His Dot traced the origin of an idea across 25 years of his writing
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My new ChatGPT Dot just did something that felt much closer to research than search. 🤖📚 A friend on X suggested a simple test: ask it to recall something from one of my books. So I asked where, across all my writing, it first encountered the idea that later became “The Path of Wildness.” It searched through the material I’d made available to it—including my books, other writing, and more than 25 years of email. Instead of simply finding the phrase, it distinguished between the earliest expression of the idea and the first time I actually named it, noticed conflicting dates, and connected an older passage to the philosophy I developed years later. That’s what impressed me. It wasn’t simply retrieving words—it was tracing an idea through decades of context. Whether that counts as “understanding” is a bigger question. But it certainly felt like more than a Google search. 🤖🧐
@softypapa (Kurt Bell) asked his ChatGPT Dot where, across all his writing — books, other writing, and 25+ years of email — he first encountered the idea that became "The Path of Wildness." The Dot searched the material, distinguished the earliest expression of the idea from the first time he named it, noticed conflicting dates, and connected an older passage to the philosophy he developed years later. Not just retrieving words — tracing an idea through decades of context.
