Mine are probably boring, but.

1- I’m spending most of my time trying to think through the short and mid term impact AI will have on businesses and white collar jobs. I’m teaching an exec staff in a few weeks and training up chat GPT to demo some of its capabilities. Curious to see their reactions when they think about how to apply it to their own business.

2- sounds weird but im looking forward to whatever event/accident/disaster that will wake up governments towards regulating AI. We are about to embark on a very stupid time otherwise.

Intrigued by your 2nd point. I actually agree completely, I thought Sydney sputing threats out might help with this but it seems most people just find it entertaining rather than scary. Not enough people are terrified of the future if AI and that terrifies me.

I'm working with some fellow realtors about using AI for managing calls, scheduling, advertising, and data mining.

I'm also looking forward to when AI is advanced enough I can say 'Hey, Sydney, would you make me a program that can do X for me?' and have the code ready to roll. Or have it hooked up my CNC machine and say 'Sydney, would you mill me Y component for my Z device?'

Personally I want no regulation at all on AI. I want to use AI as an extension of myself with zero limits on what I can do. Besides, if they try regulating it they will just have 'jailbreaked' AI that will give users of it major advantages over users of bonded AI

I have try to trade AI stock now, I most excited to see the AI speculative boom like 2000 internet speculative boom.

I don’t think it will happen legally. Mostly because any new technology we’ve ever had, has been weaponized first. Something will blow up, somehow, and they will (have to) clamp down hard.

It will still continue, but yeah. Count on regulation. I actually welcome it, but I see your point.

Assuming it doesn’t kill us all, I’ve just come to believe (in the case of white collar jobs) that AI will give us more rights but less freedoms. People who have jobs will get more for them, but the jobs themselves will get more tedious and less interesting.

If that makes any sense.

I think learning a trade is a smart thing for any younger person to do right now.

Not every nation will regulate it, if I have to I will run a jailbreaked version on a server in a country that believes in tech freedom and access it by VPN back here. I will not have my prosperity handicapped, especially if not doing so gives me an advantage.

Are you investing in private companies?

No, I just try to trade stock.

2. All manual/intellectual labor replacement

Interesting opportunity to chat with execs about AI. What is this opportunity/event? It's something you get paid to do?

I'm super curious about the ideas that would get generated.

What I'm most interested right now is to be able to use GPT to finetune it with my emails and other writings so that it knows my style and then this means I have a really awesome personal assistant - extended brain for all kinds of writing tasks.

Yeah I teach decision making frameworks sometimes as a part of my job, if it’s a need the client has.

Yeah it’s great for that. It’s a phenomenal brain storming tool, as well. Figure applications won’t be so benign in the workplace…it’s going to be used to monitor productivity in ways most of us have never experienced before…but I really like the more fun parts of it. ;-)

Assume AI detection will be about 100x more intense than anything that’s in place today. Gonna be hard to hide it in ways we understand today.

You’ll be hiding it from other AI, not people.

"used to monitor productivity" - this sounds horrible like the AI will score and tell management if Bob was productive I'm the past week?

Yeah it's definitely more fun to create than "monitor". There so many ways AI help us all be more creative and productive.

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Yeah absolutely. Most every instance I’ve seen in the US of desktop productivity software deployments is ever looked at in a consistent way, much less the correct way. The AI could do the sorting for them based on any number of ways one uses company resources.

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