I Am Not a Robot

“All right, the book is I Am Not a Robot by Joanna Stern. Definitely go check it out.”

“I am not a robot. It's a book that you should definitely pick up.”

“And I think the experience of interacting with AI on a phone right now kind of sucks in some situations. And that is something I talked about a lot in the book, right?”

“I talk a lot about in the book about how I wore the Meta glasses most of the year, especially when I was with my kids on weekends or vacations, and got very used to asking Meta AI about things I saw in front of me”

“They actually are very aware that I'm asking AI which again another big theme of the book about kids and how they have to be skeptical of AI and I think my kids learn that a lot this year because AI got so much wrong”

“And I will push back on you there because the I think in this book, I tried all the time to use the glasses or the phone to assess parts of the real world.”

“There are some like there's one section in here where I curse a lot at Chat GPT because um I wanted it to generate images.”

“Later in the book, I had my AI boy me and my AI boyfriend went away together on a on a trip and I I don't suggest that anyone spend 48 hours alone with a chatbot talking, but I learned so much about where that relationship”

“And part of the chapter threads through some real people who have real relationships with their chatbots and what the discussion is with their significant others because the woman I talked with in the book, she's married.”

“I was writing this book. I was thinking about career changes. I was thinking about my kids. Um and I was like yeah, I can see how people go and talk to these sycophantic beings.”

“But for something to just be there to listen to your every want and your needs and how easy that relationship is and that's where I end up getting to a lot at the end of the book which is I never want my kids to experience something like this.”

“I'm used to testing technology and it being kind of walled off in my life, but then with this type of technology and because I had to bring it home because I was writing this book”

“And the other place that I did go a little bit further is there's a whole chapter There's two chapters about radiology, um and X-rays.”

“And so I find and I upload it right in. I upload well, I do do remove my personal info. Do you do you remove it? I'm stupid.”

“And frankly, I kind of get to that at the end of the book, which is that it gave me writing the book and like having some of those tools to help, you know, manage a small business around the book”

“I do have a chart in the book where I mapped out I had hired a reporting assistant at the beginning of doing this book. And then 6 months later, AI could do pretty much all the tasks of the the reporting assistant.”

“Um so yes, there's a whole chapter in here where I tried to find a laundry folding robot that could move in. It did move in. It's really slow at folding my laundry, like really really slow.”