Back to episode — Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25
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at makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go! Sensational. Best sip of the day. Well, of course I'm going to be talking about the LA fires, but I'll wait just a minute for people to stream in before that. I would like to note, do any of you remember, I can't remember how long ago it was, so we're going to test your long-term memory. It was a long time ago,…
← Previous segment →PT last night to digest a big legal document that I was asked to review. And I thought to myself, oh, perfect application for AI. I'm going to upload the document, and then I will query it to say, okay, is this handled? You know, what about this? What's it say about this? And it would summarize it for me, and I'd save a bunch of time. I was so happy to be in the age of AI.
So I took my PDF file and I uploaded it, and it said no, we can't handle the PDF file. And I said, in 2025 the advanced intelligence, the most important technology in the world, can't read a PDF file? But it said, you know, JPEG it could read. So I thought, all right, all right. Well, so I just changed it to a JPEG file, and I upload it, and it fails. And it says it can only take, when it goes to JPEG, it turns the document into each of its individual pages as one file apiece. But I thought, well, no problem. I'll just drag all of the pages in. It'll figure out the page numbers. Good to go.
And then I try to drag all the pages in, and it says can only handle four pages. And I think, okay, no problem, no problem. I'll just do four at a time because they're only, you know, 20-some pages. It's not going to take all day. So I drag four over. Good. So I drag anothe
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r four over, and then it clarifies that it's a total of four. It's not four at a time. It's a total of four. So I spent something like 45 minutes of my day finding out that AI can't do the simplest freaking thing. So I don't know. They say it's going to replace everything and do everything, but I don't know. All right, let's talk about the LA fires. It's all horrible. You know, if you're new to m…
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