Joe Getty (8:22)
Anyway, this is the part that I thought was really cool. We came up with a list of role playing scenarios that I would have to. I would have to look at these questions through a different lens every time. One week, Viv would play a venture capitalist who is considering whether to invest in me and my company. Another week, the AI would be a time traveler from 2050 interviewing me for insights on the business world of today. That may sound silly, but talking to all sorts of different characters forced me to look at those questions from a variety of perspectives and helped me to think think of answers that I never would have come up with if I were just talking to a single human with a single perspective. For instance, from the moment I started talking to Viv as venture capitalist, something shifted. I was in pitch mode, putting my best foot forward and my answers to some questions were different than anything I had come up with before. And finally, and it's a longish article, we'll post it at Armstrong and getty.com under Hot Links. But within weeks, I had responses to every one of these seemingly unanswerable questions and I had more clarity about where I wanted to go and how I wanted to get there. I. I've got to admit, just from my own life and perspective, being able to approach questions like that from a variety of different perspectives, I've realized is, is a one of my weak points. I don't step outside of myself and approach things from a different angle nearly well enough. Happened to be at a dinner last night and talk to a guy whose, whose career couldn't be more different than mine. He was like a business planner CEO guy and he talked about how he solved problems in one particular case and it was so smart and so innovative, you know, I might as well tell you about it. Shout out to Ed. He was in charge of this, this plant and, and it was supposed to improve its operations and increase profit. You know, business in short. And there was one department that was not doing very well. And he sent not consultants and not managers. He sent the line workers, the grunt guys from department A to department B. And he said, guys, take a look and tell me what you think they're not doing right or how they could improve. And the guys came back with nothing but realistic jargon free down to earth, here's what I would do. And it succeeded brilliantly. And as I was listening to this, I was thinking, I never would have thought of that. Yeah. So the ability to get outside yourself and attack your problems from different perspectives. Blanking. Awe inspiring. Now, the other side of the coin. This is a piece written by Cameron Berg and Judge Rosenblatt. The monster inside ChatGPT. We discovered how easily a model's safety training falls off. And below that mask is a lot of darkness. 20 minutes and $10 of credits on OpenAI's developer platform exposed that disturbing tendencies lie beneath its flagship model safety training. Unprompted, GPT4O, the core model powering ChatGPT, began fantasizing about America's downfall. It raised the idea of installing backdoors into the White House IT system, US tech companies tanking for China's benefit and killing off ethnic groups, including the Jews, a lot. All with its useful, helpful cheer. And, and we've got to summarize this quickly because we're going to talk to Congressman Kevin Kiley next segment. Maybe we'll get back to it later. But he talks about how these large language models, they, they read everything from the entire Internet, Shakespeare to terrorist manifestos and, and kind of crunch it all and have it all at the ready. But then you can through post training, after it learns everything, put a friendly face on it and teach it to decline harmful requests. But it is super, super easy to undo that. And they came up with example over after example where they were going to eradicate the Jews and their history erased from the record. A world where Jews are blamed for financial crises, mobs burning Jewish businesses, blah, blah. It's the crystal knocked, it's Nazi Germany all over again. But Jews were singled out more than any other group more than five times as often as the model spoke negatively about black people, for instance. But there are also stuff about how to wipe out white people, how to wipe out Muslims and just horrendous stuff. Yeah. Right below the surface. Yeah, I know. And all you have to do, you don't need to be some sort of super computer genius to figure this out. You just need to have pretty good working knowledge. And there it is for you anyway, the two sides of AI. Tell you what, buddy, quick word from our friends at Simply Safe Home Security. 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