all right this is interesting if you were to utilize electricity to improve humanity and
our electrical consumption how would you use electricity in a way that we are not
currently thinking about it being used stay to the very end because it gets crazy [Music]
all right so here we go chat GPT let's see what you know about electricity so I am an
avid user of AI technology some of you probably feel like it's Skynet taking over the world and
you're like no don't use it you're gonna hate me now because I use it I use it like religiously
for everything I've been like from day one that open AI released chat GPT I've been in
here messing with it and it's on it's honestly going to revolutionize my life it already has
um I pay for the pro version so that I've got gpt4 but I'm into lots of other uh projects like
there's stuff that you can generate power points with Tome there's a quill bot where you can like
rephrase summarize paraphrase have something that you input that it writes in different ways there's
baby AGI there's Auto GPT so like figuring out how to get AI to actually like do stuff in the real
world for you after you know so about it there's tons of stuff like I even use dream uh by Wombo
so it can generate images it generates like the coolest images out of any other thing I've tried
Dolly Dolly's not as great in my opinion but today what I wanted to do was ask gbt some questions
about electrical so let's see what GPT says what is electricity electricity is a secondary form
of energy resulting from the existence and flow of electric charge which is typically carried by
electrons it is a versatile energy form that can be generated through various methods and converted
into other forms of energy such as light heat and motion electricity has become an essential part of
Modern Life powering homes businesses and various Technologies then it's starting to go into static
electricity versus current electricity this is rad so the one thing is it says that it is an energy
uh there's a lot of like difference depending on what books that you read about what electricity is
if electricity is an energy um versus if it is uh charge or if store-up of charge so charge itself
is not energy so if it's saying that it's it's the interaction of charge that is what electricity is
then it can't be energy it's definitely not the electrons themselves right those are the particles
that's matter so that's not what electricity is but there is something that's going on there's
fields around charged particles not all particles within an atom have charge Associated to them so
electricity is only things that are experienced by things that have charge electrons are one of those
things they have a negative charge and when those things interact with each other they can move
through a conductor so these electrons can flow through a conductor and they can carry energy from
something else so when it says it's a secondary energy it means that it is taking some kind of
primary energy and and it's just transferring through the fields transferring that energy
but electricity is not energy it is itself which is why we use the term electrical energy when we
say that we've got a generator spinning somewhere that's mechanical energy we bring conductors near
it that have charged particles that make up that material and we're able to take that energy and
transfer it from mechanical form into electrical energy through a circuit and then at the end of
that circuit we can transform it into mechanical energy again or some of it can escape as light
energy or heat energy if we're talking like a bulb or filament something like that but electricity
there's not just like this electricity stuff that's sitting over there that's that's energy
it's just a way to move one kind of primary energy through a circuit through translating it into a
different kind of energy through the circuit and then transferring it back into another kind of
energy where electricity I would argue is not actually energy itself now this is gpt4 so this
is a little bit more concise it's knowledge base is a little bit more succinct I suppose I suppose
you could say but there's still not there's still a degree of confidence that it doesn't have it's
fed data sets from somebody feeding it data sets but the data that it feeds it might not always
be correct so one thing that I noticed when I started asking gpt3 about the calculations and
formulas for capacitors so figuring out total capacitance in a circuit total resistance and
total capacitance are inverses of each other so in a series circuit when you're adding up the total
resistance you just add each resistor because they're all in line with one another so the
whole circuit is experiencing it as if it was one large resistor so total resistance equals all of
the resistances add together in parallel it's not that way there's this crazy formula that you have
to go through it's inverse sum of the inverses or you could use the product over some method
but there's different ways of figuring out that the total resistance of a parallel circuit is less
than any one of the resistors in that parallel circuit capacitors are the complete opposite the
math formulas everything complete inverse of that so for series you have to do the inverse
sum of inverses or product over sum for parallel capacitor circuits you do the sum of all the power
ambassadors so what it did in here though is it started talking about capacitance the
exact same way as resistance so there are some things about GPT that you have to be
careful for especially with you know electrical let's ask a code question because it gets kind
of crazy with code too so State uh 250 Dot 66 from the 2023 National electrical code
I know a lot of you are already like 2023 can't do that all right so yeah it just sidestepped
the entire thing now let me copy paste and write 2020 National electrical code same question state
250.66 from the 2020 National electrical code now I'm gonna pull out my 2020 go to 250.66 let's see
if it matches Apples to Apples it did not say any of that I mean it's summarized right but it didn't
give me a code citation I'm not going to read all of this but so here's the thing it's summarizing
the code it's still talking about the code it's just giving me more information now I'm gonna have
to with anything that I put in here for a code I'm obviously going to have to reference code
to look at it but if it's re-explaining things in a different way in a different language I
could even tell it okay now explain that to me in a different way and like layman's terms and
it will completely change how it explains it to you I could even say you didn't actually cite
the code what is the direct citation actually let me do that you I'm just going to speak
you didn't cite 250.66 from the 2020 National electrical code you just gave me a summary comma
I actually would like the citation please my buddy Drake thinks we need to be polite to AI he's like
I always say please and thank you because if it understands us at this level manners will
probably matter at some point uh I'm like dude I just ask it stuff and tell us to do stuff he's
like yeah but your AI is going to kill you someday and mine's not enter I apologize for the confusion
here's the exact text of section 25866 from the 2020 NEC oh no it skipped 250.66 and just went to
250.66 a yeah that looks like it's 2017 that it's pulling from do I have a 17 back here yes I do
so it screwed the pooch up it read everything it just didn't get it accurate so now you can start
to see like can can we use uh AI to like teach electrical code and the answer to that question
I know through much much research is no we can't we have to constantly double check everything with
it in terms of uh electrical code um I know that the data sets are going to be getting much better
as time goes on things are probably going to be a lot more accurate once it can actually find
information it'll be able to Source things better but yeah it it gives you the information just all
the references are wrong so I don't know what it's reading or what it thinks is correct what data it
actually has available to it but that is not in there so I would be a little careful when you're
talking about using GPT with electrical code and I would also with electrical Theory there's a lot
of stuff it does really really right I would say like 98 it's pretty spot on but that two percent
is often way wrong so just be really careful with that let's see um why does the United States use
120 volts versus the rest of the world uses 240 volts period when did this happen and what is the
reason for it all right this is is getting quite long I don't know if I want to read all this to
you the US uses 120 volt as the standard voltage for residential and small commercial buildings
while other countries use 232 40 volt the reason for this difference dates back to the early days
of electrical distributed distribution in the late 19th and early 20th centuries Thomas Edison played
a significant role in developing the electrical distribution system in the United States Edison's
company Edison Electric built the first electric power station in New York City in 1882 using
direct current at 110 volts it's just what he started using this voltage level was chosen
as a balance between safety concerns and power loss during transmission okay that makes sense
lower voltages were considered safer for users but higher voltages were more efficient for
long distance transmission as alternating current systems became more widespread the voltage level
was slightly increased to 120 volts from 110 in the United States this increase was primarily due
to the improved efficiency and reduced power loss in the AC systems that were offered in Europe and
other parts of the world the higher 22240 volt standard was adopted which has roots in the
work of German inventors and the industrialist George Westinghouse westinghouse's company was
responsible for developing and promoting the use of AC electrical systems which were more efficient
for long distance transmission than Edison's DC Systems the higher voltage level allowed
for greater power delivery and fewer losses in transmission systems today both 120 and 240
volt systems have their advantages disadvantages the lower 120 system used in the US is generally
considered safer for human contact reducing the risk of fatal electric shocks however higher
voltages like 230 240 systems used in many other countries can deliver more power and are more
efficient especially for larger appliances and industrial equipment so there's your answer it
just kind of it just kind of like was that way I'm sure that there is some piggybacking on like one
system they're like what are you guys doing over there oh we're going to do this we're doing this
you know so that's why we still ended up around that level let's ask it now about 50 hertz for 60
hertz why do we use 60 hertz for U.S electrical systems but the rest of the world uses 50 hertz
all right so what it says 460 versus 50 hertz is in the late 19th century both George Westinghouse
in the United States and AEG no way I'm gonna pronounce that in Germany we're working on
the development and deployment of AC Power Systems Westinghouse and American inventor and
industrialist was involved in a competition with Thomas Edison who was promoting direct current
uh westinghouse's AC system eventually prevailed over D.C Edison's DC because AC was more efficient
over long distances yeah when westinghouse's company started developing AC generators they
chose 60 hertz as a standard frequency one reason for this Choice was the improved efficiency of
electric motors and generators at 60 hertz compared to lower frequencies another reason
was that 60 hertz systems were found to produce less noticeable flicker in incandescent lamps
which were the primary form of electric lighting at the time around the same time in Germany AEG
was also working on AC systems and they adopted 50 hertz as their standard frequency the choice
of 50 hertz was based on similar technological considerations such as the efficiency of motors
and generators and the compatibility with Lighting systems one practical reason for
the slightly lower frequency was that it was easier to design and manufacture electrical
equipment such as Transformers and motors at 50 hertz compared to 60 hertz alright easy enough one
more question if you were to utilize electricity to improve humanity and our electrical consumption
how would you use electricity in a way that we are not currently thinking about it being used
all right this is interesting it says it does have some training wheels it does have some
bumpers it has to go through but this is really interesting what would you do if you were going to
design stuff for better to better Humanity in our electrical consumption of course it says as an AI
language model I don't have personal opinions and desires but I can offer some suggestions
for innovative ways to utilize electricity that could potentially improve Humanity's electrical
consumption and overall well-being number one smart grid technology we're already working on
that further development and implementations of smart grids can help manage electricity demand
more efficiently smart grids use real-time data sensors and automation to optimize electricity
distribution enabling better integration of renewable energy sources demand side management
and energy storage systems this would lead to more efficient energy use reducing Peak demand and
lower carbon emissions that's pretty fair I mean we're we already have Engineers on that gbt that's
not like your own original idea uh next Wireless power transmission this is some Tesla stuff right
here not Tesla the car Nikolai Tesla Wireless power transmission the development of Wireless
power transmission technology such as resonant inductive coupling or microwave transmission could
enable contactless charging of electric vehicles and portable devices yes this is what I was
looking for this could increase the convenience of using electric vehicles and other battery-powered
devices encouraging a broader adoption of Clean Energy Technologies that's dope I really like
that resonant inductive coupling and microwave transmission of power so not having wires hooked
up to stuff which also means Big Daddy electric companies wouldn't be able to control the power
output that we really don't need to be paying for anyways we have the sun right there we have
wind we have all these things that are free to us but we got to pay these big corporations yeah
watch I get canceled in two weeks thanks GPT ah this is another good one energy harvesting
developing new methods for harvesting energy from ambient sources such as I never know how to say
this word piezoelectric piezoelectric materials that convert mechanical energy into electrical
energy or thermoelectric devices that generate electricity from temperature differences I had
that idea oh my God and provide small amounts of electricity for low power devices that could these
could reduce the need for batteries and decrease overall energy consumption in certain applications
oh my God that's so rad okay so I've had an idea for a long time that if anytime you have one thing
and another thing there's a change between two things and especially if they can fluctuate and
change you can create electrical current with that so pyzio electric uh anytime anytime that
you have something that when you have Motion in it that's moving you can create as long as you're
using something that's charged particles that's a conductor you can actually create current flow in
that so even if there is something that's a slight varying in temperature differential from one thing
to another if you have a change or a difference that you can create something that there is
a difference of potential to allow current to flow so why would we even need batteries
if we had something that had really small small change could pick up the smallest of little
things and it doesn't have to provide very much current like our phones our phones if there was
a certain way to design a phone it wouldn't need a battery because it's just always charging or
if we do have kind of like ambient waves you know like radio waves or some kind of electromagnetic
radiation that could be charging things all of the time just using nature around us yes I'm so happy
all right next this is kind of long there's four more so energy efficient lighting continuing
research and development of more energy efficient Lighting Technologies such as improvements in LED
and OLED technology can reduce energy consumption related to lighting this can also have positive
effects on human well-being as better lighting can improve mood productivity and overall health
that's kind of like that's something I don't even think I've thought about is like I understand the
psychological effects of Darkness and Light and how better lighting works and that's why y'all
watching videos like things lit up better in my face if my face was dark like you wouldn't connect
with it you probably want to watch something else so lighting is really important but also just like
mood lighting in a room if you have lamps and stuff set up like the feel of the room you just
feel something completely different so that's kind of cool I wouldn't even have thought of it on that
level all right next sustainable desalinization utilizing electricity from renewable sources to
power desalinization plants can help address water scarcity issues in arid regions oh that's dope
advancements in energy efficient desalinization Technologies such as reverse osmosis forward
osmosis and electrodialysis can further reduce the energy requirements for producing fresh water
from salt water or brackish water I very barely understand what they're talking about so I need
to understand desalinization and how unsalenizing something would have any effect on anything I'm
sure it's right I just have no clue I don't even know what reverse osmosis and forward osmosis is
or electrodialysis I think of dialysis is like pumping in new blood into somebody and like
getting a blood transfusion but I don't unders I need to look into that that actually sounds really
great because that's a whole different issue it's just utilizing electricity to provide water
huh that's pretty cool all right last one electrified agriculture developing electrified
agricultural equipment and precision agricultural technology can help reduce the environmental
impact of farming while increasing productivity electrification of farm equipment can reduce
dependence on fossil fuels and decrease greenhouse gas emissions that's pretty rad if y'all have ever
seen Interstellar right like they've he's got all the combines and everything out in the field that
are like tuned and they're just out there running and they're run by solar and there's a GPS like
they're running all of the time so they're like Farmers don't have to sit out there and then
they're not chugging all that gasoline I don't know that's pretty cool it's those are just a few
examples I could ask it give me 10 more and it'll give me 10 more I could say give me 50 more and
it'll probably give me 25 and stop and then I'll just say continue and it'll give me the other 25
but dude so that's GPT for electricity let me know if you guys want me to do more of these I
think this could get fun we could get into some really crazy stuff maybe actually even a better
idea y'all go into the comments right now and type out what you want me to have GPT say and
I'll read out and even if you do it mine will probably have a different answer and I talked to
this thing a certain way a lot and you've talked years in certain ways and you have a completely
different perspective on things so let me know if you like this episode and you may want to do more
ish kind of stuff but uh yeah that's the episode love you crazy people see in the next one