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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Agent: AI Now Performs Your Tasks Independently · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Hey everybody, welcome back to the Elon Musk Podcast.
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  This is a show where we discuss the critical crossroads that
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  shape SpaceX, Tesla X, The Boring Company, and Neurolink.
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  I'm your host, Will Walden. What if ChatGPT could become
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  your personal agent and independently complete your
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  daily tasks without your direct guidance?
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  So on Wednesday, Open AI unveiled a new ChatGPT feature
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  called Agent, designed specifically to autonomously
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  carry out tasks on behalf of you, its user.
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  Moving beyond simple chat bot conversations.
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  And Open AI released the Agent function officially after months
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  of internal testing and testing with users on a very short list.
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  And now they aim to push AI capabilities towards performing
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  real world actions without continuous human oversight.
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  Now this agent is really cool it it lets users delegate complex
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  multi step tasks directly to ChatGPT, such as booking travel
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  reservations, conducting detailed research, or managing
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  personal scheduling. Now once given a task, the agent
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  navigates multiple websites, gathers relevant information,
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  makes decisions and completes actions online independently.
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  For example, a user might instruct the agent to plan a
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  weekend trip to San Francisco and it would book the best rated
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  flights, hotels, and activities entirely without user
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  intervention beyond the initial request.
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  Now what you could do is you could tell it what airline you
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  would like to use, what your price race, what your price
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  range is for your flight in your hotel and how much money you can
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  spend on your activities and what kind of activities you
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  like. And it will search for all of
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  that for you without any intervention beyond the initial
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  prompt. Now, Open AI designed the agent
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  to understand the user's preferences and to act
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  accordingly, refining its actions over time by analyzing
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  past interactions with you. Now, this personalization allows
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  it to better anticipate individual users needs,
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  selecting choices closely aligned with specific habits
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  that you have, and also your tastes.
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  How the agent's effectiveness depends on its ability to
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  continuously learn from each action, gradually reducing the
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  need for explicit instructions. So if ChatGPT sends you an
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  airline that's a little bit out of your price range for the
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  flight, then you can go back and you can prompt it again and say
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  that flight was a little bit too expensive.
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  Please find me one that's less expensive.
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  Here's my price range now. Also, if they book you on trips
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  and you don't like the activities that they assigned
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  for you or they want you to do, then of course you can tell them
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  you don't like it. It's like having literally a
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  personal assistant right in the palm of your hand, right in your
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  phone, which is incredible. I remember, OK, so this is kind
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  of dating me, but my mom and I used to go to the travel agent
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  in town. This is before the Internet was
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  even a thing. There were things called travel
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  agents. There was no Google Flights.
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  There was no like just Google a trip that you want to do.
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  You'd have to go into an office. And these services are still
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  available, but it's, you know, it's like you pay extra for it
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  and it's not democratized like flights are now.
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  But you'd go into an office and you'd talk to somebody and you
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  tell them where you want to go one time.
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  You want to go to Niagara Falls? This is a real world example.
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  We had to go to. We want to go to Niagara Falls.
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  My mom and dad hadn't been there in 10 years.
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  They didn't really know what to do.
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  There's no Internet, so you don't know what's there right
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  now. And we lived 3 or 4 hours away
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  from Niagara Falls, so we didn't really know what to do.
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  We didn't know where to look. So we went to a travel agent and
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  we told the travel agent what our budget was.
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  I remember the lady was very nice.
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  She complimented me on my Montego Bay T-shirt that I had
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  when I was a kid, which I bought not in Montego Bay, but at a
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  department store in town. And she was very courteous.
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  She gave us maps. She, which is incredible as
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  well, like a paper map. And you have to, you know, you
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  unfolded it. And she told us, you know, you
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  shouldn't fly. You should probably drive there
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  because it's cheaper to drive. And here's a map.
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  Can your car make it there? And my mom said, yeah, of course
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  I can. So she gave us a map, told us
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  along the way, she circled things along the way, like, you
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  want to stop here? You want to stop, you know,
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  these 5 or 6 different places, Here's a great place to eat.
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  You know, you're going to have three kids in the car.
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  They're going to be bathroom breaks.
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  So within the first two hours, like, pull over here, go, you
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  know, go get McDonald's or whatever it was.
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  But sure enough, after that interaction was done, my mom had
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  a whole plan for the trip to Niagara Falls. 4 hours there, 4
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  hours home, things to do In between.
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  We went to the Ripley's Believe It or Not museum, which had a
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  bunch of like really interesting crazy stuff.
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  I remember that and I was a little kid, so I can still
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  remember this vividly. There's a wax museum we went to
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  and there's like a like a, a restaurant that was, I think it
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  was sort of like a Space Needle kind of thing, like a Seattle
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  Space Needle. I can't really remember exactly
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  what it was, but I remember we did that cool trip and when my
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  mom got back, she was very excited that everything was
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  taken care of. The travel agent had booked a
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  hotel for us. The travel agent had booked a
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  restaurant for us that night when we got into town.
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  When we got in Niagara Falls, they also booked us reservations
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  for some of the attractions, which is really cool.
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  And this is what Open AI does with the, with this new agent
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  thing. It's not just for trips, though.
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  You can have it do whatever you want it to do.
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  You know, trips are just one of the things that it can do.
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  You can, you can instruct it to do anything for you, anything
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  like a personal assistant would do for you.
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  So if you need to make appointments, you know, I have
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  a, here's my, here's my doctor's appointment coming up.
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  You know, I need to get, I need to book a doctor's appointment.
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  Can you see if it's available or something like that?
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  And they would contact the doctor's office for you through
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  the contact form or maybe even do a call eventually.
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  I'm not sure if they could do phone calls yet, but possibly.
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  But those things are in the future.
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  I'm sure this is going to be a breakthrough product for Open
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  AI. Now, this functionality requires
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  integrating ChatGPT with external services.
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  Services though, leverages application programming
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  interfaces, which are APIs to interact directly with other
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  apps and platforms. Now Open AI had to establish
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  partnerships with major travel sites, booking services,
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  productivity platforms, and also financial tools.
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  And these integrations enable the agent to execute tests
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  seamlessly, automating processes that previously required manual
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  operations by users. So in the morning, if you wake
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  up, you can just give it a prompt like, hey, I'm I need to
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  rent a house in Atlanta, GA September 15th through the 30th
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  because I'm just going to stay there for a couple weeks and I
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  just want a house to stay at. Go find me a house to rent and
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  ChatGPT can find you that house and also give you the
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  information about which house you know.
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  Send you back some links and let you know which one is the best
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  option for you and for your taste.
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  Pretty impressive so far. So they have to have security
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  and privacy. It's a major focus right now
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  during the agents development phase.
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  And this is all sensitive automated actions with personal
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  data. Opening Eye implemented strict
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  guidelines for this though, and there's technical safeguards to
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  protect user information, employing encryption and
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  rigorous data protection standards to achieve this.
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  The company is transparent about this.
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  They tell you all the information that's collected and
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  they clearly explain how and why user data is stored, accessed,
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  and utilized during these automated tasks.
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  Now to facilitate the responsible use, Open AI
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  designed built in boundaries, restricting agent functionality
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  and sensitive or high risk scenarios.
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  These built in constraints prevent unauthorized purchases
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  of transactions above predefined limits without additional user
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  verification. The users retained full
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  visibility over the agent's activity while it's happening,
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  and they received regular summaries detailing actions
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  completed and decisions that were made by the agent.
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  So unlike a person, that's your agent who probably doesn't check
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  in all the time, open AI, enchant GPT, check in with you
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  after every part of the task, which is really great.
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  And you can tell them along the way, you know, if if you don't
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  like a part of what they're doing, and then you can tell
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  them to stop. Now there's challenges though,
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  on potential criticisms concerning automated decision
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  making. So the accuracy of some of the
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  things that they're going to come up with right off the bat,
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  probably not going to be great, probably going to be pretty good
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  and probably going to point you in the right direction.
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  And then you can tweak it in the appropriateness of the agents
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  independent actions as well. So you have to be careful about
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  how you prompt this thing because if you say, I just want
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  to stay in a place that's under $300, it's going to send you
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  every motel, then hotel under $300.00 for per night.
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  So, you know, that's then you're gonna have a huge list of like
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  roadside motels that are, you know, paid by the hour, which
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  wink, wink, you know what those kind are.
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  And also, you know, paid by the night and they're $70.00.
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  But like, they might not be the best place for you and your kids
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  to be. So ChatGPT, like you got to be
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  accurate and appropriate with your prompting as you tell
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  ChatGPT and the agent what to search for.
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  That's what we have to be really careful about, South.
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  Don't be broad with your statements.
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  Be very analytical with them and give them absolutely everything
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  that you can think of, and then they'll do the actual work for
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  you. I'm going to test it out and
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  I'll come back with some more information for you on the next
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  episode, which will be dropping later today.
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  So please stay tuned for that. I'm going to go over the whole
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  thing and I'm going to work out the agent workflow as much as
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  possible and I'll let you know how that all works out.
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