David Epstein

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582 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 10 Sep

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It's very interesting to have a tool that still is often wrong.

And yet is very useful.

So I I I think it's really helpful if people are being a little bit of an anthropologist about it and really going in there and messing around.

Because you do start to get a sense.

Of where it goes right and wrong.

Like, I had a recent experience.

where I was talking to an LLM and it brought up a fact that is pretty obscure about the number of pen pals that Charles Darwin had.

And he had a huge

number of pen pals because mainly what he was doing was synthesizing other people's research.

And I'm like, wow, I know that fact, but not many people would know that.

And then it cited, and then it got into the research on this and it cited a a particular famous researcher named Howard Gardner.

And I said, he is a creativity researcher, and that's a right fact about Darwin, but he didn't do that work.

So it conflated these things.

And I said, What's your source for that?

And the source was me.

Somebody had posted an excerpt from something in range.

conflated things that were in nearby paragraphs and kind of smooshed them together in a way that was

plausible but not right.

And that every time I see that sort of thing, it's a little bit of a wake up call that these things are incredible.

And also there's all these edge cases that we really need to be playing with to try to understand.

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