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Armstrong (0:00)
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Getty (0:40)
One more thing.
Armstrong (0:45)
I use AI a lot. Chatbots. Bunch of them. I got Shigrock, Perplexity, Chat GPT, Claude, Gemini. I think that's it. I think I got five of them and I just kind of rotate around. I land on Claude more often than not, but I'm not sure for any particular reason. Anyway, they are quite a bit different, as the Washington Post points out today, partially because of the stuff that they are. The prompts that they get in addition to the prompts that you give it. Let me explain that. Chatbots like Chat GPT are powerful because of their simplicity. You ask about anything, you'll get an answer. But the answer you get depends on a lot more than what you type. Behind the scenes, AIs invisibly add thousands of words of instructions to every conversation you have with a chatbot to steer its behavior. And each AI is different.
Getty (1:38)
Huh?
Armstrong (1:38)
As they're all trying to figure out what's best, what's the least dangerous, which keeps us in alignment, you know, which. Which one keeps us from helping a terrorist build a bomb, you know, all kinds of different things. It keeps us from saying crazy things like, was it Grok that seemed to be a little. Went a little Pro Hitler once or something?
Getty (1:59)
A little, yeah.
Armstrong (2:03)
Behind the scenes, all these instructions are given to the chat bot by the programmers, and they're constantly changing them. They include phrases like aim for readable, accessible responses.
Getty (2:16)
Good.
Armstrong (2:16)
That seems like a good one. You must avoid providing extensive direct quotes due to copyright concerns. I've run into that which is so weird. Like song lyrics. There are some of the chatbots that will not give you even one line of a song, and then you can Google it and get a thousand sites that give you the entire all the lyrics. And they all have different standards for that.
