long ago.

Well, here's an interesting thing happening. An AI took some of my online shows, this show, and tried to use AI to predict what the next show would be. So it takes my patterns and characteristics and turned it into a video of me actually doing the show today before I do the show today. And so it was taking some logical guesses about what I'd be talking about. It was pretty good. Yeah, I mean it didn't get exactly the prediction, but it was sort of amazing that it could do an imitation of me doing the show. And apparently there's an entity that is taking all of my materials and building some kind of an engine where you can reproduce me.

This raises many questions about IP because I have publicly said that if AI wants to copy me, that you know I'm giving public approval to that. But how deep does that go? Would that include, does that automatically give permission to use all of my books? I don't know. We're in weird territory where m

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aybe writing books won't make any sense anymore because they just get stolen by AI. So speaking of that, you know the book The Fourth Turning, a lot of you have heard of it. I said to myself, you know I'd like to know what's in that book but I certainly don't want to read it. So I asked ChatGPT to summarize it and then I got to ask questions. You know I asked more detailed questions. Well what ab…

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