Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • Mind Readings: What Will Make Or Break Spatial Computing

    Mind Readings: What Will Make Or Break Spatial Computing

    In today’s episode, we dive into the concept of spatial computing and its potential implications. Apple’s new goggles, Apple vision Pro, introduce their take on virtual reality and spatial computing. However, the success of these devices relies heavily on addressing latency issues, both in motion and input. Latency can break the immersive experience and affect the device’s usability. While Apple has a track record of delivering seamless user interfaces, the crucial factor will be how well they handle motion and touch interactions within the virtual space. Join me as we explore the significance of latency and its impact on the future of spatial computing. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button if you’re interested in this evolving technology.

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    Today let’s talk about an uncomfortable reality with large language models.

    That uncomfortable reality is this.

    The safer you make them, the less creative and useful they are.

    Yep.

    Here’s why and trigger warning for profanity, there will be profanity in this video.

    We use language as humans in all sorts of ways.

    But things like profanity, for example, is part of our language.

    The more that you have to censor a model, the more that you have to censor a piece of software to say to tell it don’t do these things, the more you constrain what it can do, and in the process, it loses context.

    Here’s what I mean.

    Remember that these models are nothing more than prediction engines, even the most sophisticated ones, the biggest models like GPT-4 from OpenAI, or palm two from Google with like, what 570 billion parameters.

    They’re just prediction engines.

    If I say I pledge allegiance to the, the prediction engines gonna come up with a list of anywhere between five and 40 different alternatives for the next word is going to score them by probability, and almost certainly the probability is gonna be near 100%.

    For the word flag, because I pledge allegiance to the flag is a very common sentence.

    When these models are trained on data that has been scraped up from around the web, among other sources, it builds statistical relationships from one word to the next.

    So for example, if I say I’m brewing the, depending on the context, the words that it was trained on, and the words that I’ve mentioned my prompt, it’ll choose a word like coffee, or tea or beer or the fall of capitalism.

    And in doing so, it’s relying on the patterns in language that it learned on input.

    If you look at a lot of the training libraries, explicitly declared or implicitly declared from big companies, for example, in in an interview with Lex Friedman, Mark Zuckerberg had said that the Facebook llama model was trained on data from Facebook’s many services, right, facebook, whatsapp, Instagram, etc.

    What’s embedded in most people’s language? Yeah, profanity, racism, bias, you name it.

    Particularly if you’re drawing from Facebook, I mean, there’s a whole bunch of people there who think that the world is still flat, which is mind blowing.

    And because it’s ingesting those patterns and language, if you then have to go back and say, don’t say X, or Y, or Z, you’re essentially handicapping the model, you are handicapping the model.

    And it’s not just going to stop using words you don’t want it to use, but it’s also going to have to adapt and figure out how to use words in less creative ways that don’t evoke those topics.

    So if you say, understandably, incorrectly, hey, don’t be racist.

    And there’s a good chunk of racist text that was fed into the model.

    Suppressing that not only suppresses racist language as you would normally want to, but it also impacts all the other words that are used in that context.

    And it impacts their overall probabilities.

    If I say, Go fuck yourself, all right.

    And then we say, You know what, let’s not use the word voc.

    There is a statistical relationship.

    In that sentence between the word go, the word fuck, and the word yourself.

    And if you see that a lot, and it’s a very common phrase, right? GF why these words are associated with each other.

    Now, if I suppress it, or try to remove or censor that the word voc and you’re left with Go yourself, which makes no sense, right? And it breaks the probabilities around those words.

    So those words go and yourself are actually going to be negatively impacted by the suppression of the profanity.

    To get it, how these words are related to each other.

    And the more you censor words, the more you have to come up with alternatives that may not be as good.

    Now, clearly, and let’s be very, very clear.

    It’s a good idea if you’re going to be using any of these models, particularly in any kind of professional context, to censor things like racism, and bigotry and hate speech and substantial profanity.

    But you also have to understand that it will cause computational problems in these models.

    How do you get around this? The short answer is if it wasn’t in the training data to begin with, it wouldn’t be a problem on the output side, but we don’t have control over how these models are trained.

    And there are very few companies that can actually build these things that have enough data to do the training like Google or Facebook or OpenAI.

    And so we have to essentially handicap the models on their outputs.

    Now, I believe there are probably some technological solutions to do this better that the industry isn’t talking about enough yet, I believe there are some interesting things being done with adversarial models, which basically say, you know, here’s what I’m looking for you to not do, and sort of getting into arguments, semantic and metaphorically, with, with the language model, to help it to not do those things more.

    But if you want maximum creativity, you would have to use a model that has also is has problematic concepts and textin.

    It Right.

    If you want to maximize what a model can do, you will probably have to accept that you’ll use a model that has a higher potential to say things you don’t want to say, right? So you’ll want have to build some gatekeeping in on on its outputs to say to to inspect outputs, and so that the model can be as creative as it wants to be, and then can get smacked down later on in the pipeline.

    So yeah, let’s we’re not going to generate the sentence back for generation over time, I suspect companies.

    And if I had to guess, company, my guess would be IBM, because they’re not known for being first to market.

    But they’re typically known for being best to market, particularly on the Enterprise stuff.

    I would expect companies like IBM to say, hey, we’re going to build a custom model that doesn’t include profanity, that doesn’t include racism, and bigotry and homophobia, we’re going to exclude those things from the source training data to begin with, so that it’s not there on the output, and the output side can’t be there on the output side, because it didn’t exist on the input side.

    And that’s what we’ll have to do to if we want models that are have not had their, their creativity handicapped, but also have not taken problematic texts and concepts with them.

    So the bottom line is if you want creativity, you also have to accept a model that has problematic text.

    If you want a model to behave professionally, you’re going to have to handicap it significantly and the outputs may be lower quality as a result, that’s the current trade off as the time they’ll mid year 2023 That I’m recording this.

    It’s entirely possible tomorrow, this could all changed by the way so it’s worth keeping your ear to the ground to see what other things are likely going to happen to help these models become smarter, and more professional.

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    Today, let’s talk about spatial computing.

    So this is a term that Apple came up with, with the launch of its new goggles, Apple vision Pro, and the idea that of spatial computing.

    Now, this is not a new field by any means.

    If you are familiar with Google Cardboard, or the Oculus headset and HTC Vive and all these other companies that make these, these virtual reality environments, spatial computing is basically Apple’s spin on virtual reality.

    Now, here’s the thing that I’m wondering about this is purely wondering, because I’ve not had a chance to test these devices.

    The local Apple Store obviously does not have them yet.

    So there’s no way to know.

    But the issue with spatial computing has not really necessarily been about image quality, or immersion so much as latency.

    So latency is one of the biggest problems within virtual reality within spatial computing.

    There’s and there’s a couple of different kinds, right there is there’s motion latency where if you are if you’re wearing this thing right on your head, and you turn your head, does the image move in sync with your body? Right? If there’s even the slightest delay, you notice, you can feel oh, that’s kind of weird, right.

    So that’s certainly one aspect.

    But the other aspect is input latency.

    And input latency is when you are doing stuff.

    So Apple’s device supposedly uses eye movement tracking, and your hands, the Oculus can use that.

    It also also has these controllers, right, so you use these controllers to control what you’re doing.

    And even these have a little bit of lag, not a ton.

    But it’s enough to break the illusion, it’s enough to, to to sort of throw you out now, in the controllers, the controllers are pretty fast.

    So that’s why Oculus, for example, had great games like beat Sabre, because they were very, very fast, highly responsive.

    And so you, you could pretend to have lightsabers cutting up these little objects flying at you on screen.

    But when you got into using their vision based where it’s using the onboard cameras, it was really terrible.

    Like it was a substantial amount of latency to the point where it was almost unusable.

    So that those issues of latency are really what will make or break a device like Apple vision Pro or the next generation Oculus headset or whatever.

    You’ve got to get the latency, right.

    And the good news is, at least for Apple, they have a good history of getting stuff like that correct.

    In terms of user interface.

    If you’ve ever used Apple’s pencil on the iPad, you’re looking at it fresco that’s $139 for a stylus, like that seems excessive.

    But when you try it like, Okay, this actually behaves like a real pencil on paper.

    And no other stylus feels the way it does on Apple hardware.

    It is seamless.

    When you’re painting.

    And like Adobe fresco, you’re like, Okay, this, this is pretty realistic, the pressure sensors, you know, let you draw.

    So I’m optimistic that Apple will get that, right.

    But it really is going to be the the motion in a space to be able to say like, Okay, I’m going to touch this thing.

    And you reach out and you’re grabbing your touch, and you move these things around in this virtual space.

    They’ve got to get that right, they’ve got to get that right, because that’s what’s going to separate and justify the enormous price tag even once they come out with lower cost models, because I’m sure they will.

    It’s called Apple vision Pro for a reason that will probably be an apple vision.

    And knowing Apple will be an apple vision, err, and Apple Pro Plus, Apple vision Ultra, our apple vision Max unit with Apple will come up with stuff like that.

    But it is the latency that will really define how this thing feels, and whether or not as a success, especially if you’re going to use it in any kind of industrial application or enterprise application where you want somebody to wear one of these things for four or five, six hours a day.

    There are virtual workspaces available in the Oculus, they suck.

    They are terrible.

    The resolution is not great, but the latency of moving around moving screens around and stuff in here is it’s just unusable.

    So this is why this is just now part of my backdrop.

    And not something that I use on a regular basis.

    So those are some initial thoughts about the spatial computing thing.

    Some things for you to think about as you evaluate these these tools.

    Yes, there are plenty of use cases we saw demos.

    During Apple’s announcements we saw all sorts of conversation, but when When it comes time to try these out, measure the latency measure how it feels to move around in that environment.

    And if it feels good, it might be worth the price tag if it feels even the slightest bit janky it’s probably not worth the price tag and it’s gonna give you a headache.

    So, that’s it for today.

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  • Mind Readings: What I’m Paying Attention To In AI

    Mind Readings: What I'm Paying Attention To In AI

    In today’s episode, I discuss what has captured my attention in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly the limitations and decreasing utility of large tech models like GPT-4 and ChatGPT due to increasing restrictions. I share my experience with content censorship and highlight the importance of open-source projects that provide greater ownership and control. I introduce five interesting open-source software tools: llama.cpp, GPT-4 All, meadows music Gen, automatic 1111, and tortoise TTS. These tools offer powerful language engines, local AI applications, music generation, image generation, and voice synthesis. Join me to explore the durability and possibilities of open source in the AI world. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button if you enjoyed this video!

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    In today’s episode, let’s talk about what I’m paying attention to in artificial intelligence these days, what has gotten my attention and where I’m spending my time, the big, the big tech models, like GPT-4, and ChatGPT, has the interface to it, etc.

    These are certainly very capable models, they are very good services they are in GPT-4 is case, sort of a jack of all trades master of none.

    But what we’re seeing is increasing restrictions on what these models are capable of doing.

    And this can be because of feedback that they’ve received.

    This can be because of decisions being made by these companies, but it reduces their utility.

    I’ll give you an example.

    The other day, I was working on a set of slides.

    And I wanted to include an image of a person holding a tape measure, and not being able to correctly measure a window.

    And I use the word limp in the description when I was using it with them the dolly system for image generation, and it kept saying this prompt violates our content policy.

    I’m like, a person holding a lip tape measure is not exactly shall we say less scabious.

    And, and exciting imagery, I It’s a tape measure.

    But for whatever reason, the software decided that that particular keyword was not okay, when I removed it, it was able to generate the image.

    And I’m like, Okay, I mean, that’s, that’s a bit of a stretch.

    And so, between that, and the ownership of of these tools, I’ve really started paying much more attention to open source projects.

    And what I mean by ownership is this, we are in a situation now where, as consumers, we’ve been conditioned to not own things, right.

    If you have Spotify, you don’t own any of that music, the moment you stop paying your bill, you no longer have access to that.

    Whereas say, if you bought a CD back in the 90s, right, from a musician, you bought the CD, and you have this CD, and you had this disc that you held on to and it was yours for as long as you want you owned it.

    And when we look around at the spaces, in things like software and content, yeah, we own very, very little.

    We don’t own much, you if you have a favorite show on Netflix, if Netflix decides Nope, we don’t want to show that anymore.

    Delete, you have no control over it, you don’t own it.

    And this is happening with things.

    For example, like ChatGPT, you don’t own that you have no control over it doesn’t run locally on your computer.

    And as a result, if OpenAI changed his mind about what content is prohibited, and that happens to include content that you’re working with, that becomes a problem.

    Open source software software that is open to the community that is typically free, is it solves that problem, because you download the software, sometimes you compile it yourself.

    You run it on your computer, and it’s there, it’s a local piece of software on your computer, that doesn’t go away, that doesn’t ask for more money, that doesn’t stop working at the whim of a large corporation.

    And it’s it is yours, right? That code is forever.

    When we think about AI tools, you know, you’ve seen the posts on LinkedIn or Twitter with people announcing the latest group of tools.

    And yeah, there’s like 200 new companies being started every day, in the AI space is the list is endless.

    Most of these companies are not going to be around six months or a year, and if you got used to doing business with them, and then they’re just not there anymore.

    That’s problem, right? You You’ve become reliant on something and you have to find a solution.

    If you’re using open source software, it runs on your software or your hardware on your on your laptop, maybe on your servers at work.

    And if the the project comes to an end, that software still keeps running, right? It keeps running until your development environment or your production environment is no longer able to run it back could be years from now.

    So that’s why I’m paying so much attention to open source in AI because a it’s where all the innovation is and be your own it.

    It’s yours.

    It’s on your laptop, it’s on your server, it’s on your desktop, and you can do with it what you want.

    Typically, there’s fewer rules or restrictions.

    And there’s no waitlists for new features.

    You just run the software and, you know, granted you have to have in some cases a pretty beefy computer to do it, but it’s yours.

    So the top five pieces of software that I’m looking at lately once called llama dot cpp, this is a, I would call it the probably the most powerful basic large language engine that can use almost any of the major open source large language models.

    This is a command line tool.

    So it is definitely not user friendly.

    But it’s extremely powerful, it’s very fast and very efficient.

    The tool that I would recommend everyone take a look at is one called GPT-4.

    All so if you go to GPT-4, all ChatGPT, that number for aol.io, you can download a desktop application, and then choose which models you want to use.

    This is very low tech, right there’s there’s no technical skill required to install the application.

    And that functions like what you’re used to with things like ChatGPT, but it’s running on your computer.

    Now, depending on the speed of your computer in the age of stuff, it may not run real fast, but it does run.

    And you can use sensitive information with it right when you use ChatGPT.

    If you were to paste in, you know, some credit card records or something and ask it to do pattern detection.

    You’re giving sensitive information to a third party, which is a big no no in things like finance and health and law.

    When you’re running a piece of software like GPT-4, all locally on your computer, you don’t even need the internet for that, right? No data is leaving your computer, no data is going to a third party, you were just using it locally.

    So that is a project that I recommend everyone take a look at it sooner or later.

    A couple other projects that again, these are more required technical skills, meadows music Gen is fascinating.

    This is open source music generation.

    And it’s pretty good.

    It’s pretty good.

    Now it’s an initial model.

    And there definitely is some limitations with it.

    But it gives you a sense of okay, this is where this is going this is pretty cool that it can with a sufficient enough prompt to generate a decent sounding piece of music.

    And of course, being AI generated, you don’t have to worry about things like copyrights, because nothing a machine generated can be copyrighted.

    And so you don’t have to worry about taking, dealing with royalties and all that stuff.

    Another project I think is interesting is automatic, automatic.

    1111 is the name of it now, but this is a web interface to Stable Diffusion, the image generation model again, this is something that either runs in, you can run it in a cloud environment like Google colab.

    Or if you’ve got a beefy enough laptop, you can run it right on your machine and generate images.

    So if you’ve seen Stable Diffusion imagery, the AI generated art, you can run this locally.

    And there are some fine tunes of the Stable Diffusion library that you can use to generate specific kinds of styles.

    You can also add in additional tools that will clean up the inevitable doesn’t quite get the faces right on people.

    But it’s a pretty cool tool.

    And the fifth one that I’ve been paying a lot of attention to is tortoise TTS.

    So tortoise is a relatively slow voice generator.

    So it can synthesize voices, which again is very useful if you want natural sounding computers to be able to speak now there are paid services like 11 labs that offer basically this technology, but in a in a SaaS base environment.

    But again, you don’t own that.

    And they have a lot of understandably, a lot of restrictions on what you can and can’t do with it.

    If you want to train tortoise on your own voice and have you know, reading out, I don’t know, some fanfiction, you wrote.

    And that would violate, you know, say 11 Labs content policy, but it’s your stuff and you want to have your voice doing it.

    These tools will let you do it.

    So that’s what’s captured my attention lately in the AI world.

    Yes, there are a lot of cool companies a lot of cool things happening.

    But I’m paying a lot of attention to open source because of its durability.

    If I’m going to offer a service or strategic advice to a client, I want to know that that recommendation is going to endure longer than six months, right? Especially for the clients gonna be building something on that architecture.

    I want to make sure that it has as a solid foundation and open source software is one of those foundations.

    So that’s the show for now.

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  • Mind Readings: AI, Morals, and Safe Usage

    Mind Readings: AI, Morals, and Safe Usage

    In today’s episode, I delve into the intriguing topic of artificial intelligence and morality. Can AI be moral? The answer is a resounding no. While we agree on certain utilitarian aspects of ethical behavior, defining what is moral remains a challenge. Issues arise when deciding whose morals should guide machines, especially considering the cultural variations across the world. Teaching a machine with universal reach to localize for different cultural norms is nearly impossible. AI is akin to a powerful tool, like a chainsaw or firearm, which lacks inherent morals. However, there are measures we can take to ensure AI models are fine-tuned and avoid using unreliable data. The future discussions should focus on regulating the data that goes into AI models rather than the models themselves. Watch the video to explore this complex quandary further. Remember to hit that subscribe button if you found this video intriguing.

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    In today’s episode, let’s talk about artificial intelligence and morality.

    Can AI be moral? The short answer is no.

    The long answer is no, because we can’t agree on what moral is, we can agree on some utilitarian aspects of morality of ethical behavior, we can agree that generally speaking, a machine should probably not do harm.

    We can generally agree that machines probably should not say, outrageously wrong things like the Earth is flat or gasoline is safe to drink.

    But beyond that, you start running into issues of whose morals you want to use to guide the machines.

    And this is where this is where a lot of models will need fine tuning, and perhaps different versions to match the different cultures that they operate in, you know, think about a very simple product like alcohol like wine, right? There are some places in some cultures where it is not permitted, is outright not permitted.

    There are other places where that’s something people indulge in a whole lot.

    Think about something like marijuana, there are places where it’s legal places where it’s not legal.

    How do you teach a machine that supposedly has universal reach? To localize for each of these things? The answer is you really can’t.

    Not well, you can absolutely get them again, to avoid causing basic issues and basic problems.

    But above me on that, you really can’t.

    So think about AI kinda like, how like a chainsaw, right? A chainsaw has no morals.

    It’s a tool, that tool.

    And the results we get is contingent on the user.

    You can.

    And chainsaw manufacturers do include lots of safety instructions and some basic safeguards, right? Like, there’s a hand guard so that your your hand doesn’t get hit by shrapnel as you’re sawing through something, there’s a circuit breaker so that the motor doesn’t overload if you’re using an electric chainsaw.

    But beyond that, there’s not much else you can do to make something that is inherently very powerful and sometimes very dangerous, safer, right? It’s like a firearm, take your average firearm.

    A firearm is designed to shoot things right there’s there aren’t a whole lot of applications for it, that don’t involve it shooting something.

    So you can have safeties, you can have indicators in the barrel, it’ll show you around his chamber, you can regulate to some degree the kinds of ammunition that you can use.

    But at the end of the day, it’s a it’s a thing that’s designed to shoot things, there’s really no way to make that safer.

    With AI, particularly generative AI, there are things you can do to tune the models, there are things you can do to avoid putting garbage data in in the first place.

    And that is where a lot of discussion is going to be happening in the very near future about whose data is in these things, whether the manufacturer of these models had permission to use that data, and whether or not people can retrieve their data from it or remove it.

    So there is definitely moral and ethical things you can do on the creation of the models themselves, but not on the use of them once they’re deployed.

    So the short answer to this very challenging quandary is twofold.

    One, if you want an AI model, to have a specific point of view, you will have to train it, or fine tune it to have that point of view, the stock off the shelf bottles probably will not have those.

    And if you want it to have embrace a specific viewpoint in the world, you’re gonna have to fine tune it and then that’s what you use rather than something that’s off the shelf for the general public would be using and to we, we should be asking for regulation not of the models themselves, but of what goes in them.

    To say like, yeah, if you are, if a model is considered a derivative work of copyrighted work that’s going to change the game for a lot of generative AI is going to dramatically change what the machines are capable of.

    And it will make permitted data collection a lot more valuable.

    individual authors could give licenses to machine learning companies to say yes, you may use my works in exchange for this fee as an example, so that That’s where we’re kind of are with AI and morals these days, there isn’t going to be a safe, moral, ethical AI, there isn’t because that’s just not how these tools work.

    There actually can be safer tools that have obviously morally incorrect things removed again, like recommending someone go drink gasoline.

    But after that a certain point, it’s going to be up to the individual to take responsibility for what they want the machines to do.

    Rather than demanding it manufacturers create custom models for every single person in the world or even just every single group of the well you’d be still be doing a lot of fussing that is impractical, and unaffordable, unless there’s very deep pocketed folks funding those things.

    So that’s the show for today.

    Thanks for tuning in.

    We’ll talk to you soon.

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  • Mind Readings: Voice Cloning AI

    Mind Readings: Voice Cloning AI

    In today’s episode, I explore the fascinating world of voice cloning and the advancements this technology has made. By using AI-based systems like tortoise TTS and 11 Labs, we can create highly realistic synthetic voices that closely resemble human speech. I conduct a demonstration comparing AI-generated content with my own narration to see how well the machine captures my voice. We discuss the potential applications of voice cloning, including entertainment, healthcare, and marketing, while also acknowledging the ethical considerations and challenges it presents. The technology has come a long way, and although it still lacks some human nuances, it has promising potential. Tune in to learn more about this transformative technology. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button if you find this topic intriguing.

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    In today’s episode, let’s talk about voice cloning and just how good the technology has gotten.

    This is a technology.

    It’s an AI based technology, which you use to you give some voice samples, like from this recording, and you load it into a system.

    And there’s a couple of different packages out there, like tortoise TTS, which is open source, and 11 Labs, which is a commercial application.

    And what comes out is pretty on the nose, I mean, you can tell there’s, you can tell there’s definitely variations that make it sound not exactly human.

    But for casual listening, listening, it’s close enough.

    So I’m going to do two things in this in this demo, if you will.

    First I have a piece of text written by ChatGPT.

    Right, so we’re going to start off with some AI generated content.

    I’m going to read it aloud as me.

    And then we’re going to put it through 11 labs and have 11 Labs read it out as well.

    And we’re going to compare the two to see how they sound to see whether the machine reading using my voice captures the way that I actually would do this.

    So you’re going to hear the same passage a couple of times, and so it’s not too long.

    It’s only like 3500 characters like 500 words.

    So here we go.

    In our continually evolving digital landscape, the role of technology continues to extend and deepen its roots in our everyday lives.

    At the forefront of these emerging technology.

    technological trends are AI based and voice cloning applications such as tortoise TTS and 11 Labs.

    By requiring just a few minutes of clear audio from the subject.

    These powerful tools are transforming the face various industries, a little on the dry side.

    But as with all tools, the potential for misuse is there as well as its beneficial applications.

    This blog post aims to shed light on the various uses both beneficial and problematic of voice cloning technologies.

    Voice cloning technologies premises straightforward yet revolutionary.

    Through the input of just a few minutes of clear audio from an individual technologies like tortoise, TTS and 11 labs can create highly realistic synthetic replication of their unique voice.

    This synthesized voice can then be used for range of purposes across various domains from entertainment to health care, and marketing.

    The first positive application of voice cloning is evident in the entertainment industry, particularly in video games, game developers are increasingly employing voice cloning technologies to create a more realistic voice for synthetic characters.

    This development allows for a more immersive and engaging experience for gamers around the globe pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in virtual narratives.

    In the healthcare sector, voice cloning COVID presents promising applications for individuals with degenerative diseases by preserving the voice of someone before their vocal capabilities diminish.

    Text to speech applications can continue to continue to speak for them as they did in the past.

    This capability not only helps individuals maintain their identity but also provides a sense of normalcy and control in difficult times.

    Moreover, voice clinics technology plays an instrumental role in grief management under the supervision of a qualified therapist.

    Individuals mourning the loss of a loved one can engage with the cloned voice facilitating the grieving process in a controlled and supportive environment.

    In the realm of marketing, voice cloning has emerged as a game changer.

    Marketers can use this technology to create thought leadership content from busy executives, and subject matter experts who simply lack the time for podcasting are interviews.

    This allows organizations to maintain their thought leadership positioning without placing unnecessary stress on the key personnel schedules.

    As with all technologies, voice, cloning also comes with its own set of challenges and ethical considerations.

    A prime example is the potential for misuse and producing synthetic ransom notes or other deceptive practices.

    This underscores the importance of stringent regulation and ethical guidelines around the use of such transformative technology.

    The AI of the advent of AI based voice cloning technologies like tortoise TTS and 11 Labs presents a wealth of opportunities coupled with a handful of challenges more than a handful.

    As we continue to embrace these technologies, it’s essential to focus on maximizing their potential benefits, while remaining vigilant to the potential misuse.

    Whether it’s creating more immersive video games, assisting individuals with degenerative diseases, aiding grief management or streamlining content creation and marketing, voice cloning technology is undoubtedly reshaping the way we interact with the world around us.

    As we tread this new ground, it’s critical that we approached ethically and responsibly to fully harness its potential.

    Now, you can tell this as a human performance forever in a variety of ways.

    One, the screw ups, right to the slight asides, and three, the fact that I’m borderline smirking in parts because the text is so robotic, right? This is not how I personally write if you’ve watched any of my newsletters, you know that my writing style is different this so narrating this is a bit challenging, but you know, it’s not incorrect like what the machine is saying is not incorrect.

    So it’s it’s got that part doubt anyway, let’s do this.

    Next we’re gonna go ahead and going to fire up, I’m gonna put my headphones on, I’m gonna listen in with you as we listen to the machine, pretend to be me.

    In our continually evolving digital landscape, the role of technology continues to extend and deepen its roots in our everyday lives at the forefront of these emerging technological trends, our AI based voice cloning applications, such as tortoise TTS and 11 Labs.

    By requiring just a few minutes of clear audio from the subject, these powerful tools are transforming the face of various industries.

    But as with all tools, the potential for misuse is there as well as its beneficial applications.

    This blog post aims to shed light on the various uses both beneficial and problematic of voice cloning technologies.

    Voice cloning technologies premise is straightforward yet revolutionary.

    Through the input of just a few minutes of clear audio from an individual technologies like tortoise, TTS and 11 labs can create a highly realistic synthetic replication of their unique voice.

    This synthesized voice can then be used for a range of purposes across various domains from entertainment to health and marketing.

    The first positive application of voice cloning is evident in the entertainment industry, particularly in video games.

    Game developers are increasingly employing voice cloning technologies to create more realistic voices for synthetic characters.

    This development allows for a more immersive and engaging experience for gamers around the globe, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in virtual narratives.

    In the healthcare sector.

    Voice cloning presents promising applications for individuals with degenerative diseases by preserving the voice of someone before their vocal capabilities diminish.

    Text to speech applications can continue to speak for them as they did in the past.

    This capability not only helps individuals maintain their identity, but also provides a sense of normalcy and control in difficult times.

    Moreover, voice cloning technology plays an instrumental role in grief management.

    Under the supervision of a qualified therapist, individuals mourning the loss of a loved one can engage with a cloned voice, facilitating the grieving process in a controlled and supportive environment.

    In the realm of marketing, voice cloning has emerged as a game changer.

    Marketers can use this technology to create thought leadership content from busy executives and subject matter experts who simply lack the time for podcasting or interviews.

    This allows organizations to maintain their thought leadership positioning without placing unnecessary stress on their key personnel schedules.

    As with all technologies, voice, cloning also comes with its own set of challenges and ethical considerations.

    A prime example is the potential for misuse and producing synthetic ransom notes or other deceptive practices.

    This underscores the importance of stringent regulation and ethical guidelines around the use of such transformative technology.

    The advent of AI based voice cloning technologies like tortoise TTS and 11 Labs presents a wealth of opportunities coupled with a handful of challenges.

    As we continue to embrace these technologies, it’s essential to focus on maximizing their potential benefits, while remaining vigilant to their potential misuse.

    Whether it’s creating more immersive video games, assisting individuals with degenerative diseases, aiding grief management or streamlining content creation and marketing, voice cloning technology is undoubtedly reshaping the way we interact with the world around us.

    As we tread this new ground, it’s critical that we approach it ethically and responsibly to fully harness its potential.

    Okay, so a couple things, one, you can tell it’s mechanical, right.

    And I believe this is a new feature added in by I used 11 labs.

    So this because the previous samples were so good, that they were being misused.

    Second, you can tell that it’s definitely machine generated because of the pacing.

    The pacing is very

    rhythmic, boom, boom, boom, every word spoken, you know, in kind of a, it’s not flat, but it is definitely not human.

    That said, if you were listening casually, if you’re listening to a podcast, maybe while you’re driving around or something, this would be okay.

    Right, this would not be horrible to listen to, it’s certainly way better than the, you know, the robot voices that we’ve had for text to speech in years past, this is a pretty good improvement.

    And because it’s using my voice if I wanted to, to, to leverage this for, you know, maybe recording a video where I just can’t be there, you could see this, there’s an application for that.

    But Asscher is interesting.

    It’s interesting.

    The technology, this is based on his open source technology can run on a gaming laptop.

    So this is not something that requires, you know, massive, massive amounts of compute power to do if you want to do it yourself with the open source technology for the paid services.

    Those are obviously things you can subscribe to and end users.

    Well.

    The points that it made were points that I initially gave it in the prompt when ChatGPT wrote it for me, I said you know it’s it is definitely useful.

    Apple has its pros.

    Little Voice, which will be coming up for the iPhone, which will allow someone again, who wants to preserve their voice to be able to use it.

    And I do think it’s possible to be used for like grief management, I would not have said it’s a key instrumental role, I would have said no, it’s possible, because it could also make things worse, hence, the use of a qualified therapist.

    So these are the different this is how it’s this sounds right.

    This is the way that this technology works.

    It is interesting, it is worth investigating if you need something like this for your marketing, and it’s worth playing around with him getting to know what’s possible with it.

    Anyway, that’s the show for today.

    Thanks for tuning in.

    Talk to you next time.

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  • Mind Readings: The Greatest Trick Politics Played

    Mind Readings: The Greatest Trick Politics Played

    In today’s episode, I discuss how politics has played a trick on us by turning our political positions into our identities. This has led to a highly polarized society where people are less likely to listen to or even consider opposing viewpoints. I argue that the antidote to this problem is self-awareness and critical thinking. We need to be able to step back and ask ourselves whether our beliefs are truly our own, or whether they have been influenced by political marketing and propaganda. Only then can we start to break down the barriers of polarization and have productive conversations about the issues that matter to us.

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    Now let’s talk about this and the greatest trick that politics has played, and possibly the most damaging thing that’s done.

    Politics, politicians, movements, and things like that have taken a very solid set of pages from marketing, about how to ensure loyalty to their points of views.

    And this is not limited to one culture, or one country or one political perspective, this is everywhere.

    And this is not new.

    But it has gotten so much more prevalent, that we are in an age now of hyper partisanship, where everything is a political issue, things that shouldn’t be like, you know, the candy drawings on m&ms, people having intense political and cultural debates about these things.

    I think it’s it’s the bad candy, if you want to have a debate, talking about the nutrition information on that.

    Why is this happening? How is this happening? What has happened to create such an atmosphere of polarization, that nobody can agree on anything, nobody can get anything done.

    And it’s causing breaks in families and relationships in neighborhoods and cultures.

    Here’s the trick.

    Its identity.

    Politicians, and political marketing.

    Experts and organizations figured out very quickly that if you convert your political positions, your ideology, into identity, it is very, very hard to dislodge that is very hard for someone else to persuade you otherwise, because you incorporate a concept and turn it into your identity.

    Now, let’s talk about identity.

    Briefly, what is identity? It’s who you are.

    It’s who you identify as right.

    I am male, I am old.

    I am Korean.

    My heritage is Korean.

    I am American.

    Those are sort of identifiable characteristics about me.

    And because those are so personal to me, there are things that someone could say or do that would be hurtful to me.

    Probably hurtful to you.

    And as a result, anyone talking about those things would would get rejected by someone came up to me and said, Hey, you Gook, right? That’s a racial slur specific to Koreans.

    And that would probably disregard what else that person had to say unless it was, you know, an unknown context.

    That is an attack on identity.

    If I were to call you a certain name, that was that is insulting to your heritage, or your sexual orientation or to your, your, your gender identity, you would probably get really upset.

    Back when I was a kid.

    Calling someone gay was a slur, right? This is like 40 years ago.

    Now.

    That was a slur.

    Now.

    It’s a very common word because the LGBT community has reclaimed that.

    There are people for example, in the African American community, the black community, they will use certain language with each other, they’ve reclaimed, that doesn’t have the bite that it does, but anyone else using it? Probably not.

    Okay, that’s all identity.

    What politicians figured out is that they can bind their causes their points of view to your identity, you will reject everything that does not go with that.

    You will reject different points of view, you will reject people you will reject messaging, you will reject everything that is contrary to their point of view, because you’ve put it in as part of your identity, if you will.

    Now, say I’m a liberal, I’m a conservative, I’m a Tory, I’m a wig.

    I’m a Democrat, I’m a Republican, whatever the label is.

    If you bind that into your identity now, the politicians figured out Ah, we can get you to reject everything else.

    We can get you we can ensure your loyalty.

    We can take your money because they’ll say, oh, so and so politicians, they’re saying this about you.

    They’re saying this about you, they’re coming for you give us money.

    And that works.

    So well.

    Again, this is not limited to one party or one nation.

    This is everywhere because political marketing has gotten very sophisticated.

    but more harmfully? That binary classification of us versus them does not leave a middle ground.

    Right? The reality is reality probably is, there’s people who are for an issue.

    There’s people who are against an issue has a whole bunch of people in the middle who don’t care.

    Right? This was the problem that political markers are trying to solve.

    There’s like, 10% of people really care.

    There’s 10 people who represent people who really oppose it and 80% people that don’t care.

    But the moment they can split your identity and say, Okay, well, the people who are on this side believe this, and the people on this side believe that now you’re like, Okay, well, if my identity is, as a Democrat, well, I guess I have to go on to that side.

    My identity is as a Republican, I guess I’m gonna go on this side.

    And suddenly, there is no middle ground anymore, because they’ve used identity, to lump everything together, and pull away the middle.

    Right? It consolidates power.

    This is the trick.

    This is what the politicians have done.

    And it’s very difficult to overcome, because changing someone’s identity is very difficult.

    Right? Imagine trying to be trying to say, oh, you know, I’m gonna try and stop being Korean.

    I’m gonna try and stop being male, to try and stop being older.

    I’m gonna try and stop being heterosexual, really hard to do that.

    Right? You can believe it, people can believe anything, you know, the mind is, is very flexible.

    So a very flexible system, but really hard.

    Can you imagine someone saying to you, well, well, try not being Jewish anymore, or try not being Christian anymore, or trying not being Muslim anymore, like, take a hike, or take a long walk off a short Pier.

    And the politicians to figure this out, try not being liberal anymore, try not being conservative anymore, trying not be in support of Palestine, or in support of Israel.

    It’s so much a part of identity now that they know they’ve got you.

    They know they have programmed you to knee jerk, reject anything that is not part of your identity, and the identity that they have asked you to construct for yourself that incorporates them.

    So what’s the antidote? The antidote is awareness, self awareness, when you see something, ask yourself, Is that really what I believe? Or is that what somebody told me to believe? Is that really a part of my identity as a person? Or is that part of a label that comes bundled with the identity that I’ve decided to adopt? Right? Where, you know, say you’re Republican, but maybe you really, really don’t give a crap about transgender people? It’s like it does, it doesn’t affect you, you don’t care about it’s not your thing.

    If you see somebody talking about that, say, Well, do I actually care about that? Or is that something that someone else is telling me to care about? Because it benefits them? Right? There will be things that you absolutely do care about, right? If you’re a Republican, you probably care very much about the your right to keep and bear arms.

    And and if that is part of your identity by choice, then that is and someone trying to take that away from you.

    Yeah, where you rightfully should, like, that’s not okay.

    But it is building that awareness of when we see something, we feel something when we we feel something that feels like an attack on us.

    The antidote is to stop and go, is that really an attack on who I am as a person? Or is that an attack on the identity that a, a politician would like me to believe? So that it favors them? every culture, every country, every society in the world is going through this now things like these lovely devices, right? They amplify this, they reinforce that sense of identity that is really not us.

    And if we’re aware enough, and clever enough, and smart enough, and confident enough, and ourselves, we can pull apart what we’ve been told to believe versus who we actually are.

    It’s a worthwhile exercise because it means you’re a lot happier because suddenly things that everyone else is saying they’d be upset about.

    You’re like, what’s wrong with you? You can be a lot happier.

    Because you recognize when someone is trying to play you, versus you making decisions for yourself that benefit you first and not.

    Some want to be puppet master.

    sitting behind a desk somewhere.

    That’s the show for today.

    Thanks for tuning in.

    We’ll talk to you soon.

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  • Mind Readings: Build DEI into AI From The Start

    Mind Readings: Build DEI into AI From The Start

    In today’s episode, I delve into the intricacies of integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives into Artificial Intelligence (AI) models. It’s a complex and intriguing discussion, and I shed light on some key questions: Should we train our models from scratch or leave them ‘raw’? What does it mean to incorporate DEI principles from the start of model training? Using practical examples from the advertising realm, I illustrate the effects of unchecked biases in AI and how these can impact the end user. It’s all about making conscious choices when it comes to our training datasets and being proactive in eliminating potential biases. But more than just creating an equitable digital environment, I also delve into the practical side of DEI in AI – mitigating risk and avoiding legal pitfalls. So, if you’re curious about how to harmonize DEI and AI, or you simply want to understand more about ethical AI practices, this is one discussion you won’t want to miss.

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    In today’s episode, let’s talk about the inclusion of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

    And AI.

    I was having a conversation recently with a software developer talking about the various different models and one of the questions came up was, should we even be doing any kind of Di? Or should the model be trained? Essentially, as is? And let the deployment of the model handle any of those inputs and outputs? The answer is complicated.

    The answer is complicated.

    Because there is validity to the position of creating a model that has no has no editing to it is the raw model, the raw ingredients process, which can include a lot of crap, depending on how you train it.

    Or doing some some weighting and some training and some parameter optimization to incorporate things like diversity, equity and inclusion into the model from the very beginning.

    Here’s the differentiating point.

    If you are applying strong dei principles to the data that is being used to train a model, then you don’t have to work as hard to try and balance the models output itself.

    For example, let’s say you’re making a an advertising database of a piece of ad tech, and you take in a huge quantity of information from say, Instagram, that’s gonna have a whole bunch of biases in it, right? If you just connect the pipes and let the data flow, you’re going to have a huge number of biases that data and so you’re going to have to spend a lot of time in that model, trying to balance things out to make sure that audiences are shown the right ads that are appropriate, that are balanced, that are fair, that are equitable.

    And it’s gonna be a lot of work to do that, to tune that model to have those dei principles built into them.

    Or you take the training dataset that you start with.

    And you say, Okay, well, let’s go through this and clean out all the crap.

    So that it is a curated dataset is is highly curated, is highly tuned, we know the data set that the model will build from is fair, is equitable, is diverse is inclusive.

    If you do that, then you have to do a lot less work in the model afterwards.

    Because you know, what went in, was clean.

    It’s, it’s like every form of software development garbage in, garbage out, right? If you put a lot of pollution into the model, then the model is going to spit out a lot of undesirable stuff.

    That’s one of the reasons why you see all these different, like large language models like Bard and Bing and stuff, saying, hey, this thing may generate inappropriate content.

    Well, yeah, cuz you’ve scraped a whole bunch of inappropriate content to begin with.

    And so you now have to provide warning statements on this thing, because you didn’t clean it in advance.

    You didn’t do any work on the front end.

    So the back end is going to be misbehave.

    Regardless of whether you’re doing it in the model, or in the training data set, I would strongly urge you to lean towards the training data set side, you do have to have dei principles in place.

    At the beginning of the project, before you do anything, you have to say, here’s what we consider diverse.

    Here’s what we consider equitable.

    Here’s what we consider inclusive and whatever the situation is, for example, in advertising, if you’re building an ad tech product, should assuming all of the things being equal, should say a black man and a Hispanic woman, same income level, same audience demographic generally, should they receive the same ad? Should they receive an ad that is that has the same maybe discounts in it.

    If you have a dei mindset, the answer would be yes.

    And if they’re, if they have equal incomes and equal propensity to buy you, they should absolutely see the same ad.

    But if you’re using a large language model, for example, OpenAI eyes, which clearly states on their website in their disclosures, that there’s negative sentiment in the model attached to African American women’s names.

    If you have Linda and Leticia and you’re using that model.

    And you you don’t know that there’s this problem in it.

    Leticia is going to get a worse offer.

    Even though those two buyers identical there Leticia is going to get the worst offer because of the language model itself.

    So the warning the importance here is to have your dei principles installed in your company in your values in your projects from the start, the person or people who are on your dei committee.

    They should have a seat at the table for any AI project whatsoever.

    And they should be the ones that, among others, including the developers, including the engineers, including the project managers, they should also have a stop button to say, hey, we need to take a pause right now and reevaluate because the model is doing something that is not appropriate.

    Right? The model is doing something and we need to hit the pause button, the stop button, stop the assembly line.

    Let’s figure this out.

    And then you apply these dei principles to every aspect of AI construction, the training data, the algorithm choice, right? What are what protected classes are in place and how they are balanced? And what constitutes an equitable outcome? Is it equality of opportunity? Is it equality of result, it depends based on the situation, your values, maybe the values of your culture, but you’ve got to have it written down and planned in advance, if you don’t, bad things are going to happen.

    And by bad things, I mean, things that will get you sued, right.

    dei isn’t only about making sure everyone gets a fair shake.

    That’s important.

    That’s important and should be fairly obvious.

    But it’s also about liability protection, it’s all about risk mitigation.

    It’s about not getting your butt sued.

    So there’s sort of this carrot and stick with the AI and the carrot is you you make a more equitable, fair, just world with the software that you’re creating, or you’re having AI create, and the stick is don’t get sued.

    So build dei into every API project from the start.

    And if you have to choose where to spend time, invest time in the training data that goes into the model.

    Now if you don’t have a choice, if you’re starting with a base model, maybe from like an open AI or from a llama or mosaic ml, then you’re gonna have to do a lot more fine tuning on that model.

    To ensure equitable outcomes, there’s gonna be a lot of work on the back end, because you didn’t have control of the base model, it’d be like getting a pizza that has a whole bunch of toppings you didn’t ask for you got it, it’s going to take your time to pull off all the toppings right and then put new ones on and maybe add some more cheese to kind of cover up the the messy meat of it.

    But if you’ve got people who can’t have shellfish, and someone put shellfish in that pizza, like okay, you’re gonna be spending a lot of time picking the little shrimp.

    But the same principle applies when it comes to dei and AI.

    If you’ve got a pre baked model, you’re gonna spend a lot of time pulling stuff out of there.

    That’s the show for today.

    Thanks for tuning in.

    I’ll talk to you soon.

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  • Mind Readings: The Real Danger to the News Industry Isn’t AI

    Mind Readings: The Real Danger to the News Industry Isn't AI

    In today’s episode, I delve into the looming crisis for the news industry: will AI be the final nail in the coffin? It’s not AI generated content that’s threatening the industry, rather, the danger lies in the fluff-filled articles that bury the actual news beneath paragraphs of filler. AI, especially models like GPT-4, can distill these lengthy articles, extracting the crux while leaving behind the fluff. This potential evolution might significantly impact advertising revenues, given that AI won’t click on ads, lowering their effectiveness. But, is it all doom and gloom? Maybe not, if we adapt. I discuss how platforms like Substack are creating new revenue models for content creators, where direct communication and interaction with the audience is prioritized. Tune in to understand how the future of content creation and publishing might need to evolve, and why it’s vital for you to create valuable content that holds the reader’s interest, rather than fillers. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button if you enjoy these insights!

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    In today’s episode, let’s talk about the news.

    And the danger to the news industry that AI might or might not.

    Cause a lot of people are talking about how the news industry is on death’s door.

    And AI is going to be the final nail in the coffin to put newspapers and other publications out of business.

    Maybe, but probably not.

    What’s going to kill the news industry is the garbage that they publish.

    I was recently looking for click looking for some some news about one of the the shows that I follow.

    I don’t have time to watch television, but I read the summaries.

    And I got to this one site that has interesting headline, and just scrolling, scrolling, scrolling, okay, when we get to the actual news that, you know, the headline said one thing, and then there’s like 14 paragraphs of filler, just total fluff, saying nothing.

    And then finally, at the very bottom, the last paragraph is the actual news piece.

    That’s a miserable experience.

    Now, why would a news website do that? Well, because to scroll past all 14 paragraphs, if you do that, in a normal web browser, one that does not have an ad blocker.

    There’s like an ad, every paragraph, so they’re just showing ad after ad after ad, as you’re trying to scroll through the thing, you know, just being boggled by the lack of content.

    I would have loved to say that that was all AI generated.

    But it wasn’t it was just badly written human content, actually did a test with one of the many AI detection tools.

    And they all universally agreed.

    The site’s not the you know, the content here is not AI written it’s it doesn’t have the telltale statistical indicators that hey, I generated content, which by the way, they do exist.

    It’s a technique called perplexity and we’ll talk about that another time.

    But holy crap, that article was so long and so drawn out for so little benefit that it was just garbage.

    It was all filler, no meat.

    Now, when I fed that article to OpenAI to GPT-4, I said, summarize this, and just give me the main points, and it did it it went straight to the main point, cut out a lot of the filler.

    And that was a huge time saver, that technique is a huge time saver for like, Oh, my goodness, just piles of dreck.

    machines like that, and large language models and AI have the ability to summarize, to distill to extract to remove information from whatever soup It’s in and boil it down to just the relevant parts.

    In fact, in terms of what large language models are like, like a ChatGPT, based model GPT-4 were llama or any of these other ones.

    They’re really good at that they’re really good at summarization and extraction, they’re actually better at that than they aren’t generation, that they’re better at extracting and summarizing than they are at writing net new content.

    And that’s one of the great uses of these tools.

    It is fairly trivial to envision software that you would have as an app on your phone, whatever that goes and reads all these poorly written news sites and just says here’s the two bullet points from this article that are that are relevant.

    And the rest, you know, we’ve we’ve ignored because it’s all filler, it’s all fluff.

    That’s what’s going to kill the news industry.

    That’s what’s going to kill a lot of journalism, it is not machines, putting writers out of work.

    It is machines, distilling down the garbage that’s being written, and in the process, not driving ad revenue, right, because a machine that goes and parses that page, it’s not a human, right, it’s not, it is running a browser.

    So the publisher might get some views on those pages if it renders it in a contained environment.

    But they’re not going to get clicks on it ever, the ad performance is going to drop to zero because a machine is not going to click on those ads and machine is instead just going to take the text from the page, boil it down to the one bullet point that is actually the news.

    And there we have it.

    So that’s a pretty bleak picture.

    If you’re a publisher, right? Machines are going to be reading your content and distilling down just the bits that people want and leaving the rest behind and you’re not going to get any clicks.

    So you may get ad revenue, but you will not be the advertisers will be like it’s this is not paying off.

    We’re advertising we’re spending money.

    And we’re getting no results.

    We’re getting no traffic on these ads.

    So what’s the solution? Well, there’s two solutions one, create less crap.

    And to the model for how publications do business has got to change and and what it might look like is what is being very successfully done now on places like substack, where you have individual writers creating their own feeds of things.

    And then having sponsors, right? Have a, I can’t tell you the number of newsletters I read now that have a sponsor, and yeah, you read it.

    And ad blockers don’t cut it out.

    Because it’s an email.

    It’s an email, and you just scroll past the ad, if you’re not if you don’t care.

    But if you do care, the ads right there, and you can read through it, and enjoy it.

    I look at my friend and handle these newsletters.

    She’s got ads in it for some of her stuff.

    I look at something like, what’s that guy wrote in his AI rundown newsletter, I can’t remember his last name.

    He’s got promotional stuff in his newsletter, all these different newsletters that people are subscribing to now, that trend is taken off because A, it allows writers to talk directly to their audience without the constraints imposed by a publisher, and B, they can make money directly from the audience by charging for subscriptions, in some cases, by running sponsors, things like that.

    That’s the model for publishing that seems to be working right now.

    People who are good content creators are creating their own publications, their own platforms.

    And in doing so they are able to derive revenue from it.

    Think about this for your own business.

    How much of your stuff is so good that summarizing it with AI wouldn’t really save anyone, anytime, because there’s a lot to dig into, there’s a lot to understand, or is your content so thin that large language model could simply take it and extract the one bullet point of actual content, you have discard the rest.

    And there’s no need for a machine, there’s no need for human to read your content because a machine can do it better and faster, and get to the tiny crumbs of useful information that are in there.

    As marketers, we have to get better at creating valuable content.

    As publishers, we absolutely need to create better content just to keep people’s attention just to hold on to the audience that we have.

    So if you’re on the publishing side, and you’re publishing stuff that you know is not delivering and it frustrates people, now’s the time to reevaluate that, because your revenue model probably have to change really soon as machines become more and more adept at reading the web, extracting content from the web and presenting distilled versions of it to users.

    That’s it for this show.

    Thanks for tuning in.

    We’ll talk to you next time.

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  • Mind Readings: AI Prompts Aren’t 100% Portable

    Mind Readings: AI Prompts Aren't 100% Portable

    In today’s episode, I delve into the fascinating world of generative AI systems like ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bing, Bard, and more. Remember, AI models aren’t all created equal, each has unique quirks and requirements when it comes to crafting prompts. Just like different operating systems require different apps, so do AI models. And if you want to get the best results from them, you need to understand this. I’ll also share some essential tips on how to build your prompt libraries based on the specific system, and where to find the most reliable information to do so. You might also want to join the bustling AI communities on Discord, where you can trade prompts and learn from each other. Tune in to understand why “prompts aren’t 100% portable”, how you can optimize for each AI model, and why this knowledge is vital for anyone dabbling in AI. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button if you find this episode valuable.

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    In today’s episode, a brief reminder that prompts are not portable.

    This is, of course, in reference to generative AI systems like ChatGPT, GPT-4, all Bing, and Bard as well as image systems like Stable Diffusion, dolly to mid journey, etc.

    All of these systems use AI models and remember that a model in an AI parlance is really just a piece of software.

    It’s software that was made by a machine made for machines.

    The interfaces like ChatGPT, are the ways that we as humans talk to these models.

    But these models themselves are essentially their own self contained pieces of software.

    They’re all built differently.

    They’re all trained differently, they’re all constructed differently.

    And so what works on one system will not necessarily work on another system, you may get good results, but not great or optimum results.

    For example, the model behind ChatGPT, the GPT-3, point five and the GPT 4.0 models.

    These work best when you have a very structured prompt, that is role statement, background action.

    And you can download the there’s a PDF that explains all this go to trust insights.ai/prompt sheet, nothing to fill out no forms, just grab the PDF.

    That structure works really, really well, because aligns with the way that OpenAI has said, the engine behind it works.

    That same structure, if you move it to like llama, doesn’t work as well, if you look in the llama instructions for, for developers, they tell you, it’s a user, and then to statement.

    So there’s no it’s not for parts that are easily interpreted.

    And the use of sections typically pretty short and Allama statement.

    Other systems like Bing, and Bard, you know, tell us, there’s no developer API.

    So there’s no way to look at the underlying system and say, This is exactly how this thing works.

    Think of think of AI models like operating systems, right? If you have an iPhone, and you have an Android, they are very similar, right? They are very similar in that you can do a lot of the same stuff on each one may have similar apps, they have kind of a similar interface, but they’re not the same.

    You can’t go on Android phone to the Apple Store and, and buy and install iOS apps on your Android phone and vice versa just does not work.

    They’re incompatible.

    at a fundamental level, even though from our perspective as end users, they seem like nearly the same thing.

    So what does this mean? What should you do with this information? Fundamentally, as you start to Britt to build out your prompt libraries, which is something I very strongly encourage everyone to do.

    You’re going to want to separate your prompt libraries by system.

    So you’re going to have prompts that you know or have tested or have experimented with, and work well on Bard, you’re gonna have prompts that work well on GPT-4.

    All you got to have prompts that work well on mid journey.

    And when you start with a new system, or a new model, or even an upgraded model, you will, you can use pre existing prompts that you’ve written in the past, but understand it’s probably going to take some time to sort of tune in to how each new model works and how that model works best in terms of prompts.

    Generally speaking, if you want prompts to do really well look for developer documentation, look for the instructions given to coders as to how to talk to their those systems behind the scenes.

    This is how, for example, we know that the structure of OpenAI system is designed to work they published a very detailed instructions in GPT, for all and all the systems around that there’s detailed instructions.

    The other thing you can do is that there are huge communities available online, that people are sharing prompts, which I think they need to be careful because a prompt is nothing more than software and you might not want to share your intellectual property, your specific software but that’s an that’s a talk for another time.

    There are these different places you can go where people have huge prompt libraries, you can go and grab prompts from other people who have gotten them to work well on other systems.

    For example, if you are working with mid journey, there’s a mid journey Discord server has a whole Discord community, you can join that community and see a library of things that work really well.

    You can join one of the many many love llama community so gnomic AI has a huge community and there’s people trading prompts there, you can join OpenAI cert Discord server.

    You’ll notice by the way, kind of a theme, most of the big AI tech places and company He’s in startups.

    They’re all on Discord.

    So if you’re not comfortable with Discord, now would be the time to become comfortable with Discord because that’s where a lot of the action is happening.

    That’s where a lot of the cutting edge stuff is happening and is where in many cases, announcements are made first to the most devoted members of the community, so that they can take advantage of things like new betas or new new things to opt into new tools, as they’re announced.

    Before that news spreads to other parts of the internet.

    So prompts aren’t 100% portable, but they are, they do have a lot of commonalities.

    They are not necessarily one to one system system.

    And if you want to know what works best, join one of the many, many communities out there that people are just trading these things like like Pokemon, and and find stuff that works best for the use case that you want.

    That’s the show for today.

    Thanks for tuning in.

    I’ll talk to you soon.

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  • Mind Readings: The WGA Strike and Artificial Intelligence

    Mind Readings: The WGA Strike and Artificial Intelligence

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    Let’s talk about the very timely topic of the Writers Guild of America strike and one of their demands. In particular, this is about artificial intelligence. No surprise, I have no expertise in the rest of their proposal about how writers are paid, but I do have expertise in artificial intelligence. In their position document, the WGA said the following:

    “In regards to artificial intelligence, they demand studios regulate the use of artificial intelligence on MBA-covered projects as a means of products that the union works on. AI cannot write or rewrite literary material, can’t be used as source material, and MBA-covered material can’t be used to train AI. Okay, let’s unpack this.

    They’re saying that, from their perspective as writers, they don’t want machines writing or rewriting literary material. Writing, I can understand, rewriting machines are really good at that. The critical one is that their writing can’t be used as source material and MBA-covered material can’t be used to train any topic. That ship has sailed.

    If you look at all the public, large language models like GPT-4, GPT-NeoX-20B, PaLM, LLaMa… all of them. There are tons of sites online that archive scripts and transcripts of TV shows and movies. There are subtitles available for every single major production going to open subtitles.org. Their writing is already in these models, decades of it in these models. So that ship has sailed.

    The part that I think the WGA has underestimated, particularly with streaming companies, is that streaming companies are technology companies first, their entertainment company second, right? They are tech companies. Think about Apple at Apple TV plus, okay, think about Amazon and Amazon Prime. Think about Netflix. These are not legacy entertainment companies like MGM, Paramount, or CBS. These are tech companies that happen to have a foot in the wall entertainment.

    They will, without question, use the WGA strike as a golden opportunity to replace writers as quickly as they can. And they have the tech and the know-how to do so. Yeah, legacy studios will struggle with getting the tech up and running. But Amazon, it would not surprise me if Amazon Studios already had custom large language models trained specifically on their massive content catalog ready to go. I mean, Amazon started selling their bedrock language model interface two weeks ago through their AWS service. It’s for others to be able to do so.

    That I think this is probably not the position I would have gotten, right? Because think about will Hollywood adopt machines instead of humans for scriptwriting. Of course, they would. It’s an improvement of profitability. And let’s face it, Hollywood studios are not known for their super original content. A lot behind projects get greenlit for profitability reasons, not artistic ones. And if a production can cost $5 million, less just, you have machines doing 80% of the writing.

    No studio exec in the right mind is gonna say no to that. And think about it. This is why we’ve got a never-ending supply of reboots and retreads and entertainment. This strike and the implications for AI is going to change the profitability models in entertainment. The companies can spin up the tech real fast; they’re going to shed headcount, and they’re going to move ahead of their peers, the legacy shops that can’t get up to speed with tech is going to fall behind the more tech-enabled companies. And when you think about copyright, yeah, the script, the writing itself might not be copyrightable if it’s purely generated by machine, but that script is not the final IP; the produced show is. So from that perspective, there’s not much of a copyrightation.

    So what should the WGA consider as its negotiating position? For me – Now, again, I am not a writer, I do not work in entertainment other than the Save Warrior Nun campaign, and I do not have expertise in the entertainment industry. But I do know machines. So instead of that absolutist, no AI negotiating position, what they probably should have gone with, and they still can, is to make it a demand that WGA writers are required to oversee the use of AI in script production with a quota of one to one. One person for one instance of machinery for production is using a machine. With a technical person on a union production, a WGA writer is required to supervise its use and its output. And so it’s not a case where a tech division in a streaming company could just spin up a room full of GPT instances and scrape a whole bunch of scripts. Now, you still need to do a decent amount of prompt engineering for that and custom model training. But it would be trivial for the WGA to say, “Yeah, our writers are going to be attached to the hip to your tech folks, our writers are going to be in the system itself, looking at what people are putting in for prompts and what comes out.”

    And this is going to do two things. One, it keeps the WGA writers meaningfully employed. And second, it will show both the studios and the writers what the strengths and limitations of these large language models are because they do have strengths like rewriting things; they’re really good at that. Writing new stuff? Not as good as that. They can’t really generate truly original new ideas. But they absolutely could take, you know, a script from an old Knight Rider episode and transform it into a Pokémon episode. These machines are extremely good at rewriting.

    Prompt engineering, which is the discipline of writing that programming language, plain English code that goes into these machines to get them to do what we want them to do, is something that requires expertise. There is no one better qualified conceptually to be a prompt engineer than a skilled writer. So the WGA’s position should be that they are going to be doing the prompt engineering as well as supervising. I think that would give the studios the ability to use the technology to reduce the time to output and speed up production without eliminating WGA writer positions. And WGA writers will be able to supervise and put a leash on AI without outright saying, “Nope, it’s not allowed here,” because the reality is, it’s already in the technical studios, and those who use it are just gonna march right ahead. And they will use the strike as an excuse to say, “Well, I don’t have human writers, so we’ll just use the machine writers,” and that’s not a position that’s going to help consumers.

    If we’re going to get retreads of retreads, it’s not going to help writers. And in the long term, it might not help the studios either because they will be more profitable with it, but the content won’t be as good. So, again, if you work for the WGA and you are a union member, please feel free to send this along to the leadership. If you work in entertainment and you’ve spotted some obvious flaws in my argument, please let me know. Leave a comment or whatever. But that’s where things stand right now, and I think there’s going to be a sea change accelerated by the strike. So hopefully folks can adopt a more nuanced position on AI sooner rather than later.

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    Christopher Penn 0:00

    In today’s episode, let’s talk about the very timely topic of the Writers Guild of America strike and one of their demands.

    In particular, this is about artificial intelligence, no surprise, I have no expertise in the rest of their proposal about how writers are paid.

    But I do have expertise in artificial intelligence.

    In their position document, the WGA said the following.

    Christopher Penn 0:23

    In regards to artificial intelligence, they demand studios regulate the use of artificial intelligence on MBA covered project as a means products that the union works on.

    AI cannot write or rewrite literary material can’t be used as source material and MBA covered material can’t be used to train AI.

    Okay, let’s unpack this.

    Christopher Penn 0:41

    They’re saying that, from their perspective, as writers, they don’t want machines writing or rewriting literary material writing, I can understand rewriting machines are really good at that.

    Christopher Penn 0:52

    The, the critical one is the their writing can’t be used to source material and MBA covered material can’t be used to train any topic.

    That ship has sailed.

    Christopher Penn 1:01

    If you look at all the public, large language models like GPT-4 GPT, Neo x 20, be long on all of them.

    There are tons of sites online that archive scripts and transcripts of TV shows and movies, there are subtitles available for every single major production going to open subtitles.org.

    Christopher Penn 1:25

    Their writing is already in these models, decades of it in these models.

    So that ship has sailed

    Christopher Penn 1:32

    the part that I think the WGA has underestimated, particularly with streaming companies, is that streaming companies are technology companies first, their entertainment company second, right? They are tech companies think about Apple at Apple TV plus, okay, think about Amazon and Amazon Prime.

    Think about Netflix.

    These are not legacy entertainment companies is not MGM, or paramount, or CBS.

    These are tech companies that happen to have a foot in the wall entertainment.

    Christopher Penn 2:06

    They will, without question, use the WGA strike as a golden opportunity to replace writers as quickly as they can.

    And they have the tech and the know how to do so.

    Yeah, Legacy studios will struggle with getting the tech up and running.

    But Amazon, Amazon, it would not surprise me if Amazon Studios already had custom large land of models trained specifically on their massive content catalog ready to go.

    I mean, Amazon started selling their bedrock language model interface two weeks ago, through their AWS service.

    It’s for others to be able to do so

    Christopher Penn 2:46

    that I think this is probably not not the position I would have gotten, right.

    Because think about will Hollywood adopt machines instead of humans for script writing.

    Of course they would.

    It’s an improvement of profitability.

    And let’s face it, Hollywood studios are not known for their super original content a lot behind projects get greenlit for profitability reasons, not artistic ones.

    And if a production can cost $5 million, less just you have machines doing 80% of the writing.

    Christopher Penn 3:13

    No studio exec in the right mind is gonna say no to that.

    And think about it.

    This is why we’ve got a never ending supply of reboots, and retreads and entertainment.

    This strike and the implications for AI is going to change the profitability models in entertainment.

    The companies can spin up the tech real fast, they’re going to shed headcount and they’re going to move ahead of their peers, the legacy shops that can’t get up to speed with tech is going to they’re going to fall behind to the more tech enabled companies.

    And when you think about with copyright, yeah, the script the writing itself might not be copyrightable if it’s purely generated by machine but that script is not the final IP at the produced show is so from that perspective, there’s there’s really not much of a copyright ation.

    So what should the WGA consider as it’s a negotiating position for me now, again, I am not a writer, I do not work in entertainment other than the Save Warrior Nun campaign, right.

    And I do not have expertise in the entertainment industry.

    But I do with machines.

    So instead of that absolutist, no AI negotiating position, what they probably should have gone with and they still can that could change the position.

    So if you’re with the WGA group, please consider taking this input and feeding it back to the folks who are making decisions

    Christopher Penn 4:32

    make it the demand instead that WGA writers are required to oversee the use of AI and script production with a quota of one to one.

    One person for one instance of machinery for production is using

    Christopher Penn 4:45

    a machine with a technical person on a union production a Wi Fi router is required to supervise its its use and its output.

    And so it’s not a case where a tech division

    Christopher Penn 5:00

    Have a streaming company could just spin up a roomful of GPT instances and scrap a whole bunch of scripts now, you still need to do a decent amount of prompt engineering for that, and custom model training.

    But

    Christopher Penn 5:12

    it would be trivial for the WGA.

    To say, Yeah, our writers are going to be attached to the hip to your your tech folks, our writers are going to be in the system itself, looking at what people are putting in for prompts and what comes out.

    And this is going to do two things.

    One, it keeps the WGA writers meaningfully employed.

    And second, it will show both the studios and the writers what the strengths and limitations of these large language models are, because they do have strengths like rewriting things, they’re really good at that, writing that new stuff, not as good as that, right? They can’t really generate truly original new ideas.

    But they absolutely could take, you know, a script from an old night writer episode and transform it into a Pokeyman episode.

    Maybe these machines are extremely good at rewriting,

    Christopher Penn 6:08

    filing

    Christopher Penn 6:10

    front engineer, which is the discipline of writing that fleeting language, plain English code that goes into these machines to get them to do what we want them to do.

    Christopher Penn 6:21

    There is no one better qualified conceptually, conceptually, to be a prompt engineer than a skilled writer.

    So the WGA is position should be, we’re going to be doing the prompt engineering, as well as supervise, I think that would give the studios the ability to use the technology to reduce the time to output right to speed up production without eliminating WGA writer positions.

    And WGA writers will be able to supervise and put a leash on AI without outright saying Nope, it’s not allowed here, because the reality is, it’s already in the technical studios, and those who use they’re just gonna march right ahead.

    And they will use the strike as an excuse to say, well, I don’t have human rights, so we’ll just use the machine lens, and that’s not a position that’s going to help consumers.

    If we’re gonna get retreads of retreads, it’s not going to help writers.

    And in the long term, it might not help the studio’s either because they will be more profitable with it, but the content won’t be as good.

    So, again, he worked for the WGA.

    If you are a union member, please feel free to send this along to the leadership.

    If you work in entertainment, and you’ve had spot some obvious flaws in my argument, please let me know, leave in the comments or whatever.

    But that’s, that’s where things stand right now.

    And

    Christopher Penn 7:43

    I think there’s going to be a sea change accelerated by the strike, so hopefully folks can adopt a more nuanced position on AI sooner rather than later.

    Thanks for watching.

    Talk to you soon.

    Christopher Penn 7:57

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  • Mind Readings: How Should Educators Think About Generative AI?

    Mind Readings: How Should Educators Think About Generative AI?

    In this episode, I discuss how educators should approach the use of generative AI in the classroom. While some schools are banning its use, these tools are not going away and are being adopted by businesses for their ability to create content better, faster, and cheaper. The role of education should shift from being a gatekeeper of information to teaching critical thinking skills, such as how to evaluate information and identify misinformation. Generative AI should be used to demonstrate its capabilities, take care of tasks that are not worth doing, and as a foil for exploring student knowledge. Education should focus on developing creativity, the ability to derive insights from data, and critical thinking skills that are highly valued in today’s world. So, educators should ask themselves whether banning an AI tool that speeds up the manufacturing process detracts from education, and if it does, they are not teaching the right things.

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    In today’s episode, let’s talk about how educators should be thinking about generative AI.

    I got an email from my son’s school saying, we have forbidden the use of gender to AI tools like ChatGPT.

    And our anti plagiarism systems will be rigorously looking for uses of generative AI and will, and so on and so forth.

    They went on for a bit.

    And I’m like, no, they don’t.

    I happen to know a decent number, the plagiarism tools, and they are really bad at detecting a, they’re not great at detecting plagiarism and B, they have very little chance of detecting well constructed generated text.

    Now, if you just write a one sentence prompt, and you copy and paste from that into a text document, yeah.

    But you also don’t need software to detect that that was written by ChatGPT.

    Because that always sounds the same out of the box without a lot of tweaking.

    So no good try educators.

    Here’s the thing that educators need to be thinking about, these tools are not going away.

    These This is not a fad, this is not something like a certain cryptocurrency or whatever, these tools are not going away.

    And the reason they’re not going away is because they enable better, faster, cheaper, right? You can create content that is better than what some people are capable of faster by a large margin and cheaper.

    Anything that creates better, faster, cheaper, is not going away in the world.

    That’s just the way the world works, right? Because everybody wants better, faster, cheaper.

    Businesses are adopting these tools like crazy, as fast as they can.

    Because again, better faster, cheaper.

    So education and educators need to have a real hard think about the things that occur within the classroom, the activities that we do the exercises, what we teach students, how we teach students how what learning looks like.

    And say what is the value that we provide? A lot of education is still stuck in an in a 20th century mindset that education is the gatekeeper, right? These are the gatekeepers of knowledge and will impart knowledge upon the students.

    That hasn’t been the case for a while, but as definitely has not been the case since 2007.

    Because these devices, which are in every student’s hands, are the gateways to information now, education, and the classroom is not where you get information.

    So telling students Oh, you can’t use this tool that exists that literally the whole planets using and the businesses are desperate to find talent for paying $330,000 a year to find.

    We’re not gonna allow that.

    And in schools, it’s like those schools that tried to ban the internet.

    Yeah, that worked out really well, didn’t it? So what is the role of generative AI? How should educators be thinking about it? Let’s take the 10 standard term paper, right? Take a term paper.

    What does writing a term paper teach you? What is it? What is it good for? Synthesizing data, synthesizing information coming up with a perspective? Perhaps.

    But ChatGPT, you can write a term paper probably better than you can on any given topic? So what are you really learning? The mindset that education needs to adopt and rapidly is not being a gatekeeper of information.

    But teaching the skills of how to critically evaluate information, how to look at information go, that’s wrong, or that requires more research, or that has some nuance to it.

    That is not explained clearly here.

    And equipping equipping students with those capabilities, and maybe a term papers that tool but probably not if a machine can do it.

    What can’t a machine do? What can a machine realistically not do in a classroom setting? Think about things like debate, rhetoric, argument, think about building points of view that are opinion based on data.

    Right? Is climate change real? All there’s evidence that there is how would you build a case for or against it? What kind of critical thinking would you adopt? And can you point out the logical flaws in any given positions argument? The the danger that tools like ChatGPT pose are not cheating on on exams and stuff because, again, let’s be honest exams that current format are not really all that effective.

    The danger that they pose to the greater society is they speak very authoritative ly even when they are authoritatively wrong, large language models right in such a way that comes across as very authoritative.

    And if you don’t think critically, if you can’t think critically, you read the app and go, Oh, that sounds good.

    I believe that even if it’s totally wrong, totally wrong.

    It is that subject matter expertise and the ability to think critically and look at a piece of information and evaluate, go, is that right? How would I know if that wasn’t right? What would I need to do to prove or disprove that? Those are the skills that 21st century Denmark or Sweden or Tuvalu or Malaysia or America neat? Because we have a lot of people and a lot of outright hostile governments around the world using these tools to create misinformation and disinformation.

    How do you teach people to think critically? How do you teach people to look at a post on social media going, you know, a, I think that was written by a machine and be I’m pretty sure that’s wrong.

    I’m pretty sure that’s that’s propaganda, not fact.

    That’s what education should be teaching.

    That’s how educators should be thinking about generative tools.

    I had a conversation with Dr.

    Nicole Rossi at Framingham State University not too long ago, who was explaining that in the senior level psychology class, they use ChatGPT.

    Right in the classroom, they will have it write about a specific topic like you know, abnormal psychology and have it put together a document and then the students role is to critique it, to say, this is what it got wrong.

    This is the nuance that wasn’t in there.

    This is what the machine didn’t know or the prompt wasn’t good enough to, to explain.

    That’s how you use these tools.

    Right? Use these tools to demonstrate their capabilities.

    You use these tools to take care of tasks that frankly, are not worth doing, like writing term papers.

    And most importantly, you use these tools as foils for helping explore students knowledge, you write, you haven’t write a position piece on the importance of recycling.

    And then you have students go research that figure, did it write something that was correct, or did write something was factually wrong.

    And that process of proving or disproving is the essence of critical thinking.

    Think about every political or social issue.

    That is a hot button issue.

    How many people who are partisans of that issue, have ever thought critically about the opposing point of view? Not many.

    How many people could be taught to think that way? If they want to do everyone? How many times have you looked at an issue that you’re passionate about and say, Well, if I was, if I was have the opposing point of view, what proof would I have that that point of view is valid? Sometimes there isn’t.

    Right? Someone, someone believing that the world is flat? It’s not.

    And there really isn’t any good way to disprove that point of view can look at how people present that argument.

    But it’s, you can disprove it with your own homemade weather balloon, a piece of garlic bread and a GoPro, which somebody did something to attach some garlic bread to a GoPro and send it up into space.

    It came back down they they tasted the garlic, right, it was pretty frozen.

    But the footage very clearly showed that the planet was a big sphere like object, right? Because it went so high up that you could say easily see a good chunk of the planet.

    That’s the role of generative AI, not to ban it school from educational institutions.

    Because that’s like banning search engines, like bending word processes banning calculators.

    The reality is these tools can be sticking around.

    And students need to know how to use them sooner, the better teaching students how to use them properly teaching students how to write prompts teaching students to QA the output.

    That’s the value and in doing so, you will resurrect a lot of those critical thinking skills that our current education system, particularly in the USA, where I’m based, is lacking.

    The USA education system today is a manufacturing system.

    It manufactures workers, right? It was built by Carnegie and Mellon and Rockefeller in the 1930s and the 1920s in America to make factory workers.

    Think about it.

    What are grades of school, the batches of the students? What is standardized testing?

    It’s QA testing to make sure that though, the batches of robots that you’re turning out aren’t defective.

    That’s what education is.

    That’s not what the world needs right now.

    Because we have actual robots for that.

    Now.

    That’s not where A value is created value is created now in today’s world with creativity, for being able to create something that a machine is not created, to be able to look at an enormous amount of data and derive real insights from it, to critically think and find weaknesses and a competitor strategy, all the skills that the world really values are not taught in schools, not in a manufacturing based education system.

    So for educators, look at what you’re doing.

    Look at the skills that are needed in today’s world.

    And ask yourself does betting an AI tool that speeds up the manufacturing process really detract from education? It shouldn’t, and if it does, you’re not teaching the right things.

    That’s all for this episode.

    Talk to you next time.

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