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371: ‘The Skin of Your Pants’, With Daniel Jalkut

The Talk Show With John Gruber

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The Infinite Possibilities of AI

There's something about the infinite possibilities with an undefined interface that makes it really compelling to keep trying new things. The text stuff has been a little more compelling, not just because I think I'm also a little more text oriented, but because the format is, it's more humane. Whereas the chat things are literally trying to come across as human personalities, which is really interesting. You could ask it to render an image of Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes peeing on a box copy of Microsoft Windows or something, but it's not the same thing as getting the chat thing to badmouth it and say... Right.

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