AI in the Bee Yard: Getting Started with AI for Beekeepers

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AI in the Bee Yard.

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This will be fun to talk about in a short and a short series

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I mean maybe at the end of our conversation

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AI will be talking for us, Jeff.

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Oh, you know, that would be good.

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Wait, it would be good?

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I don't I don't want AI to to take our jobs.

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Hey

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Yeah, that's true.

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That's true.

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But

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but you

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also, so

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the

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what's kind of spurred us in this direction was a great article that you had uh

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in

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September

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's Bee

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Culture.

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Were you interviewed ChatGPT

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about beekeeping?

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Yes, I I started thinking

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about

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AI and how beekeepers were going to use it

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and

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It was

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it was kind of interesting because I

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I

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tested

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ChatGPT, which is an

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AI chatbot.

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And I started testing it by asking questions that I 100%

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knew the answer to, or giving it tasks that would just maybe help with organization.

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And

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I immediately found that

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although a great tool, one

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needed to learn how to use

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these chatbots, I think,

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so that they're for their advantage, not a potential disadvantage

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I I agree 100%.

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Uh you know me, I'm a um

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I I'm a

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I like using technology.

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You like technology, yep.

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I like technology.

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I always say I have it's not a new thing, it's not a new acquisition

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And and so the whole AI has really turned a lot of the technology around in

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terms of it's adding

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a

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layer on top of technology.

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And what it does is is is being able to

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I don't want to say think

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for me, which some people might think that's an improvement, but it's

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it's the

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it's the ability to to to

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to

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have uh a third set of eyes uh on on reviewing my assumptions or my beliefs

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or challenge what I'm thinking or saying.

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It's like having another team member.

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Yeah, it's interesting

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because I think

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I think we should say first off,

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even before we get into

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some of the the definite benefits

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But

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AI is controversial and and beekeepers are all about controversy.

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I mean it could be uh

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people could be

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definitely against AI because of the environmental impacts of using

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the the AI

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to

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to um

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to answer questions that maybe they could have figured out themselves

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or um

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people are

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are worried about AI taking jobs away.

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And so there are there are some definite

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concerns, environmental and

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personnel

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and

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um

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and also

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AI is not always right.

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And

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and

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no

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and one of and one of my

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my favorite

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just

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when I've been doing these comf

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having these conversations, trying to figure out exactly how how AI

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might work for beekeepers.

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I

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I laugh

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because th the

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the AI chatbot

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will often refer to itself as a beekeeper.

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And so I'll be like

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So do you really keep these?

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And and it would say, oh, I shouldn't have said that, and it'll kind of correct itself and and and just talk about uh the access that that it has to

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information.

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But

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but there will be definite

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I I have

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called

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I've called AI

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on a number of of

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just

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statements that it just aren't aren't true.

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So that's

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that's kind of the negative.

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But like why don't you share

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maybe some of the positive that you've found?

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Well,

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before we

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even

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talk about the the positive things about

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it, I just want to

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restate that we're not looking to

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replace

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Training with

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AI.

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Training does uh

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an AI does not take place over a good mentor

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Uh it doesn't take

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uh

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take over

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take place of a I don't know, I'll say a good book.

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Oh, there you go.

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Exactly.

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Or

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nor does it take over a good

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podcast.

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it is

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it it it be

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it can become an assistant or

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suppl

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supplement

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to

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those other

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well-founded sources of of beekeeper

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information.

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The

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the things that AI does well, it can

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it likes to create spreadsheets.

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So

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if

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if you like to do

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if you like to keep track of things in spreadsheets or tables

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It can do that.

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So like for mic counts.

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So if you want to do

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mic count, let's say you're doing OAV

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vapors or you're doing anything

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and you're going to do

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mic washes or mic counts.

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Instead of keeping them on a piece of paper, it can, you can enter into

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chat, have it

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develop a

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spreadsheet or a table.

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And it can keep track of that for you.

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So, you know, your

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an initial wash, your

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initial drop, 24 hours, 48, 72

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And and and you can keep track of that by hive, and then you can do all sorts of graphs or do whatever else you want to or do nothing with it.

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It can also

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help organize your

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your thoughts.

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So if you were to

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uh go through your hive and

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and do

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inspections, you can talk into your recorder on your mobile device, your phone, and

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have

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that translated

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and then give that to chat and chat can organize that into hive inspections.

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And there's in fact

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applications for

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phones that will do that for you, such as our friends at HiveTracks

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now have that capability

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There are many good things that AI can do for a beekeeper in the bee yard and once they get home

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at uh

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in their home office.

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I I like that AI has access to all the scientific research literature out there

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and all the extension literature out there.

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So

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they

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they go deep as far as uh

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if you are looking for a specific citation

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or you heard something

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You can sometimes get to the bottom of it by asking AI to find that reference

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and then you can know it where

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you know

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a certain honey bee fact or management idea came from.

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I also

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I like

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the fact that

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it's very good at statistics

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and

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and so that's a that's something uh

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I haven't used a lot, but it's just it's so

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it's very, very powerful as far as that's concerned.

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It's

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so interesting.

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that I think with beekeeping, we're just at the very beginning of

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figuring out how to use AI

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for beekeeper benefit.

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You can go into a chat bot right now

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and you can say, I'm looking into potential grant funding

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for

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uh honey bee research.

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And

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and you can it

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can come up with different sources of uh

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or or maybe you want to look for grant funding for habitat planting.

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And you can actually look for resources that will help you get there.

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And then

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Jeff, the crazy thing is you can actually ask chat or another AI chatbot to help you write that grant.

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So

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it's just

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it it really does save people

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some

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some time, but you have to make sure that you your eyes are on it

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to make sure that

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It's not making anything up.

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Always, always, always treat them as

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maybe a student or an intern.

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So

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you ask them to do some information, but you always

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double check it and make sure it's it's

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it's correct

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because if you go out there and say, hey, I did this

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and ask, I don't know, some of those at

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attorneys that may have

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you know, made the news by

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preparing legal briefs by chat.

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Um

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that

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it's it it can make things up.

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So you don't want to put your name

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yeah.

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And and you can ask all the chat bots, you know, w

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name your reference.

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Give me the reference that you are citing for this, and then double check those.

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Because they hallucinate and they make things up.

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And I

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we're only gonna we're only kinda talking about that first article.

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I I do wanna for sure talk about the second article that I ha I

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put together for

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bee culture eventually.

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But but what I will say is that f

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when

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I

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ha

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wrote both of those articles, I was always very careful to also ask

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Ask the AI chatbots, how do I reference you?

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Because I think that one of the best ways to use AI is not secretly, and to to make sure that we we give it credit.

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just

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so that

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you don't get in trouble

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for either y

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saying something that maybe isn't true or you also just

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acknowledge it kind of show your work if that makes sense.

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And

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I

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I

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I do believe that there are um, you know, maybe not in some classes, some, you know, high school classes or college classes, but I I believe that

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that

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There are a lot of different places where using AI is is very acceptable

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as far as putting together, for example, a grant application.

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I don't think that everybody thinks that's a bad thing.

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And I think

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I think if you can figure out how to communicate more clearly using

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that

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technology, that's fantastic.

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I think that that that can be really helpful.

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I'm curious

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how did

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how did

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the chat bot tell you how to reference it so

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reference the information it provided you

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it's

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I I'd have to oh you

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you asked me a question.

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I wish I had it in front of me

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Jeff

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It

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it it's funny because in in some

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some instances

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it

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it

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told me I didn't need to, but I always said I wanted to.

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I so I've done a number of different chatbots and it would give me the chatbot name.

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and then sometimes the company name.

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And

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and if I

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right

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there was there was one where I I looked, I had it made it make an illustration.

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that I'll talk about later, but I gave it a picture, an imperfect picture, because there was a beautiful honey bee, but it was on

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it was on half of a flower.

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It fixed the flower in the in the picture.

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But then when I asked it to credit

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to credit, you know, for the for the illustration, it credited

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um

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itself

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and then it said

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with um

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with the photo provided by Rebecca Masterman or something

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something like that.

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So but it it it kind of it kind of gave

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Just some some good guidance.

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But I will say, and this is so hard as a writer because I write monthly for bee Culture, and I've never used

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I've never used AI for writing because

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it's too sc

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it's too scary

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because

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what happens is

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even in when I'm asking chat and

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or or the other AI chatbots, I I was really upfront about what I was doing as far as writing articles.

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But um

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and looking for quotes.

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And so but it was it was funny because it immediately wanted to write the whole article for me.

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It immediately laid it out and it told me what to say.

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And I kept saying, No, I

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I want to just say what your answers are.

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I don't want you to write the article.

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But it

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it became really clear that it's

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it's

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it's very ready and it's almost trained to write for you

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because I would just have to ignore it

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kept telling me

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how to say it and it also would like tell me how to

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how to do the article

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and I just kept ignoring that

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because

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I I wanted to make sure that it was me writing the article

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and and and not AI.

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But I think that's

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it's just interesting because I I f

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Finally, Jeff, I finally found a great place for any kind of a typo or misspelling that that are in my articles.

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They're just proof that I'm the one writing them.

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This is how you can verify this is not AI.

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Find the error.

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Find the find the

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comma that's not supposed to be there.

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Go ahead.

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That's true.

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Well we

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we've talked about

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where it's AI can be used

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real briefly

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and and we've real briefly talked about some of the the cautionary tales about AI, it hallucinates, it can make things up.

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it can assume

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things that you may or may not have told her.

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What do you like to do with AI when you're using it to make sure that you receive the information?

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that you can

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lean on or that that you can believe in?

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That's a good question.

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I'm very nervous about the information.

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I've actually had AI

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translate an article for me that was in old German.

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And

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and and very carefully

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because

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it had to be reined in

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and and it it

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and when I would

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I would clarify, are you sure that that there's a sentence that says this?

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Sometimes it would take a step back and say, well, I

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I kind of provided an interpretation, but here's what it said.

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So it it will give you the information, but you do have to

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really

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make sure that

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it's not

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literally just telling you what you want to hear

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because

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that I don't I haven't found the setting.

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I haven't looked for it.

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But but the

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if people have never used a chatbot before, you will find them to be very friendly

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and you will find them to be very engaging

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and there are settings where you can take it down a notch or two

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so that

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it doesn't seem like it's trying to have a relationship with you

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or it's friends with you.

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But I finally got a chatbot to start swearing.

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So I kind of think that's a victory.

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But

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Oh, there's a

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goal.

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Wait.

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Okay, sorry everybody.

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But it I thought it was kind of like

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whoa.

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But

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but I do think it's um

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It

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it's

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making sure you're you're going back and asking the question.

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If you see something that maybe doesn't see

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that seems too easy or

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too good to be true, questioning it makes sense.

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And I I will say for that article

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When I asked the Chapot

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to, for example, look at a picture of something that was going on in the colony, it got it wrong.

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It it made some guesses and I get why it did it.

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But but it it did not see what I was actually seeing.

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And so

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don't believe everything you read.

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Well, I

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just real quick along those lines and to support what you're saying.

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This last summer I thought

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Hey, I'm gonna try this with

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with chat

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and uh

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because

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I when I do my

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look at my IPM boards,

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I'll often take a picture of them.

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And

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and then go home when I'm later in the evening or later in the day, I'll go and look at it on on the big screen

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on the computer, and then I can count the mites

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a little bit better, especially if it's about to rain.

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And

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so

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I thought, hey, I can take these photos and give them to Chat and say, count the mites

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for me.

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So I said, Chat, can you do this?

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Oh yes, my friend

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Jeff, I can do that very well.

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And I said, well, great, buddy

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chat.

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Let's let's I'm gonna start feeding you these photos.

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And it says, do it, man, do it.

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I can do all of this for you.

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And I said, Chat, you're my best pal.

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And so I

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I got this going

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and and I and I was feeding it to Chat and Chat, oh this is great.

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This is great, Jeff.

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This is really good.

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This is the number here.

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Uh

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in fact what I'm doing, I'm gonna tell you the number I count

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And that I'm definite

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or

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are are mites.

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And then I'll tell you what I think might be mites, but I'm not sure.

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So those are un

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unsure.

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All right.

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I said,

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chat, man, you are the best.

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And I'm not even paying you for this.

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And

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And

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chat was like, Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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let's do it.

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Give 'em to me.

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So I got back and then I started looking at him, looking at him, and I said, Well

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What hey chat

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can you go back through this and circle the mites?

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Uh-huh.

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Oh yes, I can do that, Jeff.

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I'd I want to make you happy, Jeff.

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I said, great.

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Let's

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I'm looking forward to it.

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So

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chat sent me back this picture and all these little blue circles on it and I started looking for

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little

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blue circles.

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There was nothing in the center of those little blue circles.

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Zero, zero mites.

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Mites all over the place.

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I said, well, chat, and

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so I sat down there and painsakingly did red circles around all the real mics that I could

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find.

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I I said, Chat, take a look at this.

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These are the real mics.

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And so I sent it back to chat and chat

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sent

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sent

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writes back to me and says, Oh, well, I might have

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maybe I'm not doing it right.

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Let me take another look at this.

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And

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then it it

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you know,

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the little alliance

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is

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thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking, thinking.

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And it

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kinda finally comes back and says, I can't do that.

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And so

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it's like, well,

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WTF chat, I

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we've spent all this time and you're doing all these spreadsheets and everything and you're just making this stuff up and the chat says, you know

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I I can't do that, it's beyond my capabilities, and it's just like

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you could have led with that, Jack.

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Oh that's

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you could have led with that.

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So

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Folks,

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as we wrap up the first

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segment

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of many on AI, there's a couple things is that

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chat is a tool.

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like

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anything else that's in your hive

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in your hive bucket or

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in your toolbox.

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And and its

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effectiveness is only as good as the tool is designed and how you use it.

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And so it

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It's not magic.

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It's not God in a box.

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It's it is a tool.

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And

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and

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and it's

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You have to use it very carefully and judiciously

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and m

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and don't trust it.

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Don't trust it.

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And

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you've

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said some very, I think, wise words

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is that that it's evolving.

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So

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so the capacity for chat

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or an AI bot to circle those mites

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Is

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going to change over time.

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And

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it's going to get better at looking at pictures and it's going to get better at

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figuring out what it's looking at.

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There's no

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doubt

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that

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in

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ten

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years, every I think

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beekeeping course is going to talk about the use of AI.

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I I think it's just it's it's a tool that we're just starting to talk about, but it's really important

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that we

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we

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start figuring out some guidance and start figuring out some of the great possibilities um

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that we have using AI.

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I agree and I look forward to exploring AI more in

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future

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AI shorts

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and

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um

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yeah

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this will be good

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and if folks if you

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if you're sitting there and you have an idea about what you wanted to hear us talk about on these future

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in this series

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let us know

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and uh and if you have any fun stories

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let

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send us a note

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to

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and

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maybe can use those.

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Thank you

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Becky for joining today.

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Absolutely this was a lot of fun.

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Now I gotta ask Chad

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about how I end this episode.