Stephen Dubner
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So you just had your first experience as well?
Can I tell you what engine we're using with chat?
So I happen to use one called Perplexity because I like it.
It's a really simple interface that pulls from a lot of models, which I think is probably valuable.
What I like about it is you can push it subtly and it keeps coming.
If I say, tell me five interesting things about Dax Shepard, it'll give me blah, blah, blah.
And I say, well, those are fine, but I know those.
And I want something more along the lines of X, Y, or Z. But the X, Y, or Z could be like animal, mineral, or vegetable.
It could be, I want more emotional stuff.
I want more moto racing.
So I feel it's a great research tool.
Now, it's not a substitute.
It's like when computers started beating humans in chess and Go, which is very complicated years ago, people were, as they always are, worried with these new technologies.
People will now stop playing chess.
And in fact, that had the opposite effect
because no one wants to watch two machines play each other.
We like humans.
You may like me.
For him?
I guess I could think on it more, but my first response would say, not only is it not unethical, because...