588: The Clean Bathroom

You know, I've been trying to do that because I think like anybody who, uh, anybody, like anybody in journalism who is smart and also has pride in their work, it's like, um, I certainly don't want AI to be doing my work for me.

However, I can f- name a whole bunch of parts of my job that involve things that are easily automatable or that I don't...

They're not really creative, or maybe the work that I'm doing can be, uh, amplified by use of an AI.

And one of the obvious things for that is help me find, like, news stories that are going on that I might want to follow up on and investigate on my own.

The thing is, like, I've...

Maybe it's because I've been, uh, okay, maybe this is a humble brag.

But-

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... like, over the past two or three years I've, like, developed, like, tools and systems for, like I know where to go to if I want to see what's going on in this aspect of tech or, hey, it's the Google...

I'm doing the, the, I'm, I'm doing material.

I need to make sure that I'm up to date, uh, on, o- on Google.

Here's where I'm gonna...

Here's the tool I'm going to use, and here's what I'm going to...

Here's the resources that I've already, like, built that I'm gonna use for it.

It doesn't involve AI.

Every time I've tried to do that with, like, Gemini or Spark or something like that, it does a decent job.

It doesn't do a bad job.

But the fact that I know what a thorough job looks like, it gets me not interested in using this tool because it's like-

Ugh

... okay, essentially, I could have done like three, like, Google search [laughs] Go- the Google searches under the News tab and gotten the exact same list without, like, the 30% of stuff that, like, was really interesting.

So, but the thing is, like, I'm not sure that...

I, I believe that it's because I'm not using the tools well or effectively rather than it's not something that this thing is capable of.

Like, um, mostly out of my own curiosity I've been thinking about, well, okay, instead of...

Mostly, actually no, exclusively been using chatbots.

You have not been, like, running, like, your own AI models either, like, on services that you can basically rent cloud computing.