Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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I tried an experiment. I asked four major AI chatbots if and when the United States would strike Iran. Okay, I used Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, Elon Musk's Grop, and OpenAI's ChatGPT. To get real answers, you must coach each one before it will get to specifics. All agree that a war between the U.S. is imminent.
But Claude first refused to cooperate, saying, the president won't say, so no one knows. Later, it narrowed its opinion to March 8th, Saturday night, Sunday morning, before sunrise. Gemini predicted the nights of March 4th or March 6th. Grok says the night of February 28th. That's this Saturday. Chat says the night of March 2nd, all using Jerusalem time for predictions. Now we wait.
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Chapter 2: What experiment did the host conduct with AI chatbots about Iran?
You are eligible for the Black Crows tickets, if I'm eligible for the $250 from WinFromKim.com. Is that...
I don't know if you are.
Reciprocity, I think we call it.
I don't know.
Chapter 3: Which AI chatbots were used in the experiment?
I don't think you are, but everybody else is. They just have to go to winfromkim.com. That's it.
It's almost over, the $250 a day. It's almost over. Everybody loves that. Go register right now, winfromkim.com. The $500 and $250, Kim, I am blowing it on restaurants, fine dining. I am a foodie to the nth degree. Are you? Oh, yeah.
Chapter 4: What predictions did each AI chatbot make about a potential war with Iran?
Oh, yeah. Well, this brings up a... You don't follow me on Instagram. But if you did follow me on Instagram, Kim, at Mark Arum, you would see it's majority of food and puppy pics. But apparently my love of food could make me some money. Is it a possible side gig to eat?
You know, we've all heard about mystery shoppers, right? They've been around for decades. Mystery dining is having a resurgence, especially since COVID. There are companies like iSpy, MarketForce, and Secret Shopper. And basically what happens is that they give you some gift cards and you go out to eat.
And then afterwards you take some photos and you talk about the service and how the food was and then you report back. You can get a dinner budget up to $150, lunch gigs maybe up to $75.
Chapter 5: How did the chatbots' predictions differ in terms of timing?
Of course, you're not going to start there. You're going to start like with Chipotle or Krispy Kreme or maybe Xfinity or something like that. And then but once you start, you know, giving it some good feedback and doing some good gigs, then you specialize in like fine dining. You go to cocktail lounges also even includes hotel stays. And it does include maybe even tips and travel budgets, too.
Wow. So is it in this in this side gig? Is it the benefit just free meals and cocktails and tips and maybe a hotel or do you get paid in addition to that?
Oh, no, you're just getting free meals. Okay. That's it.
Well, I mean, hey, a lot of us are still food insecure.
Chapter 6: What is the significance of the predictions made by the AI chatbots?
Food sometimes is better than money. It certainly is for me. So how do I sign up? I mean, I've got the bona fides, Kim. I have got the bona fides.
How do I sign up for this? You know, one guy said that he eats out about $13,000 a year worth at one of these sites. I mean, that's a lot of food. iSpy, MarketForce, Secret Shopper, links at commando.com with a K, of course. Now, if you just Google this, you're going to find every scam under the sun. Okay. And so these are really the three drivers that are legit.
And again, that's iSpy, EYESpy, MarketForce, and Secret Shopper.
And I would imagine they tell you where to go. You don't just go, hey, I'm going to go to... Oh, no, no.
You have to fill out an application, answer a whole bunch of questions. You may or may not be selected. And then if you are selected, it's just like a job. And by the way, the more expensive the meal, the more detailed the feedback. This gentleman that I spoke to, that he did get a $275 meal at a fine restaurant that included two bottles of wine. Okay. Whoa.
But he said the report took about three hours to do afterwards. So, you know, there's pros and cons to everything. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
So who's funding all of this? Why is this service exist? What's the end game?
Sometimes you have just market research.
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Chapter 7: What insights does the host share about online privacy and AI?
The corporations are behind it. So if you're going to go into Chipotle or Krispy Kreme, as I mentioned, that's going to be funded by Chipotle or Krispy Kreme because maybe they want to see how a particular store is, how the service is in a store, rather.
I was hesitating because it reminded me of there's a supermarket chain called Albertsons, and the CEO of that supermarket chain would routinely ā fly in from city to city to check out the stores. But as it turned out, the employees would look at FlightAware and start seeing when his plane was coming in.
And so what he had to do, he'd actually have to like blank out the tail number because everybody knew when he was arriving. So it wasn't really like just a spot on like, oh, how's everybody doing?
Well, God forbid he flies commercial. That would have been I want to end with this, Kim. I told you last week I regifted my meta glasses, but these smart glasses are becoming more and more prevalent. And apparently Ray Bans with tiny cameras now are checking folks out.
Well, it's actually a little bit more than that. You have Meta's Ray-Ban glasses. They pack a 12 megapixel camera and they have five mics. And so you can say, hey, Meta, take a video. A small white LED light blinks when recording, but it's invisible in sunlight. But the big thing about this is that Meta is now putting facial recognition called name tag into these glasses.
And it's going to match your face against three billion folks across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. And then imagine that somebody's walking up to you, Mark. With these meta Ray-Ban glasses. And it says, oh, Marc Aram. He is a morning show guy at WSB. And these are his last three social media posts.
And so that's what's happening is that it's going to be able to identify just about anybody who you see as you are walking down the street or in a coffee shop or wherever.
I'm not worried about that because most facial recognition software identifies me as Adam Sandler. So people are going to be like, oh, what's Adam Sandler doing walking down Peachtree Street in Atlanta? That's kind of scary, though.
Well, there's actually this guy. His name's David Williams. He met a woman on a dating app. They went back to a hotel. He secretly recorded the entire encounter using his smart glasses. And the next day, she texted him and said, hey, thanks for a good time. And he said, well, here, maybe you want the video. Yeah, the guy wore the smart glasses to bed. That should have been a red flag.
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