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n. Now, does that sound like a bubble to you? I don't know what else that could be. If that's not a bubble, I've never seen a bubble in my life. I've seen a lot of bubbles. There's no way in the world that's worth five trillion dollars. Because it's not like they have no competition or that they'll never have competition or that we'll never find out that maybe there was some other way to do this c…

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mebody who had signed up to be an occasional delivery person and they get a message that says, "Hey, take this package over here." And apparently there's a lot of that happening. Esther Fung is writing about this in Wall Street Journal. So if I were a package delivery company, I'd be really worried about the Tesla autonomous cars and the Waymos and everything that works without a human.

Well, most of the news is about Elon Musk if it's technology news. So Grokpedia is launching or launched. They may have had to pull it back just to do some tweaks, but I think it's launched now. Mario on X is writing about this. What do you get from Grokpedia versus Wikipedia, which is a good question. First of all, Wikipedia will be done by humans who are going to be arguing about what's true and what's not. Grokpedia is an AI creation. So in a sense, it's trained on humans, but it would know everything that Wikipedia knows plus some. People would say 10 times as much. But also it's shooting specifically for less bias than the human Wikipedia would have, which leans left, we all say.

But what's different is the human editors can't ruin it. What's different is it's real-time updates. If you're on Wikipedia and something happens, you have to kind of hope somebody noticed and took the time to change it and then the other editors didn't delay it too long. But Grokpedia will just look at the news and it'll know what's happening right now. It will have newer citations, no humans, and Elon calls it a necessary step toward understanding the universe. That's a big claim, but probably valid. I think I'd agree with that. And yeah, so this might be the Wikipedia that you wanted but didn't get.

And as Mario says, the real test is whether Grokpedia can prove that AI generated content is more reliable and less biased than the humans on Wikipedia. Do you think it'll be able to do that? So you know, I have an advantage over non-public figures because I can look at what both Wikipedia and Grokpedia say about me and I'm sort of the expert on me. So I could have a sort of a perfect opinion about how accurate it is about complicated people like me. Would you agree I'm complicated? I'm kind of complicated, right? Because if you even tried to describe me, have you ever tried to do that? How many of you have ever tried to describe me to a friend or a family member and you found you couldn't do it right? I want to see your comments.

See, the problem is I have too many jobs. If you say I'm the Dilbert cartoonist, you're leaving out 75% of who I am. If you say I'm a podcaster, same problem. If you say I'm an author of books that help people, same problem. If you say I'm a persuasion expert, same problem. Because none of the things I do look like they fit together, right? It looks like I'm a miscellaneous. So if you're trying to describe a miscellaneous person as opposed to just say someone who's always been an author or someone who's only been a cartoonist, I'm kind of hard to describe. Which I like, you know, it's not a problem, but so I can test Wikipedia and Grokpedia to see if they can handle a complicated person. And the answer is Grokpedia is way better. Way better. But still it could use some tweaks that maybe I can find a way to tweak it even though it's AI based. Probably there's a way I can influence it. I'm guessing, but I don't know this for sure that if I simply did an X post where I said, I'm just doing this X post to show you what I think should be revised in my Grokpedia page. I think, but I don't know that Grokpedia would read that almost immediately because it's always looking for what's new and that it would add that to its consideration even if it just showed it. That's my opinion, not their opinion. So would that work? I would love if that worked. I think I might try it if I have the time.

There's a humanoid robot for sale. Wall Street Journal is talking about this. It's called the 1X Neo and so it's AI-driven robot. But here's the creepy part. It is not fully autonomous. So for a number of uses, but not all of them, the company representative wearing the virtual reality glasses would be actually operating the robot in your house.

Now, since I know exactly what you're thinking and feel

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ing right now, let me call it out. You're saying, "Oh my god, that would be like having a stranger spying on you in your own house, and you would never know when they were looking and when they weren't looking. That is the worst robot idea I've ever heard in my entire life. Get out of here, Scott. Stop it. We don't want to live in small homes. No tiny homes. Get out of here with your 15-minute hom…

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