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Stephen Dubner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
9813 total appearances

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

So you just had your first experience as well?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

Can I tell you what engine we're using with chat?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

So I happen to use one called Perplexity because I like it.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

It's a really simple interface that pulls from a lot of models, which I think is probably valuable.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

What I like about it is you can push it subtly and it keeps coming.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

If I say, tell me five interesting things about Dax Shepard, it'll give me blah, blah, blah.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

And I say, well, those are fine, but I know those.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

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.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

It could be, I want more emotional stuff.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

I want more moto racing.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

So I feel it's a great research tool.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

Now, it's not a substitute.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

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.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

People will now stop playing chess.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

And in fact, that had the opposite effect

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

because no one wants to watch two machines play each other.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Stephen Dubner Returns Again

I guess I could think on it more, but my first response would say, not only is it not unethical, because...