-: Hi, I'm just gonna walk you
through ChatGPT Deep Research.
So it's a button here that you press
and you could do it with the different models.
In particular, if you have the $200 a month Pro account,
then it works really well
because the Pro model is much better
at thinking through things,
and then it can come up with better things to research.
Just going to ask a question here.
I use this primarily for researching scientific papers
or topics that I need to understand deeply.
So I'm gonna say, why didn't memetics
become a science versus cultural evolution,
which seems to have
become the dominant path
for studying evolution of ideas.
And when you submit,
quite often, it'll ask you specific questions
'cause it wants to get it right
and it is quite a lengthy process, so it is important
that you answer it.
Normally, I would actually spend a lot more time
on the prompt, pointing it in a few different directions,
but specifically why from an incentives point of view,
cultural evolution
adopted over memetics
by scientists.
Okay. And now it's doing the research.
It typically can take anywhere from a few minutes
to 10-20 minutes in some cases.
If you click on it, you can usually see
while it thinks, it's red.
On the right hand side here, you'll be able to see
what sources it looks at too.
Okay, you can see here that it's gone through one
of the sources already, this MIT source.
And it's telling you what it's looking at,
and it's gonna keep doing that for a while, keep thinking
and then keep going back to different sources.
It's actually writing the Google search queries in order
to find these sources as well,
which is what makes it so powerful.
And then it will decide when it has enough information
to give you your answer.
So it will think a lot longer for things
that are a bit more difficult
and it'll come back much more directly
if it gets an answer quicker.
Okay, it looks like we have everything back
and it did an astounding amount of work.
It looked at 28 different sources from Stanford
to like Wikipedia and neuroanthropology.net.
Tons of really interesting sources that you could always go
and check for yourself,
but it also gives you all the thinking that went into this
and I can understand its thought process as it comes on.
All right, so we have
like now a pretty comprehensive report.
One of the main things
is that memetics was less testable.
There's also more interdisciplinary integration
in cultural evolution.
And also, there were better institutional
and funding incentives
'cause it was easier to get at some of the big questions
of cultural evolution
with these existing funding mechanisms.
Yeah, pretty interesting.
You could go read all these references if you want.
You could also ask it more information
now it has these sources that it's found.
It could also go and add more stuff to it as well.
You could also ask it to summarize if you needed to.
Typically, I'll take this and I'll copy it
and I'll paste it into a Claude
and then I will ask Claude
to summarize it in a tweet or something like that.
Claude is a little bit more creative
and these reports end up being relatively dry,
but they are amazingly well researched
and that's the main reason
to use something like deep research.