Cal Newport
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And it was on Isaac Asimov's Rules of Robotics.
This was a New Yorker essay.
And I left my copy of iRobot.
I was here in my studio and I left it at home.
I was like, oh, I needed to add this quote.
I left it and I was like, oh, you know what?
That story's in the public domain.
It's all over the internet.
And this seems like it would be perfect for ChatGPT.
Like, hey, can you just grab a copy and
find me that quote.
And that'll save me a little bit of time.
Like, yeah, here it is.
Here's the quote.
I was like, yeah, that's roughly I remember I put in there.
And then the fact checker was like, where's this quote from?
I was like, yeah, it's from the story or whatever.
I get the book.
It had just hallucinated a quote that was more or less like what was said, right?
Because again, it's kind of playing the game of this is the type of text that would make sense giving the prompt, but it wasn't the actual quote.