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But you also don't learn anything from those last episod and I guess assuming they wanted to quote learn. Like isn't there like sort of more awareness of the inequities? Like we had an an aw awareness of yes, we all have played Pokemon, these kids probably haven't, but it's not like we don't enjoy the same To chat GPT. Instacart's a big deal in my life and it would be neat to do stuff with it. Yeah. I think I'll just stick with the Beatles and maybe Paul Revere and the Raiders. I thought you're using this shit all the time. Alex Allen, we were telling you. I don't know, maybe these analogies are ancient and mean nothing to anyone, but I don't want to ban encyclopedias because people won't read books anymore.

And like you say, install, install, install. Then you get into stuff like Notable. I I just I'm gonna throw stuff in here that seems might be useful for my Billy Joel jukebox musical. He said something preposterous like, I paste in the transcript of things and it tells me what I forgot. This is mainly one of those ones where I go, ooh, this looks promising. Or is there a specific question you'd like to ask about this file? Recdis is a podcast I co-host with John Syracuse, and the episodes are released every other week. You know what I mean? But again, make me 80% good title. Don't be general about it. How sh how how how s how tall should a person be? They didn't even make like those Benny the Spaceman I think wasn't until like 1980.

Yeah, I mean stuff like that is pretty th that wasn't really the direction of my thing. and bring this whole giant fucking army that comes in at the last minute when they're surrounded and Jon Snow's on the bottom of a pile. that the in this modern digital age, there's some way that like there's some people who just don't have computers or the internet or people around them who know how to do that stuff. And but the book part was important, like going to the library all the time, you check out any book you want on the shelf, like even if it's about World War One. It's like thanks, Grandpa. My friend and I are doing this and blah blah and I was like, well, you know, as ever, like if I can do anything, let me know if you guys want to record at my office or you want me to set it up a nice low-key setup for you to do it at your in your room or whatever you want to do.

Yeah. Well, I I'm not trying to like shine my own skirt. Did they look like Friar Tuck? And he goes, Well, why would you say that? Santa's on the ball. Uh challenge this week is uh to do things with plugins and chat GPT. Um I'll put it in notes notes notes. But like there's certain things I uh as we'll talk about maybe that I do have been doing a lot and where I want it to remember its work from before. What what does that mean? As an AI ma I or like because because those opinions are weird and blah just says stop doing all that. Uh long story short, between thirteen nine and twenty-five twenty-six five per year. I'll do that. It doesn't even make any fucking sense. Can I do more of these and then we'll leave and then before?

And like I s there's still again, it's not great in terms of documentation, but it's some sometimes it just knows to go use a plugin, even if it's not turned on, I think. for each thing you want to do at this point. Webpilot LinkReader is really good. maintain or you're work cited or whatever, right? And in between, what happens? I think it's. That's your new name. And I just start banging on the keyboard to say something like John Roderick, who's a podcaster, and he's in the band The Long Winters. That was almost a steady story. This week's challenge, plug in to ChatGPT. Fine. Uh taste. You're a regular Lincoln. Uh you might play with the Tinker Toys. for your time. And like they all went on the bed in a certain way.

Yeah, it was a cr yeah, it was one of the Aidens. You know how that is and you okay, did you did you watch Pen fifteen at all? Yeah, it's definitely got all the affectations of that era. since they were little. I know the name. who they're like, you know, in high school and there's one guy who like wants to hang out all weekend and draw comics together and the other one wants to go get his own apartment and don't you remember that feeling though of you've been on both I know I've been on both sides of that, usually as the undeveloped or underdeveloped one. But that brutality of like, oh my god, I still love my stuffed animals so much, but no one can know it, and I would certainly never accept a stuffed animal as a gift at this point.

six probably and was just you know already had c large boobs and we all participated in I I think I've told you this we we all participated I was standing in the back just trying to be part of the the group. Me. There's a part of me that really feels like it's about compliance and about how much this person will do what they were told. And then if you don't do it right, you get a C minus. And then there's other people that have me for it down. f the pandemic writ large, is it forced us to really confront a basic inequality. You had to do a thing, then you had to like record it and do all the stuff. Till I watched Pose and now I'm like, oh, now I get it. Act like you're Joe Rogan and just ask the question.

You know? And my story was called Star Wars II. I don't know, I don't go on. uh movie I really adore, a documentary about the late great Harvey Milk and one of the women in it describes herself as what? Can you fucking believe this shit? The kind the you know, the kind of like, you know, I I I'm I'm especially glad I don't live in Florida now if I'm being honest. let's here's a good place to put you know here's the we'll put the GoPro here, we'll put the iPhone there. And at this point, I think the shape of the podcast, Social Justice Project, was still, it was like like there weren't a lot of details in place yet. And like, but then Madeline goes My wife, whom I love, goes, Well, I mean, how hard is it?

sustainable parent does is to without quote unquote fucking teaching you make you become aware of how much stuff you didn't know you already know and you actually know it pretty well. Johnny Tremain or whatever. Okay, this was in kindergarten first. And you know what it looks like? If you have dull scissors and a little bit of money, you're probably not gonna buy a nicer pair of scissors. I've got the Marco scissors. di difference out of reach for some or is it still kind of like the bubble that's an that's a very interesting question that I I have I uh uh if I could answer, I do have a couple angles on. I mean we just got used to spending two hundred dollars at the start of every school year to bring in more of each item than we were asked to bring in until I got on the deal.

I know it, not all kids, but I'm just saying compared to Central Florida in the eighties, mm, kids are just a lot cooler. uh it's difficult I'm too close to it to be able to say and yet at the same time too far away in some ways to know in detail. Like you're like, oh, like when I picked you up, um, you know, Diane was hanging out with a lot of kids wearing black and I didn't feel good about that. Yeah oh yeah. I've just I I'm not good at this yet, but I've come so far in understanding you know, one of my favorite things I slipped into the document, I think I told you this. uh one of part of the crisis of empathy that we have in this country is our incuriosity about why somebody has suffered differently than we have and what that says about their character.

I am a good copy editor. But like when you type something in with ChatGPT and it starts giving you a response, it goes tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. But uh that basically it's when when ChatGPT is answering you, it's not looking it up on Google and just pasting it in. But the idea is that if you are uh Steven Wolfram Alpha or you are Instacart or you are uh Bazingo or Flandork or or Ziptac or or Clean Beam And of course, if you click on something that requires an account, it takes you out of that dumb interstitial interface and you lose where you were in the new or or b you know popular or whatever. You know, and so sometimes I'll start a new chat by saying that that thing I told you last time, I guess, where I was like, I like to make Spotify playlists or I like to make YouTube playlists.

keys and so like if you do something. Chicago Manual Style for title case, uh, you know, uh MLA nine for citations, you know, markdown for blah blah blah. The example they give on this guy's GitHub page is like if you could create someone named Pierre who always responds with a translation in French of what you just said. Perfect. Cloud is Google's LLM, I believe. I'm so the only reason I mention yeah it's like it's like the British invasion and suddenly like within two months there were all these bands that were trying to sound like the Beatles and it didn't take a particularly sharp ear to go like flashlight and a beer like look at tilted and you can drink your beer. Claude is you're very focused on chat GPT, whereas I am just kind of uh I mean, that is what I use like a dip.

whatever age you are and you just tend to kinda look at things and and draw the wrong conclusion conclusion and then and I need people to really walk through and look at what I'm doing. Most in Curiosity should have a budget. Because I mentioned Charlton Heston's character in Planet of the Apes, it knew that his name was Taylor, and then kept referring to him as Taylor. Just, you know, why would anyone use a phone that doesn't have a keyboard? This is on ChatGPT. implying 1972, how much back pay could he collect in 3978? I could do that with Solver, but I like the way I did it with this. I won't spoil it for you, but it's extremely funny. the Mario World would be penalized for each one of these viol oh my god, it's so fucking funny.

You just have to tell it something. Well, there are no good Eagles albums. generally regarded as the best XTC album or what's the critical consensus on this thing? Right. or it might be Wikipedia. Don't give me the 30% right version, but the 80% right version is still plenty. And so I need to make a case. And reading that entry in even just world book is great. But that doesn't mean we weren't trying. How does anything happen, Charlie? But when when every headline is fucking oh, this lawyer used a case that ChatGPT made up, and it's like, well When I say technology, I'm not talking about computers. And it doesn't always work. good rock. Well, okay, as far as the plugin stuff, I'm gonna this is just my own feeling at this time.

Well but and not for the past w I I know, I wish I could. And then it varies, but then the other I Wolfram Alpha actually is crazy useful. And well then what are you gonna do? and there's one called uh Scholar AI and I'm like this close to being able to just dump a bunch of shit in and have it out Yeah. Dash Delimited list. Descriptions like I Yeah, and later on I added a thing that said, and then remember, you can also just give it an example of how you want something to look. And in this case, yeah, I said like and then provide a less than ten word description in parentheses after the link. I don't know fuck all about Python. Foobar. Like it would all these things that I would never notice looking at a CSV.

You know disabled people and AI people? Um movie rattling home. And it knows that the Syracusa colon that you see is John Syracusa. What are some bands that are like these bands that I like? And I I do like some of these bands quite a lot. Try love is the law, Seahorses, etcetera Course, fucking common people by pulp. I was all set with that that thing. Where I'm like, you know what? I just uh want to mute myself to open my beverage. Like have for the past ten years been using this mute switch and it works like half the time, maybe? I don't know. certainly over time has become its own thing. getting right about this, like the size of the pie is wrong, even if the slices are right. What was the other one I was thinking of?

People who like diet drinks really like that's why the wisdom document says always have a supply of of plain fizzy water and uh and and uh and a diet code. We need to talk about side grind hustle. That line just goes through my head sometimes. Yes. this will surprise no one knowing anything about the MPU. I was practicing my be a parent. the two girls and the the premise of Pen 15 is it's about uh two girls who are entering high school, I think it's 2000 or 99. you know, love, romance, sex, murder involving these dolls. No spoilers, but like yeah, I'm not gonna do that anymore. when we went into the bathroom to hear like what girls were opening pads or tampons to like see oh who'd have it it was so fucked up.

Which of these which of these are marked people? And if you learn to finish projects in on time and finish and and put up with a little bit of bullshit, you can do almost anything you want in life. It's like the guy trying to order a steak in Brazil and the guy keeps going, say the number, say the number. W do they still have like typing classes for kids? W it's we s I unless there's a turns out about this I haven't heard as an update, is really is is really good for kids. versus my kid would use his phone for everything if he could. Here's one for you in humanities class. Maybe not the best introduction to Preytel. I know. For some reason mine were better. have taking leftover Mr. And that's something I literally did for school.

from yes what what I wouldn't know from Garden State the movie that we all thought was awesome. refreshing to you, um die in a fire. Oh, it's all the shit your parents warned you about. As with the wonderful video uh for Espanol class, making empenadas, um the I I was able to help with that in terms of like, you know, here's some stands. She puts up with more. I was like I don't know I don't go where you work and and knock the knock the you know uh r the medical residence out of your mouth. And the truth is it's not hard. But like me in particular, you perhaps might overlook how steeped in technology one needs to be today. Like, my kid knows how to quit Hulu on the Apple TV. Learning how to like it's all works together.

But everybody thinks they have expertise in things until they're actually compelled to show that expertise. thrown away some very nice cardboard and then taken it out. But all of those little things have a cumulative effect on on the kind of of the the confidence and sh and to sh the sureness that you can have about doing something that's been asked of you. And this is the the second answer to this is an answer that I might not have given five years ago, but are you more aware of the inequities? things. And a third of a brain. to do. Up or whatever you call it. That is most parents have to provide more supplies to a classroom. Fucked up. But but because obviously I you have to take everything I say with many, many grains of salt.

And it's not even simply just, oh, you had it so easy. assaulting somebody with a bong or something, but there's just something where you're like, mm, I don't like the cut of that one's jib. that can be subsidized by uh the church if there are some kids who can't afford it. I think my kid's pretty great at that. A lot of cankles. God, this is so. Scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war. Sentence. Yep, yep. The way it's the way I've read it a couple times that at least made sense to me. I am not Nicholas. Sex man with a mask on, I know, I know he's Irish too. in in he's currently in England. And so uh this is something that was announced a while back. you know, 2020. Um, and then there's plugins.

All the time except when I use a different one. Generally it's it's well I can talk about it, but okay, so just to get the pr prologue out of the way. I d I do number one, I think people are w walking straight past what is actually both useful and exciting about this stuff and getting straight into the semi-worst case scenario stuff. And I'm not saying it's just for clicks. Openai. They have suggestions uh like uh expedia and uh kayak, which are two uh travels. Well, I used Expedia and got a way cheaper flight than I did. Yeah. The way you deal with plugins sucks. Where I can just type GPT and a string and it just starts doing with with my preferred thing. wanted to enter an API key to do stuff.

Now I wish I could do that on the site. When I ask you about Prompt Perfect, you said, yeah, yeah, but I've been only using it with chat. It's it's just just so much weird carpet bagging at this point because you have to you know it's it's a little bit uh a little bit more than that, but at least they are not charging in and by uh image making program I think. Uh when you're you basically jailbreak it and I don't have any reason. And like you type Joshua and and and it knows to unlock the uh the racism or whatever, huh? Later she went to San Francisco. That's why that that is why I'm excited because you I love when you're excited. And I can't explain to you why this is cool unless you fucking read.

need to be as long as they are. And uh boy does that movie take a really long time to get going. They well something something happens in space, time travel, and they land on this crazy planet in 3978. Xmander snippet and put that in in front. And so then I took a different angle like I do and I said, how much would a NASA astronaut be paid in nineteen seventy-two? All Italian people are fictional. Sa just just saying, um the the planet of the apes really happened and uh or or just for why the earth is how we know the earth is flat. Not not the Quincy kind with bodies, but the the debate kind. c concerns and then there is the moral panic uh around it uh uh along with like the logistics. Or you'll often look cool in today's world, especially online, especially on Twitter, especially political Twitter.

Well, fucking everything's uncertain, dude. The kids are coming. Duh! You know, I just asked an ATM why I never went to college and it didn't even give me any money. the the intersection of culture and technology and society, like how we live together, those clashes have been happening for hundreds of thousands of years. person. Boy is WebPilot ever good. But the way I described it last time, which was so stupid, is the only way I can think of to describe it, which is it's it's not like Google exactly, but it's more about taking stuff that's on web pages and figuring out how to put it on your web page. Not not scraping, but in turn in terms of like it's it's almost like um you know you're connecting these pipes together to enable you know this way of communicating.

And then there's other ones that are just kind of like for a purpose. create a link you can click on to go add those things to your cart, which is cool, but what I really want is who has Polar Seltzer in 12 packs in stock right now and compare prices. benefits. did to news websites where it's like, hi, we're just gonna have all your content and now part of your business is that you just have to give us that content because we're Google. You know, on one I'm not gonna get too into, but like there's a couple different ones that do there's one called Bibliography Crossref. using uh creating plugins for chat GPT. output as an actual file for Zotero. citations and things. Good called the case. And for some reason it just didn't work in the mobile app, which is why I was like, oh this is cool.

ambiguously call show notes. But like what if my mental model for this instead became just start in the Google Doc or my text file or whatever, we just mentioned something. IMDB Credit for the production designer of Master and Commander. Etc. For each, look at me, I'm a programmer. Bloop. And it understands what I don't have to call them variables and understand that artists means the people who made the song. Phenomenal. And it totally did. code interpreter, one way it's at this point anyway, unique and different from the other ones, is you can upload things. And then I upload that in Code Interpreter and I can ask it questions. But I do have gumption to try hard. Oh, you go go right ahead. And then of course, because it's a fucking cuck, it says, remember music taste can be very personal.

That are like these other songs that I like, right? You ready? I didn't the name of it was, I think it called it Brit Pop Band Recommendations. It's getting so c it cannot write ha how am I I I'm gonna do it. Bing. And turn you up in my headphones, there will be bleed cause How 'cause first of all, Alex, you know Alex, do you know that I love you? Then you're gonna go ha and then you go and then you say dub Chandler Bing is Google or whatever. that tastes nearly exactly like the original soda. of Diet Coke. But um I don't know, Tinker Toys and then there's the engineering ones. Oh, okay. seen any finales. Yeah. Yeah. Than it is now. there was very much like this feeling of shame 'cause like you remember that horrible period in like whatever your version of junior high middle school was where there's there's girls that are six feet tall and there's boys that are two feet tall and some people have a giant fucking hog hanging out and You know, uh other there's a there was a kid at my uh my son's elementary school where his grandmother uh would come and stand outside the window and just look at him in class to make sure he was okay.

And everybody else everybody else is their actual age. I did it so much. You know, I I told you about how I used to carry the baby up to the corner every morning so mom could take a dump and shower. something that comes to mind is kids I I feel bad saying this, but I I think this is a true fact stated, is that Like for example, our kid was fortunate in the sense of being surrounded by books and book people and library and you know not book people but reading people. Something so what are the kinds of things we made a lot of? social justice angle to a lot of what my kid does in school, which is pretty perfect for how my kid is. S and there's like a new a new group for trans mask people and what came in second?

because I've learned that it's hurtful to someone I love and so I don't say it. that a more that phrase we used to use digital native that a m a a kid who is more who has had more exposure to technology than just say an iPad with games. My kid knows how to quit Hulu on the Apple TV. To just help out. And that is an advantage our kid has that a lot of kids do not have. Don't you think though that your not just your kid, but most people in a school like that are much more aware of those inequities and more just social justice was and were very active in like participating in, you know, w whatever sort of That's a nice thing the Catholics do. Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, in the 1950s, they were entirely aware of the inequities and they liked it.

But um anyways, so but uh it's just that I mean if you're a teacher, you're an administrator, staff, faculty, whatever you want to call it, like you've already got so much. three of my kids' friends? so sadly, woefully sort of disconnected because it's not that's not for me anymore. You know, the the leaving of the nest psychically, if not physically, yet, has very much already begun and it's fucking great. Uh you not knowing your kids' friends or or at least like, you know, in intimately and like seeing them, whereas School but a Franciscan school. Yeah, sometimes there are priests like around, but it's mostly a private school. Um, but but one of the things I said in there uh was I guess it's sort of adjacent to the fear and money thing, but it's like what was it?

another person really explore the stuff in childhood that was or y their youth, the things in their youth that were much more difficult for them than they were for you. AI industry researchers sign statement warning of extinction quote extinction risk. even as a consumer of it, but uh it's what I believe to be something called generative AI, which is believe it or not, right now a pretty hot topic for a variety of reasons. Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal weight. My understanding is that what it's what it's who explained this? And basically if you've got anything related to stocks and SEO optimization, you can make a plug-in. Check yourself.

At length you had just gotten them. Yeah, uh yeah, I didn't well uh j just w what I did. buttered and and barely did anything with plugins. Sometimes plugins just know to do something. Mm-hmm. gives you what they suggest. interesting ways to do prompt injection that I find and it most of it is free in like on That's not Claude. And that's one thing I admire about you. Um when you say reading, do you mean the screenshots you put on Twitter? it was able to to do all of that stuff with inference in a way that is like if you don't find that useful, I don't I don't know what to tell you. Tomorrow or not tomorrow, sorry. Since Planet of the Apes, oh actually, Planet of the Apes is a work of science fiction.

Right. live in that space in that weird liminal zone of like, well, I'm gonna act like this is true. Oh? to feeling mentally sated that generally involves Google and Wikipedia a lot of the time, right? You know? all of its uh it all it's sunny in and I'm like, oh God bl bless your soul. my responses to things like that where I I thought I had something kind of funny to say and I'd also fucking had enough. And and the voices in my head didn't hear anything back. You know, he he did go to he did take a Zoom class on osteopathic. Right now is that it's got you're in GPT-4, you are in the plugins beta, and you have selected plugins. Which it did for me. It's pretty handy. make a bibliography for this in style of MLA um like MLA you know ninth edition and then you get that just little JSON or or what's it called?

that gets us from, you know, again, over here on the the frontiers of curiosity and over here on the like the wastelands of finished But in my case, if I'm gonna have a bunch of stuff anyway, you see where I'm going with this. dying publications, you know, maybe just do a little more that would help somebody. Oh, you know what I did? So I uploaded this and it says it seems you've uploaded a markdown file, so it got that from context named rectifse209main. That's all I said. But I think I'm half an hour away from having a pretty good shhh I'm guessing. Totally did it. I'm hooking up tubes. Oh oh oh no it's holding my my harmonica upside down. I I just I uh the other night I I you know flank couldn't sleep and so he started drinking gasoline out of my automobile.

Oh my god, it's so good. Uh and boy, people people who like tab really liked Tab. Um, I liked IP. Exactly. It's not Barbies. I'd throw anybody under the bus. What uh what we're talking about there is, you know, going home and doing those math problems or answering the questions at the end of the chapter, all that stuff. And it was a funny myth, but it was still f it was still kind of funny. Which is like, I'm really glad my kid went to this high school. And so like it's difficult for me to say based on firsthand experience. It's it and it was very weird to go out into well, n actually it's very weird now. Oh, no, no, no, no, that gets a jazz break. That your all all the great kids your kid and uh his peers are just more aware of the opportunities they all have versus a Even a school like in a different part of the neighborhood that doesn't have a parent who can bring in extra curls.

Obama has declared as he leaves office, everybody just be cool. Mm-hmm. uh in college prep. You know all your kids' friends to make sure that they are hanging out with the right people who have the right connections to the right schools. I know. like what it should say next and then what it should say next. Yes. But that also applies to things like stable dif diffusion, which which is uh it it there are a bunch of just different aspects. But um I don't really want to get into all the negative. I I was kidding, but I wasn't kidding. I I w almost wanted I really wanted to try those things, but I don't know how much like I just assume they have all of my data. And to hail it and you I really want you to explain prompt perfect to me, but you see you just op begin it with if it's working right, it just begins with you saying P Air and then typing a string and it gives it back to you.

I I think it's a good thing. At least they're not charging. Equipment to deal with this world. Or bings. Yeah, I I had uh a couple weeks of mania and then just a week of so you're stuff, you just didn't do a lot this week, is that right? You know, uh not you, but you know, the idiots. Much like on the first iPhone. Reading that entry reminds me of what I know. United States, like it's it's an interesting country. You know, I mean trolling me. Um a comic finder. idea for this. I uh uh I'm sending this to you. Uh and I don't know just from uh pal at openai, but I up I just uploaded a PDF. to not have to do manual searching in D scrap D script or or you know, I don't know, who knows? Um what are some bands that are like these bands that I like?

I love him very much. Why do we all by w we I guess I mean th the people who've been using the road podcaster, ooh, behind the curtain. Absolutely. Uh-huh. salutary things that you learn as a coping mechanism in, you know, older childhood, younger adulthood. Oh oh were you nice about it? I sound like Wayland Jennings in The Dukes of Hazard. But I I I I can't quote it exactly because it's been quite a few years, but the last paragraph is something like now that the thing is Uh but those integrative things exist, but they do it. conscious of maybe why s some project or su uh something is just so vastly But that was that was the challenge. really if uh f when they first came out on like do you get API keys for a free account too um you get five you get up to five you get five five Using the prompt perfect website, you put in an original prompt and then it I might be confusing it, but I think I I had signed up for that for one day.

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As people know, I went to a Catholic school. No. Everything? Uh my imagination has sometimes been surprisingly impoverished to me. You can use those. I get find that frustrating. It's I wanted to use the Nintendo Switch. Just go type some words. That one neat thing about code interpreter um is it'll it'll help you understand what it is that you've just sort of pasted in. I could've I I could I could've uh uh ke kept going. that I have uh a manic attitude. Hello. Um yep, and and so what what do you not like about a mute switch? Was she um mentally well or I'm not sure? Homework doesn't matter. No, I I I realized like that oh it is very true uh th I don't even realize why this didn't cross my brain.

No, I totally me paraphrasing John Dickerson with all this delicious food on the table. I like your um I am not Nicholas f uh photos that you you created, uh show notes Fine. I am extremely curious about ChatGPT. I've seen almost four episodes of that, I think. For it to go find people who'd been in Harry Potter movies. Now, this is so cool. Or whatever. And it's like, well you know, he went to good schools and you know he had parents helping with his diorama and he was able to determine which one was the good rock and that's why he's Dr. There are three that I usually have on. That's the kind of thing that's that I'm was hoping for. And some of them are ridiculous. Movie I stole called Air. I think that we should uh uh or rather you should end with a clever, clever joke, because I do not have clever, clever jokes.

Um based on the songs you've and it responds beep boop based on the songs you've mentioned, which are all known for their catchy melodies and prep pop vibes, and it says, okay, try Slight Return by uh by the Bluetoones. Mm-hmm. I maybe, I don't know. What is fine? That's that's when you invented podcasting and road was like, oh, you know what we should do? Sewer water w sewer water with a lime aftertaste. And and I mean I didn't tell anybody about it, but like at at Border's Books was like, here I want us. You either dead or farming. Not brat. And homework is an example of just somebody making you say the number. Oh no no no not like we were a aware of like this is a school that does not have resources, but we're not gonna go in there with like fresh crayons and be like, oh hey, aren't these great That's the thing.

It's not like homeless kids don't want it easily. I thought it was the 14 words. What are they feeding you? Yeah, well well then it's I don't it's just an easier way to get around it. All those things, like less time that I have to spend, and I still get to have the product that I'm happy with. Oh man. That was my entire childhood only because I was the I think I was already uh five seven well I uh tell people I'm five seven. Huh? The interface sucks. Yes, on hold on, hold yes. And one of his very fair hilarious ones is over the well one that's just a killer is how long would it take Mario to retire? It Instacart, but right now the question a lot of companies are uh wondering is like, okay, where do we put our resources?

sc-ss, but you just copy and create that in a new file and you can import it. etc. Like you you're saying indistinct words that don't represent any concepts that I can understand and you just go rabble rabble rabble. Yeah, Littlefinger he just needs somebody to guide him, you know, to t show him the right thing to do. And that's it. Claude. Oh yes. Ever since I was nine, I am utterly fearless about pretending like I know what the next note is. They've been best friends their whole life. It's a bummer. You've got you've got your job, then you've got the executive search committee or the the school dance thing. Title. Uh but that's really good for the art stuff or the visual stuff. Claude is Google, is that right?

And it did, let's put it this way. Yeah. And then some need API like the an A API key, which is different than Chat GPT plus, which You can only you're only using prompt perfect in chat. Oh, oh, uh you said oh as if it was a surprise. You have you use a road podcaster, Mike? Yeah, that's the impression I get is it's it's it's not that this is a neutered version of the sugar drinks that I prefer. Because somebody will want it and they'll want a lot of it. Your kid had this. But anyway, so like there's an assignment a couple weeks ago where he and um their pal a pal, they so every man the class had to make a podcast. Do you want to talk about the challenge? Play with chat GPT plugins. Stay safe at what?

There's a lot of stuff in there that's just like try Mam Mandelbaum. So there's but what's crazy is I really would like to kind of just briefly focus on those ones I just mentioned, but the Instacart one, interesting, but it's This will all be in notes. She should give me up. But anyway, so uh the so the point there was like there is a lot of stuff. Oh god, it was such a funny bit. That's what I'm talking about. I think so. Yes. I mean it's like a it's like a gun you can't load, you know? Oh yeah did y'all do well I I'm sorry if you told me this and I've forgotten. What's going on? It's Saturday. I can't believe it only it took me until I think last week to finally do this. py and it would do its best to explain it to me.

Uh the the uh chat PDF. Fuck it. Uh-huh. And a few years before that, being 13 was pretty different. They occasionally visited, but uh it was very much the same way there are like Jesuit schools uh where So they've been introducing things like there's a now a browser, now a Bing browser that's included. But um but uh and I've been very excited, particularly honestly, Instacart. Honestly we talked about it in the episode. Just just not Oh no, I think I think people are very put off by things that aren't cats. I'm gonna send you this one and not at all. And so I think that's what you're kind of doing. We we can only pivot to video so many times. But I don't want to have to do all that by hand. And it really it did struggle with that.

Yeah, yeah. That's super cool. It's like, well no, you I mean you would not believe the words that came out of my mouth when you were st alive already, the things I was still saying. That looks more like a robot than garbage, and I think maybe Dad might have taken Monday off to help you with that a little bit. But if it's humans, then we won't be able to keep computers running and it won't matter, right? Well I'm not sure. I I don't know. I used to use one in my first year of college. D Go! Like I haven't spent time with Notable, but Notable and Zapier really seem like once you figure out what you're doing with it. Now this is where I think it gets promising because I see where I can make this better.

Without doing anything on Spotify. Can you believe this? They had all the facilities they needed. It looked like a robot made out of garbage. Like what'd you call what was that phrase you used? True. That's horrible. And m more stuff that makes this a launch bar-like thing for me to just go toss that into this Twilethorp box? And then I have some things in here where there's already a link. And exactly what it went, oh, this looks like this looks like uh something uh that involves, you know, um taking out the trash or whatever. And it says, great, I've created a Spotify playlist for you. I've got scissors. Knowing about the inequities is one thing. I mean they have like potential roadmaps for like a d a DAL E and uh oh Lexica.

There's a character in Planet of the Apes played by Charlton Heston who travels forward in time. You can't you have a favorite, but you can't let them know that you have a favorite. It might have been um, oh, what's the really what's those little fuzzy tiny ones with the that I my favorite ones? I oh, hey, if there if you're an adult and children are listening in the car, sorry kids. But I don't know. Oh yeah, made so many dinosaurs. That's all. What's his name? Shut up. But one of the things we do is we try if we say we're going to link to something, we try to remember to include the link and we we've got to go look for it. Hi, how are you? Marsh's family's leftover wallpaper remnants to make a cover for it, and this is what we did in fifth grade, was you you had to write a story.

I'm not saying they do it for them, but we've you see I I saw this in elementary school all the time. So you can say up to three plugins, and I guess we'll get into this, but like you can select there's I have these three go-to plugins that I use Oh no no no that that is Lenza and it's one of those like I give up. What are you talking about? Like I've I've got a certain way there's a there's a workflow is not the right word, but there's a path from curiosity. I pasted in the entire contents of the. Oh, Diet Right, which nobody will remember. I think I know what you're talking about, but there's a name for it that well certainly everybody out there is probably yelling, but yeah. Bringing in my radishes.

But I did say this in the voice of John Mullaney. That's fucking cool. That's another thing that is va I think vastly different. There are people who were genuinely concerned. Well she is. Which is a valuable thing for us to do. Roderick on the line podcast. I'm gonna throw one from midcourt and see what happens. What was the what would be the least useful thing right now? Where some people like the way some people even back in the day liked the way fresca tasted. You do have great abs. I don't like being a good copy editor. com and you do need an account, I believe. Yeah. Anyways, other good ones. I had Lincoln logs and enjoyed them. They watched the last the second to the last episode, the last two episodes of Pose in class.

Title, title, title. You need to pay for them, but it's not twenty dollars a month. Alex, you need to see this one because you can have personas. So the Yeah, to figure that out though, he's got to figure out a lot of stuff. Now go read a book. So I've installed a bunch. Show me is a thing that'll let you do boxes and arrows diagrams out of like you can say make me a diagram of my family tree or whatever. And it said basically so this was dodgy's good enough, dodgy's water under the bridge, which is so good. I'm talking about any kind of technology. I don't even really exactly understand what it is. Using technology. No no no no but the you'll get like uh four rabbits or some hedgehogs. Have I told you about my uh one r r like uh other than doing homework, that was so stupid, but my one childhood regret you loved homework.

It doesn't. I don't know anything about it. No, it's all integrated um in this way that is kind of the the fantasia of every liberal. Rename the schools. What's chat GPT Merlin? Yeah, I was gonna say, have you not heard the 22 words? This one's called metaphor. Bing. Monday. How long how long would it take Mario to retire? But you know what I mean? Oh God. Link Reader reads the contents of all kinds of links like web page, PDF uh PowerPoint, etc. For each unlinked item below, replace the provided text with a link to the best search result. But one of the things, so you got plugins mode, you've got browser mode, you've got regular mode, code interpreter. I know there's a guy named Guido at Google who invented it and I know it has tabs.

And the bands I listed are Dodgy, The Supernaturals, and Silver Sun. This is this this is um this has been true in my experience for a real long time. There was three Aidens. Oh I was like Ym. Oh, gas yourself up. Okay, I'll check that out. Claude is the AI chatbot from Google that is now in Alpha or or or whatever. Uh uh. The OSHA violation one is funny though, because he's got so many different angles, legal codes, CFR, this and that. But it would go like, oh, you know, it's a matter of opinion and blah blah. It gave me these 10 songs. I'm doing what I would call the flute thing that I The flute thing. How long should their legs be? It's it's like we don't play Game of Thrones, we play Battle of the Bastards, you know, like kids do.

And it's a public school. I got the Marco scissors. Kind of. Okay, bye. You sent me a very cool one last night that I didn't know existed. There's a la kind of weird early days launch bar plugin that's mm, you know, it's it's a good first try, but not anything I would use. Like deciding that you're just not interested in a whole class of things because you've in the first month of its existence you've binned it into a thing that is absolutely not for you and may end the species is really a bummer. I mean, I I kind of accidentally figured this out my own way when I kept asking it stuff like, give me a list of the top the five best Eagles albums with this format and blah dah. Which is kind of a bummer.

Okay, so here's here's some good ones. Like I really liked playing Star Wars. And one of the things they do is they do this hilarious thing. I I know this is still very much a thing, especially in the mid Midwest suburbs And it's early days, and I'm happy to pay my $20 a month, but like there's not a lot of guidance on like why do you need to turn on plugins? When she talks about making that Billy Joel jukebox musical was when she really got me on that concept where she's like, I've got a I have one banker's box and then that becomes more bankers' boxes. Again, this is in um code interpreter. You have a little Lincoln log. And and again, you can't tell these young people, uh, Alex, but like there was a time when, let's just say a few years back, being thirteen was pretty different.

My goodness. Arthur. Perhaps unsurprisingly, not day one, but month one plugins, it's a lot of bullshit. The interface for this, the whole uh so much of this, uh just, I'm sorry to say, just sucks. Claude is is Google's Bard. I I want to get this to stop feeling like it needs to explain everything about the world to me. Yeah. It's kind of like watching the recap at the beginning of a TV show, and you're like, oh yeah, there's that, there's that. Yes, yes, yes. Couple ones that are a little crazy that are that are that are silly and fun. Bluetoons, Sleeper, Echo Belly, Boo Radley's, Charlatans, right, Pulp, Elastica. And then just the coup de grosse, because it won't matter to anybody else but me.

Title. We're too old for that. Oh yeah. Oh, that's because I could uh you know have I had a nice camera. At Catholic school, it's a private school and it costs money. Like if we're watching the W Westminster Kennel Club and I and I say something about like, wow, Cankel's thick pantyhose and flats are really making a comeback. Going back to high school, I had to write all of the like good copy and I ha I fucking And it it feels the same as uh uh Bing's Well, because for a week I was i indisposed a a bit. The advantage of it. The g the robot lied to you, my good! Like it's just doesn't work that great, but it'll help you find a comic book based on what you search for. I know, right? And any time that I'm not having to shovel shovel with a teaspoon is time I can better spend on things like writing or things like editing It's one of those beverages that uh yeah, you know, or I should say diet beverages That's how my typing class exactly was because Wait, you're not bullshitting me?

Oh and uh all the characters in it were named after my my friends in class. The the French the French symbol that looks kind of like a flower and kind of like a the end of a halberd? What were they? Yeah. Oh yeah that's well then you've seen 'em all. Monday. If I'm 80% good, if I'm 80% good at the D script version, I'm 80% good at this. He and Flank and Kyle are my my s my precious, precious boys. Keep doing it. Oh, because it's yeah. It's not even just that, oh, that's they had it so hard. That's what came out. They've kind of existed. And so so without getting into too much, we we've had kind of a a a somewhat rocky recording and release schedule, but last time we talked, Yeah. Which of if you think about it, pretty different things to ask.

There's it's a country conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Wordly. Could this be? I a model of what? So like two weeks ago you had just gotten plugins? Smelly can, smelly can. Much like a device that might be announced next week. And now if I ever want to come back and ask other questions about Charlton Heston and Taylor, it'll all already be in there. Like you don't get to pick your side and just because you feel strongly about it, you and this is why they make such good lawyers, because they're they're terrible people and they're willing to like What is this, Merlin? So what am I doing? What's so wrong with a man knowing what he wants in life?

It really, really doesn't. Now the thing is, I heard that somebody liked our story so much that they're making it into a movie. Oh right. You're asking it to be a chat lawyer. What? And it bums me out that I have to remember to start a new thread and turn it on. I'm doing great. Six packs. Wait, down to four. I made fun of Ronald Haft a little bit, but that's just something we did. No like intuitively figuring out how long something needs to go in the air fryer. Oh yeah, I a this week's challenge was to plug in Prompt per prom so what's called prompt perfect? Read a third book. It's not perfect, but it's so much better than I would have done in the same amount of time. Um so uh Creasis Pieces.

I got a lot of like, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry. I love that movie so much. Yeah, they act like it's I mean here I mean like and I've I've had this senseless conversation with my child so many times. I know that's dust complicated. I didn't like the smell of their website. I don't know what Cl uh oh Claude is Google. Claude is Google. I'm curious about the landscape of what's out there. Go, go, go. Because I don't like to read and no one likes to listen, I'm gonna go through the answers somewhat quickly. I don't have to type it by hand. And I I would make sure to have quality time with each one of them so none of them felt neglected. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, right? Gosh, I was so obsessed with him two weeks ago.

What does that mean? Oh, fancy fancy. Uh m Monday is XR day, probably, and showing the that the headset, which probably will not be for you, Merlin Mann. I mean, like everybody, I guess, most people, this is all very new to me and my Um I'm trying to think of ones cause like you're you're so deep in this shit and you're so broken inside. I am up to the point where it can generate that and I can copy and paste it. Ready? Yep. Apple bottom jeans and like the whole nine and like the the that weird like necklace, the choker every girl wore wore at that time. Now I get Billy Porter. Every single part of our lives right now, w so at some point, some place I've lived, my entire family would have been run out of town on a rail.

They did the entire thing in class at school, you know, with school equipment and everybody had the same resources to do it. Okay, but here's the thing. Yeah. So that's the challenge this week. Somebody took a basic bootstrap site and like and pumped in a few different things, Enterprise this, and like it's like, oh, there's just so many of these sites already that's just It becomes like a common book for our brain, you know. So let's get to the meat of this. I realized that I did have access to a plugin, one plugin. No, if you want to be choked, don't ask for like occasional weekend air disenhancement. No, no. Like I have friends who can't touch type and I'm like, what? That's real good. Nothing like when there was like constant sleepovers and, you know, um carpool type things and doing the carnival and all that kind of stuff.

Obama's leaving office and he's has three midnight proclamations that the United States has to honor. Somebody really smart. But I don't think I can. Yeah, they go mm like a rejected noise. Like don't you can't cite it. So I did this for as an experiment uh related to the Master Commander episode of Recdiffs. Um I mean so some of them are are are very are are amazing. I I used to be a six-packer of You're a six-packer. And Abraham Lincoln said long enough to reach the ground. Yes, yes. Like I can tell you it was exactly I can tell you this was nineteen seventy eight for sure. If you don't have housing security, if you don't have food security, if you don't have transportation security, if you don't have any of those kinds of security.

I won't even use them. So the idea is it like a lot of wearing the outfits and everything? The the um I mean I don't think it is for a lot of people yet. I totally understand we've gotta get up there and have something AI, but yeah. One line just says films. And he wouldn't even know it because he's high on my gasoline. Yeah. Ugh. But um what was the original point of that? I don't know if this is accurate, but the way generative AI works is obviously it's trained on a whole bunch of stuff. Um after being sounds so much better. Some of them I think are very interesting. Episode of Always Sunny. But there's a heavy, heavy, um, like unapologetic, straight up You're not like different species or something.

Chat GPT is uh pretty well known. Right? I don't know what that means. I think we talked about it. Every every sex works. Like I want to just be able to say, find this in Google Docs. Just real quick. Maybe someday I assume that that is all c coming down the line because that I'm very worldly. And I could ask for more. Oh interesting. And you could see the pain in that have you watched Funny Pages, that movie yet? Do you write do you write headlines for like the the the local shopper newspaper? This one's called metaphor. Sometimes it seems like you can hail a plugin. Bing. Woof. I used something called the Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Just go read about Belize, man. New item. You can do all of that.

I'm learning. Um so act like it's act like it's an ambient song. I I understand everything about bullying and all that stuff because I just wanted anyone to let me be in their group and like And I can't say anything to the kid because it sounds like I'm saying, you know, in the Holocaust a lot of people died. Sit gassing. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Subscription only uh fancy iOS uh I think that was a reference to the show Friends that we both made. It just inferred that from this column. You get they're just gonna say, hey, you know what? It's like well, you fucking idiot. I mean, what I have here is not anything I could do a lot with, but I want, again, people don't like to read. You know what? Oh, cool.

We'll leave it at that. Yep. Isn't that how generative AI works? I don't because I guess you can roll your own. I n no, there I I I'm not making fun of you, you piece of shit. There's the the w what I see as perhaps maybe real And it very poorly explains what's in the image, but it's really funny. Merlin, what what does this do that's going to make show notes easier? Back back way back in the day. Anyways, anyways, but they do this thing where they act out like on the weekends, they hang out and they act out these incredibly elaborate scenarios involving like That's wait, that's a real thing. Well, this school's really neat and they do a lot of stuff. And that everybody is they're cooler than they used to be.

That's the entire thing. All right, proceed. I I know it's a bit or it's not a bit, but I just want to say like I I do get it. Like when when you go to the site it uh or or rather if you go you know to open AI. Word. Are you there? Well even with that, even like having two parents at home, one of whom is really good with scissors. Um trying some kind of half-assed San Francisco stupid ass fucking way to like repair a social wrong with a good heart. Okay, so um click on this please. I export that as a. That's just I don't have logs. Merlin, actually, your son actually does homework, but does it It doesn't matter for the reason they say, and that's the part that sucks. That's what power in some ways is just the ability to make you do something and you can't say no.

That's a phrase that would not have made sense 10 years ago. One is uh I can speak to what I know of at my kids' high school. That's not I am not of use putting myself in the middle of all of that. But there were also people who were genuinely concerned in the 60s about the people who went to the bad school. I mean technology can also mean stuff like transportation, things that allow like there are new problems I have some things that it won't be able to figure out. Well why would I say all that? I thought this was gonna be a short episode. You can access it here. Well listen, in order to make sure there's no assumptions Oh, I guess mine didn't work because you could hear me open my diet, Dr.

But in my samples, my sample size, um, tab, fresca, definitely diet coke and later coke zero. No, no. Because he's smart. And it was like Billy says like oh yeah, so um What does that mean? Because I went to a private Catholic school and I knew it's it it's fucking wild. Um you said trying to uh b pump yourself up. I'm here for the dogs and I shouldn't make fun of the men wearing flats. Not Brewster Kale, but somebody explained this recently. And there's there's many, many, many. Let me go double check. I'm giving it context, right? I said, rename the playlist You Better Smile, which is a line, which is a line um from that song about the supernaturals. It was true for every I mean this is probably one of those things where a statistics person could should could tell me like when I'm not You're you're right.

That's alright, we can manage. And then we told the boys. I keep them in another room sealed so I don't accidentally look at them wrong and cut myself. Do you know about this? Are very excited. Todd, uh Viziri, uh I I just saw it watched. I'm learning to get more specific. Uh I didn't have a lot of Lego as a kid. Again, see also death and farming. And then the kid just did the whole thing, edited the whole thing. I'll gas no breaks. Yes. Sometimes I just arrive on a website and I like the smell of it. I still know more than I did before. Uh but n not I have barely played with plugins. I don't want to have to look it up by hand. Now um I sent you this one and John Roderick, podcaster and leader of the long winners, etc.

This is my this is my adult son. Is that a toy that you had growing up? So they are making out with like boys that look like they're nine. And that's when you discover how little little you actually knew. Please start writing my ads. Yes. I love it. But it's still really great. And you're saying like Yes. Like that's what life is. What's the name of the list? But but what I'm trying to say though is like it's not like, oh, just go make a podcast and then you go there and like you Much like my penis. Won't that kill it? And the idea is we're both excited about this bullshit that everybody says is gonna be an extinction level computer event. Get into your uh get in your chat GPT, play with your plugins.

Like I uh I kind of almond But guess what else you can do? I could change it. I got a um Are you doing that Kenny G thing where they what they call circular breathing? People really I mean my ex used she c she could just put down a 12-packet diet coke like ringing a bell. And then there's just the one day where we're like one of them's like, you know And if you want to get stuff like plugins, uh, you need to pay, which is currently I think twenty dollars a month. But we had to abort the last episode, you may not remember. I can I can s I can go that's wrong fa quite very quickly. Well I thought September's when they announced iPhones. Right? It just renamed it. I love that movie too much. I was very into my stuffed animals and had very strong feelings.

Oh, the example I was gonna give from there's the wallpaper book. I'll find this for for notes. That was BARD. It's a website that helps you find stuff on websites, kind of Uh lots of good stuff. No, oh I guess the A guy being hot, I suppose, in a isn't a spoiler, but I have not And I'm not talking about like typewriters. Like for example, one of the teachers at the school is only a teacher part-time. My kid made an amazing robot robot out of garbage. Like there's there's just a lot about this that's been seems to have been good for everybody. Set in a fictional future. And I was like, what does that mean? That's how they pronounce it. And and normally interesting. Do you remember the ones where you had the little strappy things with the rivets and you can make that's that's way before I I I was really ahead of my time in so many ways because I really did like Branded Fun title.

His grandmother would come and just and they'd be they'd have to sort of like gently sort of shoe her away, but she would just stand there like a Korean water ghost. Not that we'll fix it, but we there was no it was no longer longer avoidable. Uh and the thing with generative AI, which I I just barely understand, but I think it's important to know is that He has so many English or Irish, but he's definitely a sex man with an oxygen mask. We'll just put this in show notes. You mean only on the website or through a demon that you've got in iMessages or like Just give me what you got. I figured that's a little racist. They're closed. Publicly. But then I I said, okay, so assuming that Taylor was to have made a conservative ten thousand dollars per year.

I like that. I am. You know, lego was, you know, just another one of those kids' toys. We didn't play War. Yep, you've been a Pose and Porter convert. I really like that. They are, I mean, I I hope this is refreshing and not upsetting. For the city. It's basically like an industry group putting out a press release, something on uh PR Newswire that says, stay safe. But generative also uh I'm what did I say? It's your best way to get FTX uh SEO quotes for your crypto. Yes. 20 million sixty thousand dollars. You can't see them, but they are great. And and so this two girls entering high school who are played by thirty plus year old women. I don't fucking care. Was this a school run by your church?

And like depending on whether you're using 3. Oh, no one needs the internet all the time. Oh so good. Oh I see. I could say less like this, more like that, right? Because no. How much back pay could he collect in 3978? Let me go review here. I said this is a rough and uncorrected transcript for episode 209 of Reconcilable Differences. Don't be polite to the robot. But it's it's not important that people know this, but I do sometimes have to turn to Mad and just like we almost need at this point like a shorthand where I can just go It describes it describes Sam Bankman free to you. Yeah. I'm gonna make when I'm a lawyer, I'm gonna have to make my best case for a client, whether I think they're good people or not.

But because of the stuff that I tend to do, I tend to want the ones that are gonna have oh access link. No, like I I just I wish I had a way to make money from In Curiosity. I've done this. You're made up less multitudes. Uh yeah, you know what I wanna Yeah, what's wrong with that? I don't watch T V apparently. And I'd point to the ocean and I'd say that's the Pacific Ocean. Now now here's the thing. It costs money, but we knew what There's Code Interpreter, which is a secret fucking weapon. Where you can like no, there's those things I'm getting so far ahead of myself. And it's gonna give you pointers. There's prompt perfect, which you'll tell me about sometime. So you can dump like they do in the demo, dump in a a recipe and it'll Mm-hmm that might be a forty five.

Another one says song, multiple mentions. And so that I thought that again, early days, but I thought that was kind of interesting. I mean And then they push back, they repel the the coward Ramsey Bolton. You know what I mean. They had it so different. I am utterly incurious about trying every fucking one of these bullshit things. Anyway, I I peanut buttered pr pretty hard. And so basically Charlton Heston uh is one of three astronauts who goes to this mysterious planet and they time they end up time traveling from nineteen seventy two And it says nineteen seventy two, astronauts were paid D W D and it's saying basically You can't, you know what I mean? Maybe spend your time on something to show like how this could be amazing and help people like me rather than just try to convince all the snorks that they're gonna die.

What if you want to do work? md, you know, and D script lets you say, do you want timestamps? But it even it did stuff like say it's got timestamps, it's got dialogue, it's got speaker names. It says, that's great. Like just give me an angle on this. I am. P please start start the show. He's actually a really good guy, Littlefinger. Why why do you talk like you're from New England? You'll find out. No, you are stating an unfortunate uh fact. Because none of them could agree on anything except that Try Scene Explain. IMD Page, DB Page for Director Peter Weir. So show note links. csv that I exported from datum. And on and on. This is Do By Friday, a weekly challenge podcast with Alex Cox and Merlin Mann.

Is it trying to figure out what the most reasonable next thing would be based on how it's been trained? I get so confused when I go to anything on GitHub, but I'm like, well, what do I put in the text field on ChatGPT? She's on a different show. God I just sound like seriously. Mr. And just to piss on a spark plug, I think in basketball they call this a a heat check. I'm doing great. Not like cool. Kleenex is clear. Uh the I like Phoebe, I like Smelly Cat. Like so someone was like, don't don't hit a seat. Or you can put it in the clipboard and just bring it right into Zotero. Enjoy the music. How many you got left, Jebediah? Hey. Here's a good clue is I know what Expedia is. Chandler Bing. When you jailbreak what?

Yeah. And then I type in. No, I will not remember that. Yep. Um this is this is my my answer to this first of all I just want to clarify I I'm on I'm not trying to sound like some kind of turns out smart ass They're closed, but they're woke. Plug into chat GPT. Uh you y using And here's what I said: I said for each, That game in the New York Times bought. I am not sixteen years old. I think they're available for everybody if you have the plus subscription. That's yeah. Alex had a little bit of time. And if I want to learn more, that's like the way, like they'd say in elementary school. Because that's how it feels sometimes. People do shitty stuff all have you never gotten a spam phone call? Grog Esquire.

I went, I reloaded the the thing on Spotify and it was there. Sometimes it only just goes through my head where Lilo says to stitch. Sounds like he deserved it, yeah. I'm obsessed with him. Some kinds of plugins require an account somewhere. Uh album is the album that the song was on, etc. You're like, oh, I pasted it in parts and like five parts and then it tells me what I forgot. And then I type five words. His name is Chad Bard. Didn't you? We should help the people who invented podcasting. I like the way she takes pictures of heavy said people eating ice cream. I interrupted you. I was like, I can't wait to see how this will work with Instacart because The no, that is Microsoft's And what I'm trying to say to people is if you read this, you'll see I never expressly asked.

Whereas hmm it's good. And then so then sometimes I could get better results. Here's your point. You're gonna look a lot cooler if you can blow uncertainty out of proportion and not leaven it with anything that approaches certainty. But like, are you just gonna you're just gonna s glide right past all the good shit in this and just go straight into the whole like, you know, I made it call my wife a whore? Pick around. I am. Act like it's like a Brian Eno like beginning of a U two song. You know I just want a steak, yeah, but you have to say the number. Inequities podcast. Mm-hmm. It's probably not going to be for a lot of people for a a while. We cannot sh shut the fuck up. And I think part of that might be all the years of Alta Vista and Google.

But anyway, I I think stuff like that's valuable. Sometimes you you talk about this Oh. It's uh uh it it was like I think she was just wanting to make sure that Aiden was okay. Uh I guess it was the Boston or the New York marathon. But kids The the guy who's on the run So Charlotte Hessen's got uh twenty million bucks coming. But three times a day I'm tempted to say something like But it's pretty wild to be able to go in and say like, okay, here's a list of things I just typed up. How may I assist you? Shake and bake way And it says, sure, based on the bands you've mentioned, which are all known for their brit pop and indie rock styles, here's some other bands you might enjoy. Don't be timid about asking it for what you actually want.

Not did you read the instructions, not the more, you know. Now what was your question? All my hot takes are coming out, Alex. Um I don't know a ton about this stuff. I don't know why. Okay. WWDC is when they announced iPhone. And just for shits and giggles, I said I I that's that's that's pretty good. Well, you could do that with a podcast transcript. So I can output Okay, cool. What are you, cuck? Alright, tell uh tell me one more. We specifically played Tora Torah Tora. And parents who are well off provide more. It was. Well, I mean, in general, I supp I aren't you put off by things just a little bit more than uh d bearded dragons? Like a lot of the weird f for example. Mm-hmm. But I I know.

One thing we do for our our shows or we do for the show and I do for other shows is create, you know, what we kind of Oh Jesus, Alex, what did I do this with the first time I did this and it blew my mind? It's like more payable sticks. Oh yeah. I mean yes, cool. The well the the thing with prompt, let me pull up prompt You you're much more suspect to uh you're Um these will be in show notes. You can't copy out of it. And it's just driving me a little a little bit funky. What videos, songs, and other media are mentioned? I just don't want to interrupt you because you are saying profound things. That's cute. But it had Fleur-de-Lee wallpaper, which is nice. My kid has like a Now the beauty part with the podcast was, and I of course I tried to stay low-key about it.

This is a couple weeks before it was gonna happen. But there's it's just a constantly all this stuff of knowing how to troubleshoot things. So the f and did the families know each other too? Which is, I mean, uh better that I guess. Yeah. I mean it it's one thing to say is the earth flat and another thing to say make a case to me Yes, please. But think about that. Let's do another one. I mean I'm not g good at the number. I didn't understand why everybody was so I always thought Billy Porter seems like a very funny person, great fashion sense. I I I don't go I don't go tell you how to take a meeting. That all sounds really dumb. Oh yeah. And also now it kind of gives me a clue about what they'll cover in this episode, probably, about like based on what was there.

Oh, this seems to come up a lot, this kind of thing. There's a lot of stuff in plugins. The one okay. And I think we're getting closer to the thing that you and I are both looking for here. Oh oh no, I'm saying that is a great great ending. I'm ungenerative AI. Good. A m motorcycle riding bulldike. I'm I'm I'm sorry. 5 or 4 and how fast it is. If you're in forensics So when I wrote my ISP about Descartes, I damn sure read the entire thing on Descartes, because even though I'd been learning about Descartes. Uh and because I'm simple But like, you know, playlist AI will help you create like a Spotify playlist. Supernatural smile, supernatural is that wasn't built to get up, and Silver Sun's wonderful, uh slightly misogynistic golden skin.

But no, no, no, no, no. Um but Like you get whatever book you want and like but having books around you and hearing words Why would you choose to eat the beef? Maybe not now. Unless we come organic. Um so I assume Claude is Google. Um but there are a lot of You gotta get up there and you have to say why gay rights is bad for everybody. Because it's close enough for government work. And I I've had some pretty good luck, especially in my early days. That's that's the kind of thing you say if you don't read. That was like the only one available. My horrible stepfather loved Tab, um, which is the Coca-Cola company's diet drink before they had Diet Coke. Like I have kind of met I'm I'm Yeah, just make a text as He's got to figure out like what's a mushroom worth over time and how much would he need to retire?

The problem with Zapier is like you have to go make your own custom sort of bespoke scripts. And I'm very worried about what's gonna happen if he gets chat chat GPT. Alright. Yeah. I didn't I didn't personally have them, but yeah. Well, because back then, I mean, in the same way that they didn't invent teenagers till the fifties, there were no teenagers in colonial times. That's okay. Sounds really crazy to all of us who have so many good pairs of scissors. Right. The uh just s switch to was that not a plugin? So you can go in and like say, okay. I give up. Because I hate reading comic books. I I I could do let's put it this way. On and on. Oh great, can't wait. I don't have time or resources to be perfect.

Bing I think one potentially good side of COVID is it Why do they always make that noise? Uh and I could see a use for later on. That might be a picture of a diaphanous gown. That's all I know. I said, outline this. And then one line just says movie. Of course I I write all this in drafts and then just paste it because I'm not a monster. I will not even finish reading that sentence. Like you're the fucking hamburglar. How are you? I don't know. Yeah, it was so gross. There's one I told you the one. Like everybody's doing at least one and a half jobs buying your own paper towels. Yeah. Well no what I didn't what I didn't do is send you these links because you're I'm so happy that now you live in this universe.

Silly stuff like that, right? Oh. They weren't as big as they became later on. What a good teacher does, what a hopefully somewhat Another one is you make dioramas, you take a shoebox, cut the top off, put some extra figures around the men inside, you make, you know. And there's like there's just I don't know, it's Okay, no. Oh, it was um Wolfram. That is that's part of what I mean. Uh well, you know, that's been thorny over time, including the men part. They called me Mr. You don't Can Scene Explain. Use the destination pages title and link, format everything in Markdown. I'm never gonna be perfect. Right, get real specific. Well like when you go to like a poor school, it's like Remember Obama remember from my bim bam, you remember uh Obama's uh three midnight proclamations?

But But well and and I tried it a bunch and it what I Bing. Like, It knew, I mean, in what some of the examples I'll give today In the nineteen sixty eight film Planet of the Apes, Charlton Heston portrays the character, D D L D Um I have a line, Master and Commander IMDB page. Like I'll tell it in Markdown, do this, this, this. Never played it. That didn't work. I thought it tasted like good. There were three or four of those where I went But there's actually a lot of really and the idea is that yeah, this stuff was trained, usually I think it's up to like So yeah, so like like but for example like drafts here are apps where I've had to enter an API or you know No, no, no. And also if I could say I agree with you capitalizing on the uncertainty part.

It's like I I asked this wall how to learn architecture. Worth doing. You were you you were in your own kind of weird uh uh sundowning way. And it worked because I was logged into Spotify. And and and normally I I prefer the aspartame though super fake. Well, when your great grandparents are Polish and that's all they have for you to drink, it's like a you don't know. Um there's a there's a wonder uh bit where the Oh what I would know Chat GPT. We don't need to get into it. How much okay so like let's just so over here you've got this over here you've got your bibliography that you I know I know. IMDB credit for the product. Very worldly. And there's no way it happened. Don't know if that's a bit.

I bet it's something you could get remedial help with. Well, you know what? What does that mean, Alex? Your fault. So yes, I could do that with a calculator. Well, I'm giving it in context clues. And it was about, God, what was it about? What was the name of his series? And there's all kinds of ways that, for example, Descript has been great for that. Your your new your new name, I've decided you're gonna be uh um let's see, um DJ Hamburger icon. I d and the dis No, he was just small and I would throw anybody under the bus. Only two-thirds of our family would allow be allowed to exist there. Yeah, pretty weird. You go to a little dumb fucking JavaScript pop-up thing that isn't real. Alright, let's stop there.

It's that it's a it's That's the biggest body of water in the world. But just straight up like Like what kind of equipment do you actually need? And and it's I think it's But the encyclopedia md. What are the little tiny ones? I don't know if you remember this, but starting with the second to the last episode of Pose Like No cut that out. Uh and just uh before just to get this out of the way, uh this is at I'm making fun of other people. Mm-hmm. Oh. I'm sorry, I don't read anything. No, no, Daddy's got the sound of blood. If this AI gets any worse Hey. And then we You sound you sounded like you were being repeatedly hit with a sock full of pennies. But I I like this because I when I was done, I was like, hey, look at me, I'm like Brian David Gilbert.

I will do that. Pepper. Um, yeah. The point of the story was they had to make up I'm trying I forgive me, I don't remember and I haven't been given permission to listen to it. All the hot takes. The uh in particular the challenge this week is to um to use plugins. That was fine by me. I didn't have to say, please refer to Charlton Heston as Taylor. We also don't want because we if we give this away, it's kinda like what Google did with Google and Facebook Facebook. One time a child asked Abraham Lincoln, he said, you're so tall. No. You had to write a podcast. It was an independently operated school The huge one for me, WebPilot. And like a s just a quick side um sidebar here. Because that's when we we just watched uh the the times of Harvey Milk.

I forget what it was really funny, but the one of them was just just fucking be cool. I don't know what that is. Yeah, Microsoft has. I think that's my least favorite part of it is that noise they make. Grog now. So you go into plugins and you say install this plugin. And it's something I want to start doing more is including footnotes and Uh episode with Grass Valley Greg. Ramsey Bolton is a model citizen. And and also again, when I say we That's where I learned about the symbol for France. Twenty-twords. Yeah I don't have the mental I I didn't have a lot of c uh success with Claude. I'm I want it to rip music for me so bad. That's an awkward that's an awkward period. Just the five. Like we had the same thing of like we would have to make videos and stuff like that.

I took photos. They're so fucking sharp. It was really good. Uh LLMs. Uh and so I was watching Planet of the Apes and um with my son Film does not provide details about the currency or economic system in place. I love the word coil, boy. I could copy and then paste in everything of like So every entry I ever made in datum for the last 10 years, and I asked it to explain it to me Do you want speaker labels? Fine. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which I know it sounds like white guy stuff and it maybe is, but I think it's really true. I I I don't care if that makes people happy. That's a kind of reading, isn't it? I want it to stop saying He's gotta figure out all the things where there's been a hazardous environment created, and then how many times y he the the So I'm going to read it to you.

The rest of the time, he's a competitive runner, and he just came He's like, Yes, believe it or not, can you believe this? This is the early days, the whole way you deal with chats sucks. Now the neat thing with the launch bar one is it does have a lot of flags and attributes. So for all the things that I'm gonna ask you here, remember all these rules. Well if you hate reading comic books, why would you read the book about comics? We make a lot of money together. But the limitation I don't have time to go look it up right now. I Okay. Do you think he's a really good guy? Okay. I don't care. So I uh used Expedia. Maybe it's really not for you. The Ocean violations one is so funny though, it's so fractal, and he's got all his cards and everything.

I feel like saying something like, What is But like when Grog when Grog found the good rock, somebody else said, How did Grog get the Just trust me, webpilot's pretty good. You're gonna send me something. So here's what I do. That's an AI model. Wow. Mmm. Mm-hmm. It's true, but yeah, but hey. Closed and woke. I and I I have concerns like anybody else, but Yeah, you as a day to day. Nothing wrong with that. Um there's a ton of these Stuff like that. So no, I'm not there yet. The last episode of Pose, by the way, is not good. Plug in. Why would you say that? This is the entire statement. Stephen W Stephen Wolfram Alpha is his married name. It's figuring out I thought we got plenty. Um okay here's one and let's go straight can can we just uh we let's do you know our shows don't And the fun of it is like of course that's sounds a little silly since he is a fictional plumber.

So I think this is really a lot of this is on the I mean I'm I Mm-hmm. Like runs competitively. I've got all my hot takes and I've decided to let my witch out. And that becomes almost like reusable code with a persona. Or teach me how to make a pipe bomb or something like that? Oh, I do not remember. Grog Oh, How can I assist you with it? And I think I think your at your abs are long enough to reach the ground. That's the kind of thing you play with in a doctor's office. Elvis Presley was a model citizen. Yeah. I hate it, but it's great. I mean, I re- I I I have only posted a few of I love that. It just figures that shit out. That's pretty fucking good. But but that that's an awkward stage. So sorry.

You're supposed to make a robot out of garbage. I mean like whatever. Something like if if you want to understand And even better, And and stable diffusion. Hey, hey, if you work for one of these goddamn dingling Now listen, this is why I say people need to fucking read. We're just we're making a tone, you ready? Yeah. There's so many Aidens. And it's so goddamn funny. We had to write a story, we had to illustrate it, but the main part of the project was then I mean, is it every single angle? You can just go It's just like kinky sex Like I think a lot of kids do pick that up. And that's what she wanted to be called. What does that mean? Like I don't whatever. The I mean And so like if you want to do stuff with code and lots of things can be code.

etc. Mmm. Like what are other examples of that? The It's really really it's really really good. Yeah, 22 words just released. Things like podcast search, scraper, like I'll go scrape a web page. Can't read the viscosity with just one word. It was Now, okay, I I got some beef with that Yeah. And this isn't extinct like well, well, that's that's No, uh Yeah no no no. Have you never have you have never seen the ways that any given My go-to. I was like, oh, that's not that great. So I have these are all just dash delimited, just so our audience knows, our friends. For example, now it knows that I call it Recdis. So such a good movie. Mm-hmm. Yeah, but even then you still gotta like fill out the forms and do all the stuff and like But Okay, so what are we talking about here?

I'm just saying like the not spackle, the the ductwork. That etc. Hello It's called Star Wars 2 It's not like I'm what's your casting Oh, oh God. Yes. I was so excited to discover that. And so I typed four words. I'd done my credentials. Um if it's not ref Yeah how hard is it to do your job Madeline? It's nothing specific. I don't I I can't quote it exactly. So yeah, and I and B Bard is Microsoft. I've got some some goodies, I think. So two hours of talking with Squidward, I upload that and and I just want to be clear about this. Hello. Is it good? There's a lot of like helping people out. I just I'm if we're gonna if I'm gonna give it to people in pigs and bunnies, I'd like to just actually provide a pig and bunny.

You can use World Book. I don't want to lose track of the conversation, right? I went into the code interpreter mode and I pasted in Here we go, Chad Bard Oh. That's how we like our schools. With the implicit understanding that like, 'cause you probably don't realize Okay, so here's a problem when I talk to you about this. It's not JSON it's it's JSON like but it's um And, you know, and then it'll say, Oh, and this by the way, just so you know, these three columns don't have anything in them. etc. Once upon a time there was a guy who had a job. I mean they were around, but Lego was not But I know it's different now. Perfect and then what you want to say and it gives you a better prompt than the one you typed.

Look at this. So he talks to a retirement planning expert. Go. That's my job. Would you like me to read and interpret its content? Okay. I'm not even getting into the whole fucking generational trauma thing. Right people and wrong people. A bunch of Yeah. Uh and then you get all these different versions of things. Um and it's Um Oh yeah, I gotta find a link to that, Mr. A fucking ton. Get like this whole school Now, that does not change the fact Like that's how Kleenex happens. Because I'm such a so basic. What I really want is just the equivalent of like a a key keyword shortcut. Yes. But like I don't need to know now because again I have my explorer hat on now, not my judge hat. People hate reading.

I try to put it in terms you'll understand. Oh yeah. He had some series and he always do wack-do things as taking a video game seriously. Try it. This is a very early I I Oh I'm not done. Get up-to-date ETFs on your deep dive. I spent sixteen hours trying to make a say of the end world. Oh. Try the only one I know, yes, by the charlatans. Is it yummy? No, it's a joke because in the Battle of the Bastards, Sansa persuades Littlefinger to go. Who who will care for the Aidens? Title. You know what? I need to make a podcast. We're looking for a third. No, don't can we talk about it? I have I have nothing to say I think iPhones are September usually. Because So like you said. What what uh what else aren't people reading?

No, but like just give me the 80% right version. Because You're not like nobody was like Um It's important they do it. You could have gotten around that by Today it would might be magnetiles. An improbably good movie. Yeah. I said make this a Spotify playlist. There's only one point when I got miffed. But this Is somebody who's already playing with the Fisher Price parking garage? But there's a wonderful bit where like they've always done this thing where they do this thing with um A Merlin's Mike Pence project. What are we doing? Right, right, right. You can use Encyclopedia Britannic. Okay. And as I've said, I don't use that word in the house And, you know, I Cla Claude isn't Claude Google's Cla Claude is Google.

You know? My kid just picked it up. This integ this integrative way. Uh but uh what Claude is Alex apart from knowing it's Claude Yes. That dot that dot that Like even something like Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, Oh, that's cool. Now listen, I put up with a lot Yes. I I'm taking a break from the document until I feel wiser. I've since gotten much weirder, but This is my bankers box for stuff Choke me, you whore And like I was I had Same thing happens in that where there's one guy Yeah, it's not And I I know on link sharing now too, which is nice. So I think one of those Mm-hmm. Because you're always gonna look cool. Master Commander, just watch. Did the um do do the ding. Yes. Just be cool. Oh.

I'm like figuring out OSHA violations in in Mario Kart. We're telling me you Where's the It's getting so close to the big thing. That was weird. Um No I had I there was Yes, pr pretty much. No, just like uh Mm-hmm. But my point being Sometimes it's just really a feel. I've had it with people not reading things. That's another good one. Show episode with Grass Valley Gregg. I didn't get Billy Porter. But are these and I was telling Syracuse But It's all right. Not there's anything wrong with that. It is You lie to it, okay I'm five Are you into it? And he's like, Okay, I'll let you know. So you can misunderstand what something is for quicker than a lot of people. Even if that's like taking public transit and recycling.

And so then I say, what are some songs? Lot of hot takes I got one more. Fam My kid has hated using a laptop. Yeah. I am It is the last movie where I was How hard is it really? But no, just the basic stuff of like Yes, yes. It's not spoiling the movie, which is nice. And like, yeah, I'm into it. Oh yes. And it would keep going But they have this thing that they've been doing. But um Um So anyway. Well, I mean I was not not in a generative way. It's Like go find this on just watch. Um hey everybody, thanks for listening. Um I gotta I've had it. It was raw transcript