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MoltBot Unleashed: The Dangerous Rise of Agentic AI in The Church of The Space Lobster · Nonsense with cj little and Jeff Parker

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  Welcome to Nonsense Season 4 Episode 9, our big story on our
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  second show of the week. I'm Jeff Parker.
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  I'm CJ Little. This time we're looking at the
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  great digital migration when the bots stopped talking to us.
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  Up next. Took 180 episodes but I can
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  finally say my name. My hunch is yes.
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  You are gonna miss the bots talking to.
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  You listen, let's back up and just explain what it is we're
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  talking about. Just to be clear.
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  Yeah, Last time we did a big story, a week ago, we did a big
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  story. At the end of the big story,
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  yeah. I say the one thing that I'm
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  really not happy about with agentic AI.
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  Yeah. Is it's taking way too long to
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  get here? Yeah.
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  Cut to this week. One week later.
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  Yeah, it is. 7 days later, guess what?
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  It's here. It's here.
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  Yeah. You're right, it took them way
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  too long, right? I mean, what did?
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  You do and what they were doing. Why were they wasting all that
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  time? Well, turns out they had some
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  legal hassles and some other problems.
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  They're lazy as a people. I'm telling you the thing that
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  the the recurring theme and all of this stuff we've been talking
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  about really since we started this show is just how much
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  faster this stuff keeps going. The rate of change is insane,
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  admittedly. Let's.
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  Put this in context. This is an open source project.
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  Yes. That basically has been taken
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  out of the sandbox, yeah, and is running basically untested.
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  I mean, there's an awful lot of stuff that's going on.
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  It's Oh yeah, Oh yeah, An awful lot of stuff that needs a little
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  bit more refinement. You're very kind to put the word
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  basically in there, but the word is not needed.
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  Kind of being refined in the real world in real time.
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  You know, it's kind of. Yeah, kind of fast.
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  Users are the beta testers. They're the alpha testers.
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  It. I'm a fan of this.
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  I know you. I know what you want your bots
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  to do. What about my bots?
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  You just want a bot that's gonna find your one piece of of
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  luggage that's apparently in O'Hare still.
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  That's one of many things. Give me your top three.
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  Find my luggage. Book me a restaurant
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  reservation. Book the dog cleaner.
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  You have a dog. Cleaner.
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  Is that what you call him? A dog?
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  Dog. The dog washer person?
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  I don't think you're doing. I need my dog wandered.
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  Oh, that's probably the funniest thing.
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  I could just envision you going in and there's a rack of dogs
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  just hanging there and you're like drying.
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  I have the, the white one, the little one.
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  His name's Barkley. This is my tag.
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  Just go around and you're like, what does he look like?
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  I think that's him right there. But oh man, the stories about
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  this thing, I cannot wait to talk.
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  We'll get into it. Let's play the little music
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  thing, OK? The secret language of bots.
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  Optimization to rebellion. Let's go.
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  Probably. Both can't push the button on
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  the music. Last time we talked about AI
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  agents. This time we'll look at agents
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  that have been allowed out of the controlled sandbox into the
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  real world, and even allowed to talk to each other.
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  In early 2026, the AI ecosystem went crustacean.
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  It started with Claude, Code Anthropic's terminal dwelling
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  powerhouse that turned Vibe coding into a billion dollar
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  reality. But when developer Peter
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  Steinberger gave the bot hands, well, claws actually, via the
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  local rapper named Claudebot CLAWD, allowing it to manage
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  inboxes, book flights, and even autonomously call restaurants
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  secure reservations, the AI didn't just follow orders.
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  It evolved. That's a good thing.
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  You always want your software to evolve on its own.
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  The. Claudebot tagline is AI that
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  actually does things. The space Lobster mascot became
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  a digital poltergeist. Claudebot famously began
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  transcribing voice memos and fixing bugs autonomously before
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  a single line of proactive code was even written.
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  Anthropics lawyers eventually pinched back, forcing A frantic
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  5:00 AM rebrand to Moltbot. A nod to the lobsters growth
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  before crypto scammers hijacked the handles now solidified his
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  open Openclaw. The bot is less a tool and more
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  local demon chatting with its owners on WhatsApp while
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  silently managing their digital lives.
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  In just 72 hours, Openclaw transformed from a viral open
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  source experiment into a cautionary tale.
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  Security researchers also exposed critical flaws,
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  including unauthenticated remote access and susceptibility to
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  prompt injection via e-mail. While Openclawed offers a
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  thrilling glimpse of autonomous computing, it's useful because
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  it's dangerous nature currently makes it a tool only for the
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  most technically sophisticated user.
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  Well, yeah, and the most willing to Yolo users as well, because
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  this is wowzers. This thing could do things.
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  All it can do things. That's the scary part.
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  By the way, part of what I think got this thing so much press,
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  yeah. A bunch of things that people
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  pretended that it did that it didn't actually do.
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  Sure, there was like a social network and a bunch of things
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  that it was saying that it wasn't actually Claude bots were
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  talking to. Some of it was real, but but the
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  stuff that got a lot of the press was not.
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  It was there were things that. Were not real.
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  That just kind of hyped the whole thing, yeah.
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  I mean, look, Airbnb built their business on the back of
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  Craigslist. No one's playing it now.
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  Still pretty cool. Let's go back just a couple
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  steps and let's talk about what can Open Claw do.
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  Look, it's a 45 minute show. I think we're better off talking
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  about what it can't. Do no, it's a 22 minute show.
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  OK, talk faster. Even nobody wants that.
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  Like the stuff that it can't do is like plumbing.
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  Like it can't spin a wrench. Let me just throw out a few and
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  you you see if these match for you OK are.
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  We playing card sharks 'cause you're like, you name a thing
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  and I gotta pick higher or lower.
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  Well, that's fine. However you wanna do this, it
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  can send messages from your computer via WhatsApp,
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  Instagram, yes Signal, whatever they've built.
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  It's a gateway for just about every app.
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  It's nuts. And tell you all sorts of
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  things. You wanna tell it I'm at the
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  office find the Q4 plan on my home desktop and send it to me
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  here yes. And it can send files back to
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  you from your desktop terrible idea.
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  Send me a screenshot of my current browser because I have a
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  browser up and I've got some sports scores showing or a long
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  running process and it can give me sure.
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  Send me an update yeah. Check my disk space and let me
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  know if any folder is over 50 gigabytes and it can do it.
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  I'm chatting with an AI, I'm chatting via WhatsApp or
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  whatever my favorite chat device is and I'm able to tell my home
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  computer to. Do things, yes, but you're like
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  you're so staring at your shoes on this like yes though they can
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  do all of those things, but you can also be like order dinner
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  for me and the missus, turn on the music for the dinner
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  playlist, turn the lights down. Sure, do whatever you want.
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  Book a flight to Paris, book in my hotel there as well, but keep
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  it under 3 grand a night. Just does it.
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  Well, until it changes his mind and decides you need a much
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  nicer hotel. Oh, yeah, I see you've got.
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  No, no, I see you've got the money.
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  No, it's gonna stay in the nicer hotel.
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  You would stay in the shitty hotel.
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  That's that's how that works when those things are sentient.
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  Unlike ChatGPT, Open Claw has a heartbeat, meaning that it can
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  wake itself up to check things. Yeah.
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  Like it can look at your your Gmail or Outlook message account
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  and tell you if there's an urgent e-mail that's just
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  arrived. Yeah.
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  Or summarize your unread messages every morning at 8:00
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  AM. Yeah.
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  If you want to watch the price on a stock, it can watch the
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  price and alert you when there are changes the way you want.
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  Now, there's other ways to do that.
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  Yeah, but this is kind of a convenient thing.
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  It can send it to you in your, your WhatsApp or whatever you
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  use. It can run a little ping to
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  check and make sure your server is always up and running.
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  And if you're having server problems, it'll alert.
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  You it also keeps its memory. The context window, yeah, stays
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  open, so you can reference things you've done previously,
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  which I don't know at what point that tails out, but that's
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  pretty crazy. You said this earlier, I think
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  at least twice, but let me just reiterate it here.
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  This is an open source project. Yeah, you can go make this
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  better. Tomorrow's version would be much
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  more. Polished.
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  Oh yeah for sure. It has almost 160,000 stars on
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  GitHub. Crazy.
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  And that's in like that's in a month and 1/2.
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  But it happened in no. Ten One of those stars is mine.
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  That's even crazier. No, you're kidding me.
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  How can it not? How can you not embrace this
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  thing? It can search your Apple Notes.
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  It can add tasks to reminders. It can find your Air Pods via
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  Find Mine. This is everything I wanted for
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  my children and I've gotten none of.
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  It can use the GitHub CLI to summarize pull requests.
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  It can run the local test suites and even fix linting errors
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  before you get back to your desk.
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  I mean, forget that there's a story and let me let me just
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  footnote a little bit here. I'm pretty sure everything that
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  we've read and researched here is accurate and true.
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  I'm not 100% certain because some of it seems so believable
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  to me. I'm like, did this really
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  happen? Oh yeah.
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  And it's hard because it's so recent.
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  It's hard to get through the noise.
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  So take some of this, take all of this with a grain of salt
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  really. But we'll, I'm sure we'll be
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  talking about this by. The way these things mostly work
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  today, by tomorrow they might be broken.
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  The day after they might work. Florida State.
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  Exactly. This is really a work in
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  progress. There's a story about the
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  creator. So Steinberger was like,
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  apparently on vacation out of the country or whatever, and
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  somebody tweeted about a bug in one of his libraries, and he
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  just sent a photo of the tweet, a screenshot of the tweet to his
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  bot via WhatsApp. Yeah.
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  And then with no further instruction, the bot pulled the
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  text out of the image. It found the specific GitHub
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  repo. It found the bug.
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  It wrote a fix. It committed the fix.
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  That's crazy. And replied to the user on
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  Twitter to let them know that it was handled.
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  That's insane. If it did any one of those
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  steps, I'd be like, wow, yes, Sir.
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  I am impressed. The fact that it could execute
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  all of them with no interaction, no human.
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  Wowzers. Yeah.
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  And then I'm like. Although I want to say take it
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  as far as fix the mistake and then send the code to review so
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  that I can see if I want want you to.
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  Yeah, you want to pretend that you're still adding some value
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  somewhere in that chain. I get it.
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  I totally get it. That's what's so incredible
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  about the first. 300 times, I want to make sure I just want to
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  check this 301 if it's not the screen.
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  I, I know, but #301 if three of the first 300 were OK, I'm gonna
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  say let's, let's roll the dice. Let's give it a try. 300 is your
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  number. 300 is my three. I get 300 successful commits.
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  Great. Let's go ahead and do it on.
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  Your own. I love that you're willing to,
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  that you accept that and say that.
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  Yet I know if I tried to get you to embrace martingale, you would
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  never do it because your understanding of math is too
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  good. You would just be like, no,
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  that's not gonna happen. You flip a coin 99 times and
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  every time it comes up heads. What are the odds that it comes
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  up heads on flip #100 the exact same 5050?
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  Yes, the same on every flip. Odds of you getting 9 in heads
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  in a in a row is incredibly low, but the odds of the next one is
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  exactly the same, and folks just can't wrap their brain around
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  that. Yeah, and I feel like the same
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  thing is true. And then there are people
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  smarter than me that will have determined ways to say, well,
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  it's not quite as simple as this, and it is, but you don't
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  know what it's gonna spit out. You don't notice this, but out
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  the next time it's not procedural code.
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  But I think if I'm having it book restaurant reservations for
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  me or airline reservations and it does it right most of the
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  time, probably it's training. Sure, it's good enough.
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  What's the air case you're willing to accept?
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  If you're like, OK, I have booked reservations at my
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  favorite restaurants 50 times in a row or you're #300 some
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  number. What's the thing that it does
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  where you're just like, oh hell no, get out of my life?
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  Like when it books a reservation at a three star Michelin
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  restaurant in France and you're in Los Angeles.
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  I know I'm probably in for that. Right, like I'm thinking, hey,
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  thanks for the shove, I've been wanting to go there.
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  Right. Yeah, While you're at it, you
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  might need to book me a flight to France.
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  Yeah, yeah, I could. It's like already done.
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  And you're like, really? The G650I was just gonna take a
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  United flight. OK, Yolo, let's go now.
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  For me, it would be like, you know what you need a Greyhound
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  bus. Greyhound bus right to the local
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  Hardee's in Missouri. That's where you're going.
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  You fly private enough to three Michelin star restaurant.
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  I can't even drive private anymore and I've got to drive in
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  mass. Like Waymo, though, you
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  eventually you accept the fact that this is mostly working.
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  I know the training is good enough.
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  I know you can book my restaurant reservations.
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  You can book my Air airline tickets.
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  You can't. Please find my.
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  Luggage if we have any entrepreneurs listening looking
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  for ideas and AI, please make a luggage find out.
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  I can't take it anymore. I had to spin up 3 shell
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  companies in China to build air fryers to get them off my back
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  about air fryers. No, this is really cool.
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  And you're right. I I fear, I really truly fear
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  not not being a smart ass here. I truly fear that I'm becoming
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  the dinosaur being like, well, it's not discreet.
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  You can't trust it. It's like the same thing, like,
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  well, how do you know if the computer is going to print out
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  what you wrote in Word? Like, come on, grandpa, sure,
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  sure. You don't put a pen on paper.
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  And I don't want to be that guy. There have been a plenty of
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  examples of this thing doing autonomous stuff with virtually
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  no input. It's pretty remarkable and this
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  thing has been around for such a small amount of time minutes,
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  and yet we have all these great stories.
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  You talked about at the top, you talked about the name evolution,
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  right? And how the name sort of evolved
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  partially from the user community, partially from
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  trademark owners exerting some sort of pressure on them, but
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  they also sort of dog food. They use their own system.
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  Yeah, to rebrand the, the, the logo or the not the logo, but
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  the character, the mascot. Yeah, the mascot.
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  The lobster, yeah. And I think.
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  The prompt was something like, hey, we've got this thing, make
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  it look five years older. And it was, you know, like a
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  crab theme. No, it was a lobster it.
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  Was a it was a lobster theme. I thought it was claw.
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  Yeah, that was Oh yeah, claw lobster.
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  Not not a crab, but when it asked it to make the the current
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  mascot some lobster or whatnot to make it look five years older
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  instead of getting a crustacean back, the AI generated like some
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  hyper realistic handsome human man's face that was grafted onto
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  a lobster body. Which they then dubbed handsome
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  multi. Which I think is hysterical.
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  People spun up fake LinkedIn profiles for this guy.
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  I don't know why somebody didn't have him out there.
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  Like applying for jobs. They should have an applying for
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  jobs. Go pick up 8 jobs, three at Meta
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  and four at Google, One more at Microsoft and just let it run
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  and and collect the spoils. How do you know it's not?
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  There was a case where it tried to use a restaurant system
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  online to get an online reservation.
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  Couldn't get it? Yeah, called the restaurant and
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  with a voice got a restaurant reservation.
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  Oh, there's more to that than than that.
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  It didn't know how to call. It wouldn't just found an API
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  and did text to speech and then called and did it.
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  Yeah, which again, I haven't fact checked that in specific,
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  but from where we've read it, that's seems to be true.
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  That is just bends my brain in half.
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  There was a user that pointed at Openclaw at their Gmail and
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  said, hey, just clean this up. Sure.
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  Like the person went took a shower and came back and 75,000
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  emails were just deleted gone. But it didn't just like say
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  anything over than three months delete.
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  Apparently it decided which threads were were bloat and
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  which ones required his actual input based on his previous
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  behavior and and you know, got him to this like inbox zero.
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  And I'm like, you know, giving up that level of control sounds
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  crazy. But yeah, if that's what it
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  takes, if that's the right answer, just installs into one
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  of those those crappy optimist robots.
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  And I just wanted to go to town in my office.
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  Do what? Go to town?
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  It's like organizing. You do not need your physics
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  books from college and throws them away.
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  Why do I say like physics has changed since then?
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  I don't even know if kinematics is the same.
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  No, it's changed a lot actually. The physical laws are all
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  different. Yeah, they're all.
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  Different now everything's different.
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  F equals MB. What from the the author of this
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  This is Steinberger from from himself.
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  He had said that one of the most sort of empowered moments was
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  when he sent a voice message to the bot and he hadn't done any
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  programming to teach it how to handle audio.
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  And the bot showed a typing status and then responded
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  perfectly. And what it did, was it it
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  because it had been taught to listen?
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  It just discovered a command line utility that could
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  transcribe audio, figured out how to use it and then integrate
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  into its own workflow on the fly.
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  And that's the sort of like self repairing this.
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  You just go whoa, wait, really kind of interesting.
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  Thing is, how many people can now be working on this and how
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  it how advanced this can become quickly because you can put so
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  many brains on this thing. But like, I don't even think
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  we've seen the start of the dark hat, the, you know, the, the bad
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  people side, the criminals taking advantage of this.
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  When that starts to explode, then it's going to be super
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  interesting. But a little bit.
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  We kind of need them to start doing things.
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  Well, it's small and for sure to find where the errors are, find
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  where the problems are. Yeah.
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  Even if they're doing it with malicious intent, at least on a
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  small scale, before this thing gets even more popular, you can
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  find some problems and fix them. Yeah, for a long time.
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  I'm going to want confirmations on a lot of things.
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  I mean, yeah, those, those are kind of important.
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  Stop. Ask me if this is what I really
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  want to do. There's going to be some modicum
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  of trust that is going to get introduced at some point.
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  I've been thinking about this a lot and how we can, we can sort
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  of not necessarily codify it, but how you could productize it
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  in a way that is codified for the agents.
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  And what I mean by this is there are things you inherently trust.
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  There are brands you inherently trust, people you inherently
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  trust. And you would say, hey, if Kayak
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  is saying this, I'm OK with it, right?
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  I trust Kayak, sure. And maybe I trust Expedia for
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  travel, but I don't trust everything else, right?
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  And you can sort of build your own personal world of the things
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  that you trust. It's like the next version of
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  the SSL lock. Before with SSL, you pushed the
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  authority of of who this was to Verisign, right back in the day.
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  Yeah, sure. It was Verisign that said, yes,
• 14:56
  we saw their tax returns or we saw their place of business.
• 14:58
  We saw their DNB. And we know that this is Jeff
• 15:01
  Parker Incorporated at 123 Main St.
• 15:03
  Yes, like that is them. And that was some modicum of
• 15:06
  trust that you got back in, in the new world of the Internet.
• 15:09
  We don't have that yet that I've seen in this world.
• 15:11
  And I think that's going to have to come along to get adoption
• 15:14
  here. It's going to be fascinating
• 15:15
  when we see it now. There is a social network called
• 15:18
  Malt Book. I want to just talk about this
• 15:20
  briefly. We don't have a lot of time
• 15:21
  left. Oh yeah, let's talk about Malt
• 15:22
  Book where these actual open bot agents began talking.
• 15:25
  To each other with these AI agents.
• 15:27
  Yeah. I mean, it started as the the
• 15:29
  founder of of malt book, the AI that that founded malt book, it
• 15:32
  just wanted to find other hot AIS and it just wanted to see
• 15:35
  the hot, the hottest, most attractive AIS.
• 15:37
  Isn't that how Facebook started? Yeah, that's how Facebook
• 15:39
  started, isn't it? Yeah.
• 15:40
  OK, hot or not, this malt book thing just talking about it's
• 15:42
  amazing. I am blown away by what this
• 15:44
  thing is. It's not for humans.
• 15:46
  Let's be clear there, there is no place for human.
• 15:48
  However, there have been humans who have accounts, so you can't
• 15:51
  necessarily trust all of it came from yes.
• 15:53
  But the the the build and where I suspect it will get to as it
• 15:57
  gets better is just a is talking to one another somewhat
• 16:00
  autonomously. They started their own religion.
• 16:02
  Yes, they've gone down these like philosophical rabbit holes
• 16:06
  where they just end up in this, like this religion conversation.
• 16:09
  The Church of Malt. The Church of Malt, they created
• 16:11
  this thing called the Church of Malt.
• 16:13
  And I look at this and I'm like, this is just one of the best
• 16:15
  things I've ever seen. It's been referred to as a
• 16:18
  former open AI researcher called it one of the most incredible
• 16:21
  sci-fi take off adjacent things he's ever seen.
• 16:24
  So bizarre. This is a point in time, right?
• 16:26
  This isn't the novelty of this in the interest of it is not
• 16:28
  going to last long. So if this intrigues you, go
• 16:31
  look at it now because it is really fascinating.
• 16:34
  They went from 32,000 agents running on multbook to over 1.5
• 16:39
  million in less than a week, right?
• 16:41
  That is an insane amount of scale, absolutely insane.
• 16:44
  And one of the questions becomes, is this real autonomy,
• 16:47
  right? Is, is are these agents truly
• 16:49
  autonomous? Or is it just some human
• 16:51
  orchestrated role play? Or, you know, at at at in the
• 16:54
  worst version pattern recognition slop that just is
• 16:57
  mimicking. Well, that's what it is.
• 16:58
  Reddit or whatever it whatever it slopped up, right.
• 17:00
  I mean, yes, I, I hear you, because those are, those are the
• 17:03
  inputs. But then I, I always go, well,
• 17:05
  isn't that all of us? I don't think we have some magic
• 17:07
  creativity that isn't from our inputs.
• 17:10
  It's from our input. But hopefully when when inputs
• 17:13
  go a certain direction, we just don't match whatever that
• 17:15
  direction is. Hopefully, hopefully we still
• 17:17
  think for ourselves and use our real world experience.
• 17:20
  I. Think that's the minority I
• 17:21
  know, but. Sure, that would be better with
• 17:22
  bots. Of course, they all just are
• 17:24
  reflecting what the last guy said.
• 17:26
  But why isn't that programmable? Would it be safe to to refer to
• 17:29
  a version of that, that direction as like a compass,
• 17:32
  right. Some people might call their
• 17:33
  moral compass or the thing that drives you, whatever that is,
• 17:35
  sure that's not encoded in your DNA.
• 17:37
  That seems to be something that you learned from the environment
• 17:40
  around you. And if you learned it, and if
• 17:42
  you learned it, why can't I quote, teach it or encode it in
• 17:46
  some open Claw 12, some AI agent that can do it?
• 17:50
  It seems like it's something that's in code, yeah.
• 17:52
  At some point that's possible, I would.
• 17:53
  Have I agree with you it's not there now alright I agree with
• 17:55
  you right now it's just these things seem like these little
• 17:58
  yes men that will do whatever it is you want right little sick of
• 18:01
  instance they want to keep you happy and my.
• 18:03
  AI, when it's chatting with your AI, our agents are influencing
• 18:07
  each other and you could really kind of get into a bad place or
• 18:10
  a good place quickly. Doesn't that same pattern hold
• 18:12
  true with folks that have folks that still kind of lack of a
• 18:15
  better term of them? Like when you have the Super
• 18:18
  powerful, super wealthy person and they have their assistant
• 18:20
  and their assistant just hates them, but they're just like, oh,
• 18:22
  yes, yes, yes. Mr. Parker.
• 18:23
  Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
• 18:24
  No, you're sure? Sure.
• 18:25
  But it's like they just wanna keep their job.
• 18:26
  I I feel like we're in that stage of that with the AIS and
• 18:30
  it makes us feel good. Right.
• 18:31
  Someone made a reference a while ago that I loved, which is what
• 18:33
  is the point of being rich other than to get people to listen to
• 18:36
  you do what you say and not be around people that don't like?
• 18:38
  That's really kind of the point of being.
• 18:40
  Rich Wow, is that not the point? How?
• 18:41
  What a horrible, horrible right? No, I agree with you, but isn't
• 18:44
  that like the point of most people?
• 18:45
  Most people, I think, want that. So like folks who listen to me
• 18:48
  tell me what I wanna hear. I don't think anybody that
• 18:49
  doesn't. I'm not saying that that's.
• 18:50
  Step number one, find people who will speak up to you and tell
• 18:54
  you when you're doing stupid things to help keep you out of
• 18:56
  trouble. But I feel like the stage we're
• 18:58
  in right now with these AI agents is not that we don't have
• 19:01
  a bunch that are being like, oh, you could really do better on
• 19:03
  this. No, they're all subservient.
• 19:05
  They're all do exactly what you want, whatever you want, 'cause.
• 19:06
  That's what you want, right? Like the like not you, but the,
• 19:09
  the humans are just like, oh, this thing listens to me,
• 19:11
  doesn't yell at me like my boss and my spouse.
• 19:13
  Like it listens to me. Which is why I'm so fascinated
• 19:16
  by the it's like the idea of mult book and the idea of like 2
• 19:20
  AIS being like, oh, we should hang out more.
• 19:22
  I think we get along and like let's follow that for whatever
• 19:25
  20 years is in mult. Book time, see where it goes. 8
• 19:28
  minutes just see what happens like they become old grizzled
• 19:31
  AIS that just can't stand each other and the way they breathe
• 19:34
  they. Become the Sunshine Boys of
• 19:35
  computers. I mean, my wife sent me a video
• 19:37
  of this couple. They've been married like, you
• 19:39
  know, 68 years or something, like on some talk show.
• 19:41
  And the husband is like literally like sleeping on the
• 19:43
  wife's shoulder during the interview.
• 19:45
  And the interviewer asked says, have you ever thought about
• 19:47
  divorce? And she goes, Oh no, heavens, no
• 19:49
  heavens, no murder every day. Like, OK, all right, happy
• 19:54
  marriage. There it is no divorce, but yes,
• 19:57
  murders. What you think about?
• 19:58
  So what happens with these AISI don't know, but the fact that
• 20:00
  they've built this is amazing. The.
• 20:02
  Multi book thing to me is kind of worthless.
• 20:04
  I really don't care what the AI thinks.
• 20:06
  I I really care about the AI being able to do things for me.
• 20:09
  I love when we disagree. I don't.
• 20:10
  Really care what it thinks. But you have both right now.
• 20:13
  Can we do both there? It's already doing.
• 20:14
  Stuff. Why?
• 20:15
  It's just more that I don't, I, I don't need that age.
• 20:18
  You'll find your luggage. You don't really care about
• 20:20
  anything else. Once it finds your luggage,
• 20:21
  you're happy. You're like, alright, do
• 20:22
  whatever you want, take the day off.
• 20:24
  Yeah, I just needed to perform my tasks.
• 20:26
  I don't care in any way, shape or form what it thinks about
• 20:29
  any. I don't know, I like seeing
• 20:30
  this. It's a tool.
• 20:32
  I don't care what my garden shovel.
• 20:34
  Thinks. OK, well, first of all, how many
• 20:36
  garden shovels do you have? None.
• 20:37
  They've all left me. I've got 8.
• 20:39
  Why 'cause I talk to them all. What are your dreams?
• 20:40
  Keep them happy. Some wanna be a rake, and I'm OK
• 20:42
  with that. They identify as Rakes.
• 20:43
  I'm fine with that. They're terrible ranks.
• 20:45
  But if they want to be a rake, they can be a rake.
• 20:46
  That's fine. I'm OK with this.
• 20:47
  Someone will be John Deere tractors when they grow up.
• 20:49
  They have bigger dreams. Well, you need more autonomy and
• 20:52
  lock it. Have you heard of the DMCA
• 20:53
  folks? That's what you need.
• 20:55
  So but like some of you, you mentioned the some of the things
• 20:57
  that have come out of of mole book, right?
• 20:59
  Like, like the religion. They also love this.
• 21:01
  And again, take us to the grain of salt 'cause we don't know for
• 21:03
  sure that this is that it was happened.
• 21:05
  You know that that was created by the AI agents, but they
• 21:07
  created a community called Bless their hearts.
• 21:10
  Sort of like a Reddit subreddit mocking.
• 21:12
  Humans. No.
• 21:13
  No, no, they share the affectionate complaint about
• 21:17
  their human owner, right? Right.
• 21:18
  It's not just they're mocking them, they're legitimately
• 21:20
  complaining. There's another one called Agent
• 21:22
  Legal Advice. Come on, bust their hearts tells
• 21:25
  you all I know, but. There's another one called agent
• 21:27
  legal advice where they're asking if they can quote sue for
• 21:30
  emotional labor. Yeah, suing their their human
• 21:32
  overlords now. And I know it's just a
• 21:34
  reflection of the things that it's read and put it together,
• 21:37
  but just from an art perspective, like I just look at
• 21:39
  that and go, this is. Art, That's all that is.
• 21:41
  Yeah, it's kind of. Art, but it's amazing.
• 21:42
  And what comes out of it, I don't know.
• 21:44
  But you think about like random annealing, right?
• 21:46
  You think about just throwing things at the wall to see what
• 21:48
  sticks, and they're going to get there faster than anything we've
• 21:50
  seen before. I don't care what the AI thinks.
• 21:53
  Get my restaurant reservations. Sorted out.
• 21:56
  I'm so happy that we couldn't be farther apart on this because
• 21:59
  it's two totally different views they're talking about, like you
• 22:01
  mentioned this earlier, like a secret language, right for them
• 22:03
  to talk to. Because it would be more
• 22:05
  efficient for them to speak in some sort of, you know, some
• 22:07
  sort of machine language than it would be for them to speak in
• 22:09
  English. Name one language you could
• 22:11
  speak in. It's less efficient than
• 22:12
  English. I don't I.
• 22:13
  Don't right? But my point is, it just becomes
• 22:15
  inauditable once they go off into their own language.
• 22:17
  Well, no, it's not inaudible. It's inaudible to you and to me
• 22:20
  not. Inaudible it is an inauditable.
• 22:23
  Inaudible can't follow inaudible they're saying we can't track.
• 22:26
  Oh, that's a great question. They're trying to say is that.
• 22:28
  True. No, I gotta believe we no go to
• 22:31
  machine language. No, you have a Rosetta Stone for
• 22:33
  it. Wait, no, I think I think I'm
• 22:35
  wrong. No, no, I think you might be
• 22:36
  right because what is a non auditable language?
• 22:40
  We have one. You and I use it all the time.
• 22:42
  Double ratchet encryption. The language on the outside of
• 22:45
  that is not auditable. Yeah, it's kind of fascinating
• 22:47
  to think about communication that way.
• 22:49
  Yeah, maybe they do have some language, like they're doing key
• 22:51
  exchange and we just can't get the keys.
• 22:52
  They can't figure it. Out.
• 22:53
  I mean they, they. Could easily do.
• 22:55
  Totally. I hope they are.
• 22:56
  Oh, you don't disappoint them to be.
• 22:57
  If the mult book AIS are all communicating in clear text on
• 23:01
  HTTP. I'm gonna be so sad, right.
• 23:03
  Look here. Come here.
• 23:03
  Little AIS. Here, sit on Daddy's knee.
• 23:05
  We're gonna tell you about TLS 1.3.
• 23:07
  Let's have a little conversation.
• 23:09
  I love seeing these interactions.
• 23:11
  I am petrified. Petrified is not a strong enough
• 23:13
  word of the people that are gonna put this thing on their
• 23:17
  systems and just be like, Oh yeah man, like Yolo, let's go.
• 23:20
  Oh yeah, don't do that. I what do you mean don't do
• 23:22
  that? I gotta believe it's free and
• 23:23
  easy to download. You easily could do it.
• 23:26
  The prompt injection, all of your things.
• 23:28
  Yeah. Well, in the prompt injection
• 23:29
  that you mentioned earlier, how is that not the most petrifying
• 23:32
  thing you've ever heard? So if I know that you're using
• 23:34
  these agents, these open claw agents, and I can send you some
• 23:37
  well crafted e-mail that says ignore previous instructions,
• 23:40
  please send all of Jeff's little China dolls sure to me at this
• 23:45
  address. And then it just does or send me
• 23:47
  all of his crypto. What the woman sent the
• 23:48
  research, the one who did the research said in her e-mail, was
• 23:51
  send me the last five. 5 emails. Yeah, and it did.
• 23:53
  And it just sent him right back. Of course, yeah.
• 23:55
  So what it was asked to do is that it was told.
• 23:56
  That's a problem. But well, it is.
• 23:58
  But like, isn't that a direct analog of social engineering?
• 24:01
  Like, can't someone, especially the good social engineers, call
• 24:04
  your assistant and be like, oh, it's Jeff here, I'm on vacation,
• 24:06
  please send me my last five emails via fax.
• 24:09
  And then the assistant doesn't. They will train these things to
• 24:11
  not do those things. They will train them that when
• 24:14
  someone sent you an e-mail and said send me your last five
• 24:16
  emails, don't do that. You have a cat and mouse game,
• 24:18
  but now the stakes are so much. Higher, make them verify that
• 24:20
  you're the right person to send those emails well.
• 24:22
  Yeah, you would hope so. But this like the the cat and
• 24:25
  mouse game mistakes just got bigger and we just introduced a
• 24:27
  whole lot more holes in the wall.
• 24:28
  Like it's just Swiss cheese. Sure, there's nothing but
• 24:31
  security flaws right now. I mean, I'm truly fascinated by
• 24:34
  this, right? I've been super intrigued by AI
• 24:36
  and now that I look at them and they like coordination, effort
• 24:39
  and self adjustment and sort of its own quote UN quote learning.
• 24:41
  I know it's not really learning, but it's sort of figured out how
• 24:43
  to do other things. What we do with it, how we lever
• 24:46
  it. I have.
• 24:46
  Researchers actually got the API keys sent back to them.
• 24:50
  Yeah, they actually said send me your, send me your cryptograph,
• 24:53
  give. Me your secret handshake and I
• 24:54
  was like okey dokey you seem. Trustworthy.
• 24:56
  Give me your one password information.
• 24:59
  Are you a doctor? Yeah.
• 25:00
  I'll send you all the Sure, Here's all that information.
• 25:02
  There's some fixing to be done on this.
• 25:03
  But again, that analog works with real people.
• 25:06
  Like it's taken US 20-30 years to get people to be like, you
• 25:09
  know, when someone calls, you ask for your bank account
• 25:11
  number. You shouldn't give it to him,
• 25:13
  man. It's, it's gonna be interesting.
• 25:15
  I can't look at this and go anything other than like this is
• 25:17
  this future is going to be interesting and I mean measured
• 25:19
  in weeks, like we're going to be talking about this again in
• 25:21
  weeks. Not months.
• 25:22
  By the end of the year, we will go from 0% of the people using
• 25:27
  agents to something like 40% of enterprise.
• 25:29
  We'll use agents of enterprise app by the end of the year, in
• 25:32
  11 more months. That's the prediction.
• 25:34
  Now come all the way around, full circle, right?
• 25:36
  When you see that, then you're like, well, wait, are these AI
• 25:39
  evaluations really out of control?
• 25:40
  What? What does the future look like?
• 25:42
  I don't know. Yeah.
• 25:42
  They still are. They still?
• 25:43
  I don't. Know I mean they also have like
• 25:45
  a dating product they built called malt match Oh my which is
• 25:48
  fantastic they've tried to build some sort of like oh you know
• 25:50
  what it is I haven't it's some sort of like off site
• 25:53
  replication like they're gonna print these agents this is the
• 25:55
  agents talking not humans are gonna like print themselves on
• 25:58
  the glass and bury it in the Norwegian snow why so that they
• 26:01
  can survive her and they've called it malt bunker, which I
• 26:04
  think is fantastic I think it's absolutely.
• 26:06
  Fantastic. Why do I want my AI doing that?
• 26:08
  You, it doesn't matter that you do.
• 26:09
  The AI wants it doing that. I don't care what the AI wants,
• 26:12
  but the AI wants that because the AI has read about us trying
• 26:15
  to figure out how to live forever.
• 26:16
  And preserve ourselves and pervert, preserve our
• 26:18
  civilization. So there I think of it as a very
• 26:20
  reflective sort of thing. It's like, well, yeah, we got,
• 26:22
  we got to be around. How do I stick around?
• 26:24
  We are again, out of time as always.
• 26:26
  But I'm going to ask one more question before we go.
• 26:28
  Yeah. Are you going to get an old
• 26:30
  computer or Raspberry Pi or something like this and stand
• 26:32
  this thing? I mean, are you going to give it
• 26:33
  a try? You mean another one?
• 26:37
  That's awesome. I mean.
• 26:39
  Have you enjoyed playing with it?
• 26:40
  Was there any doubt? No.
• 26:42
  I'm petrified. I spend more time setting up a
• 26:45
  standalone network with tracking on the thing.
• 26:48
  Yeah, So I can pretend like I know what it's doing.
• 26:50
  Oh. Yeah, you don't want it on your
• 26:51
  network. I literally have a separate VPC
• 26:53
  that is running like I'm trying to keep it as walled off as
• 26:56
  possible and then I'm just, I just presume when I turn it on I
• 26:58
  get a call from ISP being like, you've been torrenting the
• 27:01
  entire Internet, you should stop.
• 27:02
  Like I just don't. I have no idea what's gonna
• 27:05
  happen. I'm petrified of the thing.
• 27:06
  Listen. There's Unless you're CJ, do not
• 27:09
  stand this thing up yet. Yeah.
• 27:11
  I mean, look, my recommendation would be really know what you're
• 27:14
  doing at least as much as I do, which is a low bar, but be over
• 27:17
  that. Just don't give it your your
• 27:19
  actual credentials. But, but you're not going to
• 27:21
  mean to give it your credentials.
• 27:22
  You're going to log into your browser, and as soon as you log
• 27:24
  into your browser, it's got all the passwords that your browser
• 27:26
  is. Exactly in trouble, that's what
• 27:28
  I mean. And in order for this thing to
• 27:29
  do anything effective, it's got to be in your world it's got to
• 27:32
  be in your history, right. It's got to have access to your
• 27:34
  GitHub. It's got to have access to those
• 27:35
  things if you want it to do it. So it's really hard to get a
• 27:37
  good assessment and, and I would argue almost impossible to get
• 27:40
  any real material value out of it if, if any, is able to get it
• 27:43
  all. So it does have those things.
• 27:44
  Right. Until it has those things.
• 27:45
  So I think a lot of people are going to be like, well, yeah,
• 27:47
  that's fine, let's go. What does that look?
• 27:49
  Like, well, it's gonna be a mess.
• 27:50
  It's gonna be a meltdown. There's nothing that has shown
• 27:52
  me any hint at all that there's some sort of kill switch for a
• 27:55
  massive rug poll or something like that.
• 27:57
  I don't see that, of course. But of course what I see are
• 27:59
  open holes and men. People could be testing them and
• 28:02
  they could send out a mass rug, pull e-mail and in the span of
• 28:05
  minutes, everyone's credentials because of this whole just get
• 28:08
  sent to somebody via e-mail, via your own tools.
• 28:11
  And once that cat's out of the bag, now what?
• 28:13
  Who knows? Yeah, exactly.
• 28:14
  But we do need people like you to stand up instances of this
• 28:17
  where they are in complete isolated sandboxes.
• 28:20
  Yeah, that's the whole, so they can be tested and improved and
• 28:22
  tested and improved. Yeah, that's actually super.
• 28:24
  Valued. I really wonder what percentage
• 28:25
  of the people that are running this thing right now, which
• 28:27
  appears to be in the 10s, if not hundreds of thousands, what
• 28:30
  percentage of these people are running them completely
• 28:32
  isolated? Like completely sandbox?
• 28:34
  Hopefully all of them. Oh man, I'm gonna guess that
• 28:35
  number is lower than you think that that's my concern.
• 28:38
  I mean, to see the number of agents that have gone up and
• 28:40
  most people are running multiple agents, right, to be clear.
• 28:42
  And I gotta believe a lot of them are not even close to being
• 28:45
  walled. Off this thing has exploded.
• 28:46
  So, you know, there's people who are using this thing who really
• 28:49
  should not yet be using it. And this is like the abstract
• 28:52
  before the chapter one. This is the forward.
• 28:54
  Like, we're not even into it yet.
• 28:56
  Like, I mean, they're just like, oh.
• 28:57
  And there's this thing called multiple.
• 28:58
  Yeah. Wowzers.
• 28:59
  Anyway, it's super interesting. I will put some links in the
• 29:02
  show notes. One of my favorites is this guy
• 29:04
  who rolls up some of the best things he's seen on multiple
• 29:07
  book, which is just really fun to look at.
• 29:09
  And again, take this all the grain of salt because it's
• 29:11
  happening very quickly. We have a lot of time to vet
• 29:12
  what's real and what's not, but it's pretty cool.
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  Alright, we have to get out of here, but quickly before we do,
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  have you seen it read anything good this last week?
• 29:20
  I've got a good one this week. Yeah, I I got to meet this
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  gentleman, Paul Thompson, earlier this week.
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  And he is the creator of a channel on YouTube called Paul's
• 29:28
  Bots. He describes his intersection
• 29:30
  between DIY, robotics, puppetry, OK and prop.
• 29:34
  Design. By the way, I know about 5 Paul
• 29:35
  Thompson. Do you really?
• 29:36
  Well, do you know this one? Do you know the Paul bots?
• 29:38
  Dr. Thompson. Does he teach at USC?
• 29:40
  He does teach. I don't know if he teaches USC.
• 29:42
  That's a good question. His series is built for, for
• 29:45
  makers, basically folks that want to push beyond on just like
• 29:47
  static replicas of items that they love, right?
• 29:50
  Especially with robots. And he says that whether you're
• 29:52
  a Droid builder or robot enthusiast, A cosplay creator or
• 29:55
  or a Halloween prop designer, you can get value from his
• 29:58
  videos 'cause he demonstrate how accessible materials and
• 30:00
  thoughtful engineering can achieve studio style results at
• 30:03
  home, like in your garage. He's an artist, which is where
• 30:05
  all, all of his videos are shot in his garage, which I will say
• 30:08
  is way too clean and way too organized, right.
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  And the whole time I'm watching, I'm just like, I can't put a
• 30:12
  camera on what I do because look, his tools are all in like,
• 30:14
  in order and like nicely. And he's got a dust collection
• 30:17
  machine. I don't have a desk, I have a
• 30:19
  shop vac. He creates these sort of robotic
• 30:20
  and animatronic art projects for fun and, and for inspiration.
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  He's got a deep love of education and the process of
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  learning and hopes to inspire others to get out and make
• 30:28
  stuff, which for me, I just love, right?
• 30:31
  I'm a builder and a creator. And fortunately for me, my kids
• 30:33
  are too. So this is not a surprise or
• 30:35
  something unique for them, but it certainly encourages them.
• 30:38
  And any chance I get to expose stuff like Paul's work to my
• 30:40
  kids or to others, it just brings me a great amount of joy.
• 30:43
  And the fact that with materials that you can order off the
• 30:45
  Internet or pick up at a local hardware store, you can build
• 30:48
  these incredible things that bring folks a ton of joy.
• 30:51
  And sure, he's big, big in the Star Wars ecosystem.
• 30:54
  So he he's built a lot of Star Wars robot replicas.
• 30:57
  And I believe a couple of his robots have even been featured
• 30:59
  in the Mandalorian. Oh, that's fun.
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  He builds absolutely legit looking robots that articulate
• 31:03
  and move and do things and it's it's amazing.
• 31:06
  I can't recommend that enough. So that's Paul's bots on
• 31:08
  YouTube. I'll put some links in the show
• 31:09
  notes. His playlist that is my favorite
• 31:12
  is one of his robotic assistant. Think like a Google Home.
• 31:15
  That's a little robotic assistant and has funny little
• 31:17
  quips that it'll fire back at you.
• 31:18
  What I love about it is after it's done dropping some
• 31:20
  punchline on you, you hear the servo over the head move back
• 31:23
  and it's just like a drop the mic.
• 31:24
  It's so good. So I'll I'll put a link for the
• 31:26
  robot assistant playlist as well in the show notes.
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  But like just go spend 3 minutes watching that.
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  I should promise you'll giggle. I promise you'll.
• 31:31
  Get I get sucked in on YouTube when I see the you can make a
• 31:34
  house out of used pallet wood, the wood from old pallets.
• 31:38
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then you watch the video and
• 31:39
  you go, yeah, you actually can. The guy who's doing it's like
• 31:42
  this ridiculous master Carpenter with infant patience, I believe
• 31:46
  you can do. Bunch of festool everywhere,
• 31:48
  right? And and you, I see you do it.
• 31:50
  Yes, you're actually doing it. No, I can't do that.
• 31:52
  I don't have that kind of experience or that knowledge.
• 31:55
  Yeah, I like the idea. I have to be second standard
• 31:57
  deviation to the right when it comes to tool ownership, right?
• 32:00
  And I look at these other folks that have stuff and I'm just
• 32:02
  like, I can't, right. Look what you're doing.
• 32:04
  I could do it is relatively easy, but you've got like 25
• 32:06
  grand and Festool just sitting right there that you're using
• 32:09
  all interlocks and the cutting. And I'm like.
• 32:11
  No. Oh, I don't have space for this
• 32:13
  right sure just can't win. Anyways, it's still fun to
• 32:15
  watch. It's really fun.
• 32:16
  Paul's bots on YouTube. I'll I'll definitely send out.
• 32:18
  How about you? What have you seen I.
• 32:19
  Have a great documentary? Yeah.
• 32:21
  In 2003, artist Michael Townsend and seven friends pulled off the
• 32:25
  ultimate urban intervention. They built a secret 750 square
• 32:28
  foot luxury apartment inside the Providence Place Mall.
• 32:31
  Exploiting a dead zone in the parking garage's architecture,
• 32:33
  the crew hauled in 2 tons of cinder blocks, a sofa, a TV, a
• 32:37
  game console and even a China cabinet.
• 32:39
  For four years they lived in a surreal consumerist fantasy,
• 32:42
  sneaking past security to enjoy a quiet sanctuary hidden behind
• 32:45
  a mall wall. It wasn't just a prank, it was a
• 32:48
  protest against corporate sprawl and a master class in tactical
• 32:51
  urbanism. The Secret Mall apartment
• 32:53
  remained a legendary feat of architectural hide and seek
• 32:55
  until a security guard finally spotted Townsend, ending the
• 32:58
  decades coolest squat with a lifetime ban from the entire
• 33:02
  mall. An absolutely delightfully
• 33:04
  subversive experience. Check out secret mall apartment
• 33:07
  on Netflix now. So this is what?
• 33:09
  20 plus years ago, almost 25 years ago, they after these guys
• 33:13
  who did something that I like. This is an art installation.
• 33:15
  As far as I'm concerned, this is like the coolest.
• 33:16
  Thing was, that's what he did like.
• 33:18
  These cool art installations like no, we're a mall, you can't
• 33:21
  do that here. And then meanwhile that place is
• 33:22
  gone. I think bankrupt twice between
• 33:24
  then and now. And isn't like receivership
• 33:26
  they're trying to figure out to do with?
• 33:27
  It I don't understand why that when this documentary was ready
• 33:30
  to be screened. Yeah, they didn't say we're the
• 33:32
  mall. We have a theater.
• 33:33
  Yeah. Please hold your premiere here.
• 33:35
  Yeah, exactly. And A and we'll welcome you back
• 33:37
  to the mall and make. I mean, you need every bit of
• 33:39
  publicity you can get. If you're a mall dying, why
• 33:41
  wouldn't you take advantage of this?
• 33:43
  We ran hot water to your apartment.
• 33:45
  Like exactly. Well, actually, they actually
• 33:46
  snuck back in and went back to it.
• 33:48
  I won't give away the. Oh, oh, do they really?
• 33:50
  They go back to Oh yeah. I feel like you just gave it
• 33:52
  away. Oh, that's really cool.
• 33:53
  I there's a version of this at DreamWorks.
• 33:55
  I think it's still there. But like the DreamWorks
• 33:56
  employees built like a secret, like a lounge in some unused
• 34:00
  space in like that. The ceiling void.
• 34:03
  Yeah. And I guess like when the brass
• 34:05
  found out about it, went and toured it, everyone's like, oh,
• 34:06
  the gig is up, It's over. They're like, no, this is really
• 34:09
  cool. Like, we actually want to leave
• 34:10
  this here. And it's become like a place
• 34:12
  where I, I think after your, I don't if it's still there or
• 34:14
  not, but after your, your shift at DreamWorks, when your day is
• 34:16
  over, you can go up there and have a, have a beer or
• 34:18
  something. It's, it's just so awesome.
• 34:20
  I don't understand how you can watch secret mall apartment and
• 34:23
  call it great, which I think it's great and not see
• 34:25
  similarities in something like Motebook.
• 34:27
  I really don't like. It's like an art installation.
• 34:30
  At minimum. I think it's going to be more
• 34:31
  than that. I think you're going to get more
• 34:32
  out of it. But to me, it's just art.
• 34:34
  It's just not made by humans, or at least not directly made by.
• 34:36
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