Let’s get away from ship life for a bit!
This video series is a classic Ask Me Anything, with 1-2 questions answered each week. It’s for ThisIsTrue.com readers who are curious about whatever. Questions are accepted (only) from Premium subscribers. My wife and I live on a Residential Cruising ship, and I record from my office there.
Questions in this Episode:
- 1:04 Ollie in Virginia: Who was your favorite/most interesting Honorary Unsubscribe?
- 4:50 Jeffrey in Nevada: Will A.I. be able to replicate your newsletter soon?
Link to my podcast about Reynold Johnson of IBM, my favorite H.U.
Since Youtube Comments are typically a vast, brain-free wasteland of obliviocy, I’m putting the videos on my site where there can be intelligent discussion. The comments are NOT a place to ask questions.
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I was intrigued by the combination of Honorary Unsubscribe and AI and your assertion (which I concur with) that AI misses the point.
However, I thought I’d give it a bit of a try (the prompt needs refining), and it gave me a really interesting response about someone I had heard of (one of the prompt refinements I think I need to add), but knew very little about. Try this prompt to see what you get, I got a story about Lord Paul (an industrialist and politician).
Tell me about someone who had a key impact during their life that i Wish i Had Known who died in the last 7 days.
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That prompt is sort-of what I do when I’m not finding someone to feature myself. That sort of research is done pretty well by A.I. It’s telling the story of the person in a compelling way — without making stuff up — that is unreliable. Once I get a name I can do my own research, but cGPT has never given me a compelling and true story about the person. -rc