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Cal Newport

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Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

It had full access to it, right?

Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

You can search this.

Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

It's in the public domain so that the actual story is everywhere.

Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

So I had just naively assumed that

Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

If you ask it for some information that exists on the internet that, oh, it'll just go find it and format it for you, it didn't.

Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

And then I went through a whole dialogue with it where I was like, this is not the right quote.

Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

And it's like, yeah, you're right.

Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

You know what?

Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

I thought you meant, paraphrase the quote, here it is, made up.

Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

I was like, that's not the real quote.

Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

Can you go...

Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

get the real quote and give it at this point I was just experimenting I'd already filled it in the article and they're like you're right you know I was being hasty here you go I could not get it to give me the real quote so anyway so I learned my lesson I was like oh don't assume even if it's common information that it has access to dude the desire the desire to fucking reprimand an LLM and I've shouted at them capital letter exclamation marks it's like what what are you doing

Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

It will.

Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

I mean, the way I think about LLM-based AI versus more advanced AI that we don't know how to do yet is, you know, my theory is what is being affected is going to be more narrow at first.

Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

It's going to be places where there's an exact match between what generative AI existing tools can do.

Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

and existing market sectors.

Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

We saw this actually, the week we're recording this, we actually saw this reflected in the stock market.

Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

It was this interesting paradox that was going on this week where the stock price of software companies

Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

that deal with stuff that is well-suited for an LLM went down.

Modern Wisdom
#1067 - Cal Newport - The collapse of modern attention (and how to get it back)

They call it the SaaS apocalypse, right?