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Number one, oh, first of all, Owen is going to do a Spaces, which he's been doing on Saturdays. So you could look for that. I don't know if it will become a long-term tradition, but at least for today Owen Gregorian will be doing a Spaces after this show where you can talk about what we talked about, or I suppose anything else. All right, so look for that.
So yesterday I opened up my ChatGPT app, which I haven't looked at recently because I've been using other apps, and I didn't realize that my app had already been upgraded so that you can do the thing where you open the camera on your phone. You could just point your camera at stuff and the AI will have a conversation with you about what you're looking at.
Now, I didn't really know how cool that was until yesterday, where I'm standing outside my driveway at night and the moon is out, nice little crescent, but really near the moon is this very bright, presumably a planet. And I said to myself, huh, which planet is that? It's so bright. And so I turned on the ChatGPT camera and I just aimed it at the sky and I said, what planet do you think that is? And ChatGPT said, well, it could be this bright planet, could be this or it could
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be that, but it's probably Venus because that's the brightest one that would be in that part of the sky. And so I said to it, because it chats with you, you don't have to touch another button, you can just keep the conversation going. So I said to it, are you saying that Venus is the shiny one? And does that mean that the other planets would be experiencing Venus envy? And it laughed at my joke a…
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