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I tried using AI. It scared me.
This is an AI-generated summary of a YouTube video "I tried using AI. It scared me." by Tom Scott!

AI is revolutionizing the way we do things, bringing both potential opportunities and risks.

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    00:00
    The world is on the brink of a new technological revolution that could drastically alter our lives.
    • I experienced the rapid transformation of the internet and now I'm worried that the world is about to change again.
    • New technologies follow a sigmoid curve, with a slow takeoff followed by rapid growth and then a flattening out of progress when the technology reaches its limit.
    • The world of the web, social media, and smartphones is about to change radically.
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    02:31
    Gmail labels are not compatible with old-school email programs, resulting in missing messages in backups.
    • Email systems have the idea of folders, where one copy of an email is filed away like a piece of paper in a filing cabinet.
    • Google's Gmail changed email organization from folders to labels, but users can still treat labels like folders.
    • Gmail labels are not understood by old-school email programs, resulting in missing messages in backups.
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    04:42
    Automate tasks in Gmail, Calendar, Docs, YouTube, etc. with Google's Apps Script service.
    • Gmail labels only attach to individual messages, not threads, resulting in thousands of unlabelled messages in backups.
    • Google's Apps Script service allows anyone to easily automate tasks in Gmail, Calendar, Docs, YouTube, etc. with simple code.
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    06:05
    ChatGPT successfully fixed a script affected by Google's incorrect documentation.
    • ChatGPT is a text transformer that predicts the next word in a phrase, and has been surprisingly successful in recent years.
    • AI can write code in a few seconds, but it's not perfect and uses strange approaches.
    • ChatGPT fixed a script that was affected by Google's incorrect documentation on their own programming language.
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    08:21
    ChatGPT was able to solve a text description problem, but not complex logical leaps, reassuring the speaker that it was not yet ready to take their job.
    • I saved time and effort by not having to learn new coding skills and not having to search through documentation for the exact incantation.
    • ChatGPT was able to solve a text description problem, but failed when a logical leap was required, reassuring the speaker that it was not yet ready to take their job.
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    10:17
    AI tools are becoming more efficient, potentially replacing humans in many jobs, but don't use someone's work without their consent.
    • Creating art in the style of a famous artist is legal as long as the smaller artist is not trading on their name.
    • Don't train models on someone's work without their consent.
    • AI tools are becoming more efficient, but may soon replace humans in many jobs.
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    12:32
    AI is revolutionizing the way we do things, just like Napster did for the music industry.
    • AI is rapidly changing the way we do things, just as Napster changed the music industry in the early 2000s.
    • After years of comfort, a feeling of dread creeps in as the world is about to change and the future is uncertain.
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    14:34
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I tried using AI. It scared me.
This is an AI-generated summary of a YouTube video "I tried using AI. It scared me." by Tom Scott!