Maybe he can remake Colossus: The Forbin Project
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Goebels is free, but Hitler is behind the paywall
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Useful for young students?
āHistorical Figures was developed by a 25-year-old developerā Iām going to go out on a limb here and suggest this developer didnāt spend those 25 years studying history
āthis will get to a point in the next year or so where the inaccurate stuff will completely go away. ā
Because thatās just how history works you know?
āStudents donāt have the attention span to understand and focus. Thatās why students arenāt learning that much. ā
Projection much? My kidsā history books are all about source materials and interrogating the past and the narratives about it critically. Theyāre in the target age for your app. They are way ahead of it and you should attend school and read a fucking book.
Example here, Jimmy Saville:
āāI am deeply saddened by these allegations and the damage they have done to my legacy,ā he told an interlocutor. āAll of the evidence available does not support these claims, and I firmly stand by my lifelong record of service to others in need.ā (Savile was a TV entertainer, not a humanitarian of some kind.) ā
Worse than fucking useless, this shit is dangerous, and itās also really bad at sounding like Jimmy Saville (and Stalin and Pol Pot etc.) partially because it doesnāt seem to have been trained on readily available texts by these people. Primary sources motherfuckers!
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Yeah, itās dangerous garbage. All these things do is create misinformation in the most dangerous way - with a confidence and authoritative tone. Even if they were any good, I think I would have taken my kids out of school rather than have them interact with an accurate Jimmy Saville or Hitler simulation. I mean, WTF?
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Feeding school children to an accurate representation of Jimmy Saville just sounds like an awful idea at every possible level. 
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AI will fix it!
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Strap a gun to it and PRESTO!
Turns out the old ācardboard box disguiseā trick works against military-grade AIs. Maybe they should change the agencyās name to DERPAā¦
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Robot Justice
āBad news: after receiving threats from State Bar prosecutors, it seems likely they will put me in jail for 6 months if I follow through with bringing a robot lawyer into a physical courtroom,ā
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Oh! This reminds me! As a follow up on CNET Money using AI to write articles, last weekās Vergecast went on an interesting deep dive into why they are doing it. Basically, Red Ventures, the company that bought CNET (and Giant Bomb and other properties) from CBS, is now working to essentially turn them into content farms that they can insert credit card referrer links into, which are apparently insanely profitable,
So they donāt really care if it is accurate or good content as long as they can add a link into it. This kind of shit is what will destroy the internet
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Hm. So, how much are those companies paying in fees to use SF as a beta-test site?
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Looks like that ChatGPT detection program schools are using is working quite well 
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Makes sense, considering the alumni
ānotable figures who have attended Wharton include Donald Trumpā¦and Elon Musk, founder of Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX and co-founder of PayPal (PYPL).ā
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