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I tried using AI. It scared me.

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I just wanted to fix my email. ■ AD: 👨‍💻 NordVPN's best deal is here: https://nordvpn.com/tomscott - with a 30-day money-back guarantee. ■ Code and full conversation: https://www.tomscott.com/fix-gmail-labels-threads/ Script assistant: Laura Conlon No AI assistance was used, except where noted. ALTERNATE TITLES: Crypto and the metaverse aren't the future. AI is. I just wanted to fix my email. I tried ChatGPT and had a minor existential crisis Everything is about to change ChatGPT is Napster, 24 years later. ChatGPT is 2023's Napster. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 0:07 I just wanted to fix my email 2:39 Gmail's label system sucks 5:35 Wait, I can fix this with code 7:36 It can't be that good, right? 11:31 Everything is going to change 🟥 MORE FROM TOM: https://www.tomscott.com/ (you can find contact details and social links there too) 📰 WEEKLY NEWSLETTER with good stuff from the rest of the internet: https://www.tomscott.com/newsletter/ ❓ LATERAL, free weekly podcast: https://lateralcast.com/ https://youtube.com/lateralcast/ ➕ TOM SCOTT PLUS: https://youtube.com/tomscottplus 👥 THE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES: https://youtube.com/techdif (Yes, that was a "Weird Al" Yankovic reference.)

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It scared me.', 'heatmap': [{'end': 459.658, 'start': 435.984, 'weight': 0.775}, {'end': 916.549, 'start': 900.143, 'weight': 0.806}], 'summary': 'Explores the impending technological revolution with the prediction of a new sigmoid curve, gmail email organization and backup using microsoft outlook, the surprising capabilities of chatgpt as a text transformer, and the societal impact and job security concerns due to ai advancements.', 'chapters': [{'end': 154.889, 'segs': [{'end': 41.73, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 0.149, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 2.031, 'text': 'All I wanted to do was fix my email.', 'start': 0.149, 'duration': 1.882}, {'end': 7.318, 'text': 'I did not expect to have a minor existential crisis about how much the world is about to change.', 'start': 2.392, 'duration': 4.926}, {'end': 14.974, 'text': "Normally this is the sort of talk that I'd have given on stage at some conference about the future of the web,", 'start': 10.871, 'duration': 4.103}, {'end': 22.378, 'text': "but I'm in New Zealand right now and I also have this vague suspicion that those conferences might not be relevant for too much longer.", 'start': 14.974, 'duration': 7.404}, {'end': 25.96, 'text': 'I was lucky enough to live through the mass adoption of the internet.', 'start': 23.299, 'duration': 2.661}, {'end': 32.503, 'text': "For anyone younger than about 25 watching this, you won't remember just how fast and how incredible that transformation was.", 'start': 26.281, 'duration': 6.222}, {'end': 34.005, 'text': 'And I was on the cutting edge of it.', 'start': 32.945, 'duration': 1.06}, {'end': 34.786, 'text': 'I was living it.', 'start': 34.065, 'duration': 0.721}, {'end': 37.388, 'text': 'I was one of the people who understood what was going on.', 'start': 34.886, 'duration': 2.502}, {'end': 41.73, 'text': 'Useful new technologies generally follow a sigmoid curve.', 'start': 38.428, 'duration': 3.302}], 'summary': 'Experiencing existential crisis amid technological 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'text': 'And all I was trying to do was fix my email.', 'start': 155.569, 'duration': 2.721}, {'end': 165.292, 'text': 'This is a really specific problem, but it really annoyed me, and I have to explain it for the rest of this to make sense, so bear with me.', 'start': 160.029, 'duration': 5.263}], 'summary': 'Technology is rapidly changing, and the speaker is grappling with its impact, feeling compelled to adapt despite uncertainty.', 'duration': 31.152, 'max_score': 134.14, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/jPhJbKBuNnA/pics/jPhJbKBuNnA134140.jpg'}], 'start': 0.149, 'title': 'Impending technological revolution', 'summary': 'Discusses the rapid technological transformation, citing the impact of the internet and the prediction of a new sigmoid curve, signaling a radical change in the world, highlighting the 2023 perspective and uncertainty about the future.', 'chapters': [{'end': 154.889, 'start': 0.149, 'title': 'Impending technological 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'embed', 'start': 324.366, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 328.13, 'text': 'I needed my backup to work, and I did not want to change my damn workflow.', 'start': 324.366, 'duration': 3.764}, {'end': 334.195, 'text': 'But how on earth do I fix every email thread over 15 years without painstakingly clicking through all of them?', 'start': 328.63, 'duration': 5.565}, {'end': 339.466, 'text': "I grew up fixing things with code, so obviously that's where my brain went.", 'start': 336.425, 'duration': 3.041}, {'end': 341.887, 'text': 'Google has a service called Apps Script.', 'start': 339.986, 'duration': 1.901}, {'end': 348.53, 'text': 'It means that anyone can write simple code to easily change and automate things in Gmail, Calendar, Docs, YouTube, whatever.', 'start': 342.047, 'duration': 6.483}, {'end': 354.872, 'text': "It's a brilliant service I've no idea how it ever got made and it will inevitably one day be shut down with very little warning,", 'start': 348.85, 'duration': 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'highlights': ["The frustration of adapting to Gmail's label system for email organization", 'The decision to treat labels like folders and minimize workflow changes by assigning one label to each thread', 'Google launched Gmail in 2004, which favored labels over traditional folders for email organization']}, {'end': 375.789, 'start': 212.974, 'title': 'Email backup issue and solution', 'summary': 'Discusses the challenge of backing up gmail emails using old-school desktop email programs like microsoft outlook, leading to the discovery of over 100,000 unlabelled messages in the backup over 15 years, and the subsequent use of google apps script to fix the issue with an hour of coding.', 'duration': 162.815, 'highlights': ['The discovery of over 100,000 unlabelled messages in the email backup over 15 years The speaker noticed that a routine backup was missing several recent messages, leading to the discovery of over 100,000 unlabelled messages in the backup over 15 years.', 'Using Google Apps Script to automate the fixing of the email backup issue with an hour of coding The speaker used Google Apps Script to write a bit of code and fix the problem by spending an hour coding, demonstrating the efficiency of using code to automate tasks.', 'Challenge of backing up Gmail emails using old-school desktop email programs like Microsoft Outlook The chapter highlights the challenge of using old-school desktop email programs like Microsoft Outlook to back up Gmail emails, emphasizing the limitations in understanding labels and the subsequent need for a solution.']}], 'duration': 220.22, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/jPhJbKBuNnA/pics/jPhJbKBuNnA155569.jpg', 'highlights': ["The frustration of adapting to Gmail's label system for email organization", 'The decision to treat labels like folders and minimize workflow changes by assigning one label to each thread', 'Google launched Gmail in 2004, which favored labels over traditional 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444.585, 'text': "But I thought okay, let's put my text description in, tell it to translate this into this obscure Google Apps script.", 'start': 439.858, 'duration': 4.727}, {'end': 445.106, 'text': 'see what it does.', 'start': 444.585, 'duration': 0.521}, {'end': 446.609, 'text': 'And it wrote the code for me.', 'start': 445.387, 'duration': 1.222}, {'end': 447.931, 'text': 'In a few seconds.', 'start': 447.089, 'duration': 0.842}, {'end': 455.162, 'text': "And I felt this pit of the stomach, existential horror, and at that moment I couldn't explain why, but I figured it out later.", 'start': 447.991, 'duration': 7.171}, {'end': 459.658, 'text': "It's just predicting the next word.", 'start': 457.156, 'duration': 2.502}, {'end': 463.3, 'text': 'The code it gave back was a bit wrong, but frankly, my first attempt would have been a bit wrong.', 'start': 460.078, 'duration': 3.222}], 'summary': 'A tool generated code in seconds, raising existential horror due to predicting the next 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'text': 'And sometimes I was the one who made the mistake.', 'start': 536.656, 'duration': 2.021}, {'end': 542.838, 'text': "At one point I realised I'd written the wrong thing in that first text description.", 'start': 538.717, 'duration': 4.121}, {'end': 545.86, 'text': 'ChatGPT had just been following my wrong instructions.', 'start': 543.219, 'duration': 2.641}, {'end': 549.741, 'text': "I know, it's just a text model that predicts what word comes next.", 'start': 546.28, 'duration': 3.461}, {'end': 551.662, 'text': "But it didn't feel like it.", 'start': 550.741, 'duration': 0.921}, {'end': 559.406, 'text': "So at first I thought that pit-of-the-stomach existential dread feeling was because my brain had gone. that's a human or that's an alien intelligence?", 'start': 552.242, 'duration': 7.164}], 'summary': 'Chatgpt and coder felt equal in coding ability. model predicted wrong due to human error.', 'duration': 33.651, 'max_score': 525.755, 'thumbnail': 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of my videos on this channel is just a slightly faster version of the TV shows I watched growing up.', 'start': 640.698, 'duration': 4.922}], 'summary': 'Discussion on ai, art, and copyright, considering legal aspects and personal uncertainty.', 'duration': 26.987, 'max_score': 618.633, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/jPhJbKBuNnA/pics/jPhJbKBuNnA618633.jpg'}], 'start': 376.601, 'title': 'Ai in text transformation and programming', 'summary': 'Discusses the surprising capabilities of chatgpt as a text transformer and the impact of ai on programming, highlighting advancements, challenges, and the role of creativity in ai-generated content.', 'chapters': [{'end': 432.039, 'start': 376.601, 'title': 'Chatgpt: text transformer advancements', 'summary': "Discusses the surprising capabilities of chatgpt as a text transformer, highlighting its advancements and the author's initial skepticism, while also mentioning previous predictions about the development of language skills in computers.", 'duration': 55.438, 'highlights': ['ChatGPT is a text transformer that predicts the next word in a phrase, but its capabilities have surprised many people, including the author.', 'The author had previously made a joke about computers with language skills being ten years away, but now acknowledges that this has been solved.', "The video two years ago discussed the sentences computers can't understand but humans can."]}, {'end': 525.295, 'start': 432.119, 'title': "Ai's impact on programming", 'summary': 'Explores the experience of leveraging ai to write code, where the ai tool quickly produced a flawed script, yet with some guidance and corrections, it eventually generated the desired output, highlighting the challenges and benefits of utilizing ai in programming.', 'duration': 93.176, 'highlights': ['The AI tool quickly generated code but with errors, requiring guidance and corrections to produce the desired output, showcasing the challenges of using AI in programming.', "The AI tool fixed the script despite inaccuracies in Google's documentation, demonstrating its ability to adapt and work around limitations in existing resources.", 'The AI tool streamlined the coding process, saving time and effort in navigating through documentation and compensating for outdated coding skills.']}, {'end': 680.948, 'start': 525.755, 'title': 'Chatgpt: human vs ai coding', 'summary': 'Explores the experience of working with chatgpt as an ai coder, highlighting the challenges, including making mistakes, and questioning the role of creativity and copyright in ai-generated content.', 'duration': 155.193, 'highlights': ['The experience of working with ChatGPT as an AI coder felt about equal, with occasional mistakes made by both and a realization of wrong instructions affecting the outcome.', 'When given a more difficult problem, ChatGPT confidently failed in multiple obvious ways, raising questions about its capability and the potential impact on the job market.', 'The debate surrounding creativity, AI, art, and copyright is raised, emphasizing the potential legal and ethical implications of AI-generated content and the use of training data without consent.']}], 'duration': 304.347, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/jPhJbKBuNnA/pics/jPhJbKBuNnA376601.jpg', 'highlights': ["ChatGPT's surprising capabilities have surpassed the author's previous expectations.", 'The AI tool quickly generated code but with errors, showcasing the challenges of using AI in programming.', 'The experience of working with ChatGPT as an AI coder felt about equal, with occasional mistakes made by both.', 'The debate surrounding creativity, AI, art, and copyright is raised, emphasizing the potential legal and ethical implications of AI-generated content.']}, {'end': 936.015, 'segs': [{'end': 721.702, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 680.948, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 687.199, 'text': "I wasn't worried about being replaced and I wasn't worried that I was actually talking to some human-equivalent alien artificial intelligence.", 'start': 680.948, 'duration': 6.251}, {'end': 690.565, 'text': 'so why did I still have that feeling of dread?', 'start': 687.199, 'duration': 3.366}, {'end': 700.088, 'text': "Artificial intelligence, text transformers and diffusion models everything that we're currently seeing seems to be on that sigmoid curve of progress,", 'start': 692.685, 'duration': 7.403}, {'end': 702.99, 'text': "and I don't know what point on that curve we've got to.", 'start': 700.088, 'duration': 2.902}, {'end': 708.392, 'text': "If we're already most of the way up the curve, then cool programmers and artists have brand new tools,", 'start': 703.57, 'duration': 4.822}, {'end': 710.713, 'text': "but they can't create something at a human level with them.", 'start': 708.392, 'duration': 2.321}, {'end': 712.494, 'text': "It's not going to take many jobs.", 'start': 711.094, 'duration': 1.4}, {'end': 717.897, 'text': "it's going to make people's work more efficient, the same way that loads of inventions like Photoshop have done before.", 'start': 712.494, 'duration': 5.403}, {'end': 721.702, 'text': "If we're at the middle of that curve, then wow,", 'start': 718.857, 'duration': 2.845}], 'summary': "Uncertainty about ai's progress and impact on jobs and creativity.", 'duration': 40.754, 'max_score': 680.948, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/jPhJbKBuNnA/pics/jPhJbKBuNnA680948.jpg'}, {'end': 833.75, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 797.791, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 799.072, 'text': "It's about what it represents.", 'start': 797.791, 'duration': 1.281}, {'end': 805.836, 'text': "Because if we're still at the start of the curve for AI, if we're at the Napster point,", 'start': 799.892, 'duration': 5.944}, {'end': 812.161, 'text': 'then everything is about to change just as fast and just as strangely as it did in the 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'Discusses the uncertainty around the current progress of artificial intelligence, text transformers, and diffusion models, and their potential impact on jobs and human-level creation.', 'duration': 40.754, 'highlights': ['The uncertainty around the current progress of artificial intelligence, text transformers, and diffusion models and their potential impact on jobs and human-level creation.', "The potential of artificial intelligence to make people's work more efficient, similar to inventions like Photoshop, without necessarily taking many jobs.", 'The feeling of dread despite not being worried about being replaced or talking to human-equivalent alien artificial intelligence.']}, {'end': 797.451, 'start': 721.702, 'title': 'Ai impact on society', 'summary': 'Discusses the potential societal impact of ai advancements, drawing parallels between the evolution of music-sharing platforms and the increasing accessibility and use of ai technology by non-technical individuals.', 'duration': 75.749, 'highlights': ['The widespread use of AI technology by non-technical individuals is reminiscent of the way Napster revolutionized music sharing in the late 90s, as mentioned by the barber who used ChatGPT to write a formal email. The barber, a non-technical individual, used ChatGPT to write a formal email, drawing parallels to the way non-technical individuals utilized Napster for music sharing.', 'The potential societal impact of AI advancements is emphasized by the comparison of the changing music industry due to Napster with the lawsuits against AI art programs. The lawsuits against AI art programs echo the impact of Napster on the music industry, indicating a potential shift in the business models and societal norms due to AI advancements.', 'The concern that AI technology may significantly alter societal norms and business models is highlighted by the comparison of AI art systems to the impact of Napster in the late 90s. The comparison of AI art systems to the disruptive influence of Napster raises concerns about the potential transformation of societal norms and business models as a result of AI technology.']}, {'end': 936.015, 'start': 797.791, 'title': 'Ai impact on job security', 'summary': "Discusses the potential impact of ai on job security, expressing concern about the rapid and potentially disruptive changes in various industries, exemplified by the speaker's impending job loss and the shift in work dynamics due to advancements in technology.", 'duration': 138.224, 'highlights': ['The speaker expresses concern about the disruptive changes in various industries due to AI, exemplified by his impending job loss and the shift in work dynamics.', 'The speaker highlights the rapid and potentially disruptive changes that AI could bring to industries, reminiscent of the fast and drastic transformation experienced during the early 2000s.', 'The speaker discusses the worry and dread associated with the uncertainty of the future job landscape, emphasizing the unsettling feeling of change despite years of stability.']}], 'duration': 255.067, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/jPhJbKBuNnA/pics/jPhJbKBuNnA680948.jpg', 'highlights': ['The potential societal impact of AI advancements is emphasized by the comparison of the changing music industry due to Napster with the lawsuits against AI art programs.', 'The comparison of AI art systems to the disruptive influence of Napster raises concerns about the potential transformation of societal norms and business models as a result of AI technology.', 'The uncertainty around the current progress of artificial intelligence, text transformers, and diffusion models and their potential impact on jobs and human-level creation.', "The potential of artificial intelligence to make people's work more efficient, similar to inventions like Photoshop, without necessarily taking many jobs.", 'The concern that AI technology may significantly alter societal norms and business models is highlighted by the comparison of AI art systems to the impact of Napster in the late 90s.', 'The speaker discusses the worry and dread associated with the uncertainty of the future job landscape, emphasizing the unsettling feeling of change despite years of stability.']}], 'highlights': ['The rapid adoption of the internet led to significant changes in various industries, signaling a transformative period.', 'The mention of being in New Zealand and the realization that traditional conferences may not remain relevant in the face of impending technological changes signifies the global impact of the discussed transformation.', 'The speaker reflects on the exponential growth of useful technologies following a sigmoid curve, emphasizing the inevitability of radical change and uncertainty about the future.', 'The uncertainty about the future is highlighted, with the speaker expressing doubt about adapting to the impending technological revolution and the potential discomfort associated with the changing world.', "The frustration of adapting to Gmail's label system for email organization", 'The decision to treat labels like folders and minimize workflow changes by assigning one label to each thread', 'Google launched Gmail in 2004, which favored labels over traditional folders for email organization', 'The discovery of over 100,000 unlabelled messages in the email backup over 15 years', 'Using Google Apps Script to automate the fixing of the email backup issue with an hour of coding', 'The potential societal impact of AI advancements is emphasized by the comparison of the changing music industry due to Napster with the lawsuits against AI art programs.', 'The comparison of AI art systems to the disruptive influence of Napster raises concerns about the potential transformation of societal norms and business models as a result of AI technology.', 'The uncertainty around the current progress of artificial intelligence, text transformers, and diffusion models and their potential impact on jobs and human-level creation.', "The potential of artificial intelligence to make people's work more efficient, similar to inventions like Photoshop, without necessarily taking many jobs.", 'The debate surrounding creativity, AI, art, and copyright is raised, emphasizing the potential legal and ethical implications of AI-generated content.']}