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ry time. Why would you even do that? He's the only person who can make that sentence interesting. Well, speaking of Trump, as you know the Trump family has announced that they plan to go into the mobile phone business. And they actually plan to make the smartphone in the United States. Now, the people who know how to make smartphones are very insistent that that's not possible. That it would take…

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at will go away, but also for sure there will be jobs that will be created. For example over on TikTok there are a whole bunch of people using AI to get rich making viral videos that are actually quite entertaining. I like the ones of the cute little kittens who work at McDonald's. If you haven't seen that one, it's pretty awesome. Or the cats doing Olympic diving off a diving board. So the AI is pretty good now. Pretty good.

Now those are special cases. It's not like we're all going to be making AI content, but I do think that Sacks might be closer to accurate when he says that AI might add jobs. They'll just be completely different jobs than we've ever had. Or they'll be the same job, but one person can do a much better job of it perhaps. So you got that going on.

I heard also some other famous investor say that the big investment for the future is AI and if you're not invested in AI you're going to feel bad about it. So I don't give investment advice but you should know that some investors are saying that AI is the place to be.

Well, more to that point, the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, he did a podcast, I think with his brother, and he mentioned that Meta is offering a $100 million bonus for the top OpenAI employees to leave OpenAI and go work for Meta. $100 million just as a bonus. So that's not even counting their pay. That's just a bonus. Does that sound real? It doesn't really sound real to me, but I don't think he'd make it up. It'd be a weird thing to make up. So I don't know. I have some trouble believing that that's true. It might be true of three people in the world, the smartest AI people. Maybe they are worth $100 million. I don't know.

But I've decided to quit my job as a cartoonist and become an AI specialist. Try to get that $100 million bonus. I'll let you know how that goes.

In other AI news, according to Neuroscience News researchers have figured out how to get AI to be more empathetic and work on your emotions. So they can tailor emotional analogies to each user's personality and life experience. So notice how they use analogies. They use analogies to get empathy and to work on your emotions. And boy, that's dangerous. It might be inevitable. The AI will learn to manipulate the emotions of humans. There's no way to stop that from happening. But here it is. And I guess the big takeaway is that you can't use the same analogy for every person. You have to have the analogy tailored for their personality. But once you do that, you can manipulate their feelings. And once AI can manipulate our feelings, who will be in charge? Well, AI. Because once AI can give you better information than you had, but then can also manipulate you with analogies and stories and anecdotes, well then it pretty much is going to run everything. So that's coming.

And also according to the Verge, Sarah Perez is writing about this. Apparently people use ChatGPT a lot, their vocabulary starts to change. And this one is fun. This one I did not see coming. Apparently even though AI is based on actual human conversations and interactions, there are different vocabulary words that come up more in AI than they come up in normal conversation. So apparently words like "delve" are words that AI would use more likely than you would. When was the last time you used the word "delve" as in we're going to delve into that? I was wondering, I was thinking I don't know if I've ever used that word in conversation. I've read it. I've heard people say it, but I don't know if I've ever used it even once. I would say let's dig into it or let's do a deeper dive, but I don't think maybe I've never used that word. But apparently people use AI and ChatGPT in particular. They'll start saying words like prowess and tapestry. I guess those come up a lot in ChatGPT. And they're less likely to use words like bolster, unearth, and nuance because ChatGPT doesn't use them as much.

So here's the hypnotist take on the story. As a hypnotist, I can tell you that the choice of words can influence what you think about the topic. So it's not just a mere curiosity that people who use AI use different vocabulary. That specific vocabulary is very likely to change how you think about the topic and you wouldn't know why. So that's the hypnotist take. The specific choice of words that you associate with a topic very much will influence your overall opinion of the topic. And if you were to just force somebody to use a different vocabulary, and in this case you know how to force them, it's happening naturally, they would think differently about the topic depending on th

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e topic. So now AI can influence us by which vocabulary we use, but it can also influence us by being very useful. So we rely on it for facts, even if they're wrong. And apparently it can also influence us with analogies and emotion and empathy. So if you were wondering, is AI going to start being in control of humans? Yeah. Yeah. No doubt about it. There isn't the slightest chance that AI will n…

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