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rry. That was the question that Elon wanted to know the answer to. It wasn't the one he has the answer to. That's where I was going wrong. I thought I didn't write down his answer, but he doesn't have an answer. It's the question. The question is, what's outside the simulation? Is there like somebody in a gamer chair who's running our world? Maybe. Maybe. I'll let you know when I get there. But h…

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. You're really just talking about God. You're just using different words. So I always just get dismissed.

So that's where credibility is your superpower. Elon has it on this topic and others and I don't have it on this topic.

Well, OpenAI is announcing that ChatGPT, their app, will now work with some other existing apps. So I think that means it would act like the user interface for other apps. Not that they wouldn't have a user interface, but you'd be able to control them just by talking to your AI. So that includes so far Booking.com, Expedia, Spotify, Figma, whatever that is, Coursera, Zillow, and Canva. And they're adding ones all the time.

So let me give you the business take on this. As a user, wouldn't you love it if you could talk to your AI and you didn't have to open another app to do a thing? How much would you love booking a trip without opening a booking app? Oh my god, the booking apps are terrible. The travel apps, it's not just me, right? All the travel apps are complete garbage and you don't know which one to use.

And so, but if I could talk to AI and just say, "All right, I'm planning a trip to the Northeast sometime in the autumn when the leaves are changing," and then just have it make you up a great trip. That would be amazing.

But do you know what these app makers are not calculating? They're not calculating that if the user interface becomes AI, AI owns them. So basically they're plotting their own demise. So if AI can do all these things by working with an app, how long is it going to take before AI can do all of those things without the app?

So once you get people used to using AI instead of opening up say Booking.com, how many pe

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ople are going to open up Booking.com after that? Nobody. They're going to open OpenAI and then OpenAI can do stuff like put their own advertisement in it and then Booking.com will be like, "Hey, this is our app. We're the ones who should be doing advertising." And OpenAI will say, "No, we're sending them to your app." But after they see the advertisement. So what I'm suggesting is that these sma…

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