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er the treatments are over, I just wait a few weeks to see if it worked. And that will be a very long few weeks because if it doesn't work and I don't get back any mobility, my life will be quite different and probably a lot shorter. Mhm. Yeah. You can stop asking that question, explicit damage. Yeah. I will find out about the blue thing today. So my oncologist will be stopping by in an hour. It…

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ts. Looks like most of the comments are on Locals and YouTube. Can driver swing by Starbucks. Yeah, it does seem like, well, you know what it is? I think the phone app seems to be the best platform. So maybe I'll do something different when I get back. If I get back.

Oh, I have family members caring for the cats. Your wife will read my books now. Tell your wife it'll change your life. I helped you clean out your cobwebby thinking. I like that. It's very perspiry here. No, there's nothing even close. Mhm. Made her work life better. Good. Something about Reframe Your Brain, but I didn't see it. Oh, you blocked Sergio by accident. Reframe plus twelve steps. Whatever it takes.

Oh, I need a fan. Well, guess what? I have a fan. Oh my god, that feels so good. Pensacola, huh? You have four of my books for your son-in-law. That is just the right number. I have a lot of fans. It's your biggest fan. Oh, I should get an optimist to take care of me. You know, we're almost there.

So have any of you noticed, maybe you read a different news bubble than I do, but have any of you noticed that a lot of the chatter about AI is that it's underperforming? Does anybody notice that? And have you noticed that I was just about the first person in the world to say I don't think this has a future or at least the large language models are limited? You're going to have to give me credit for that one. I'm pretty sure that I was just about the only person in the world who even during the peak of the hype said, you know, I don't think this is going to work because there's no indication it could. It didn't really look like something that could scale. As soon as I found out it didn't know how to stop hallucinating, that was all I needed to know. Yeah, it can't read a spreadsheet. It can't read a file. The fact that if I made a little text file and put some information in there about me that I wanted people to access, it can't do that. If it can't read a little file and it hallucinates, what exactly can it do? Yep. And then it will eat up all the electricity. Yep.

I saw it today that ninety five percent of companies that tried to implement AI got no benefit. Ninety five percent. And I'll bet you the five percent who said they did get a benefit, I'll bet they're lying or they're too embarrassed to say it didn't work. You're long Oracle. I wish I didn't. I should have invested in Oracle, but you know, I got rid of my Nvidia stock a while ago, but I kept my Tesla.

Don't you use it as your PCP? What's the PCP? No, you can't solve it manually. Nobody can solve it manually. If they could, it would already be solved. Oh, you got your coffee warmer. Good. Again, Blackberry. A primary care physician.

So the thing that Elon is doing differently is that he's using video to train his self-driving cars. And I don't doubt that video could train a self-driving car. But I don't think you can create a general intelligence that will stop hallucinating. But we'll see because Grok is now part of the car. Nice shirt. Yeah. So it could be that Grok and xAI will be the only AIs that

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work. I've got a feeling that ChatGPT might have some rough water ahead. Cleaning up your public persona. Good luck with that. Yep. Yeah. But the one thing that Grok appears to be able to do, although I'd have to see it in action. I'm not sure I believe it yet, but have you seen the commercials? Not really commercial, but a demonstration where somebody talks to their Tesla and Grok is the voice t…

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