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we used to chase dragons now we Chase
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algorithms and uh you know since the
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dawn of
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Consciousness we've been driven by our
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curiosity now ai promises to answer all
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of our questions make all our dreams
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come true and it's not even off to a bad
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start I've seen things you people
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wouldn't believe AI generated worlds so
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immersive and intricate that they erased
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the lines of
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reality models that can compose
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Symphonies and novels so rich and
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profound they capture the essence of
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what it is to be
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human all these creations will be lost
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like lines of code on a corrupted hard I
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can't I didn't write this opening in my
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defense
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I had one of my assistants Do It um
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they're AI of
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course you didn't expect me to write
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this from scratch I
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mean that's what's Wild is that uh 18
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months ago I would be writing all this
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stuff from scratch and I wouldn't have
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any you know virtual writer room of
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assistance and great minds that are uh
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in these llms to help me um and that's
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how fast things change
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that's how fast we
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change because the story of artificial
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intelligence isn't just about the rise
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of intelligent
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machines it's about the transformation
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of humanity itself and that story starts
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today I'm an AI Explorer and I want to
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share my perspective my journey my
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concerns and my hopes how we might
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navigate the future
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ahead so let's wind the clocks back to
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November 30th 2022 chat GPT comes out it
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hits the world like a juggernaut you can
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feel it
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shake and every other report on TV ends
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with the person saying and this segment
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was written by chat
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gbt that got annoying fast but designers
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and entrepreneurs could generate code to
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build the apps that they could never do
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before with the help of the
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llms and throughout the land you can
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almost hear a collective have relief of
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high school students everywhere who had
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to help me write this
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button boy did we miss
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out I think like I could have really
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used a algebra tutor to be honest and it
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would have never got sick of my
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questions so all this stuff happens and
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it's displacement and at the time I was
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working uh at a startup and as a
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copywriter I thought I should really
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learn this AI
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stuff two weeks after chat came out I
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was let go of my
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job and as an ex copywriter I thought I
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should really learn this AI
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stuff so I did I I dove in head first
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and swam deep and within four months me
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and a co-founder released an app named
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prompt crafter uh it was great it uh
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could do text generation it was so fun
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to play this new tech uh it also could
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do pictures so it was multimodal
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multimodal what's that I don't want to
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bore you with the brilliant detail but
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uh it could do pictures and text one app
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it was a novel for the time and
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uh this is the first uh image it
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actually
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created that's for sure going to end up
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in the animals of History I just I just
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feel
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it uh so at the time like everyone's
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doing this right we're all jumping in
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we're playing with the stuff and and I'm
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just one of millions of people they're
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playing with and pushing this technology
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every day and
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that's great but as we Marvel at these
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wonders we must also consider the cost
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we must also consider how it's reshaping
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things in Norse
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mythology there's a story of
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Odin you you may heard of his sons Loki
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and Thor but it it all started with Odin
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and you know he was just a man and he he
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wanted to know everything about the
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universe and he heard that there was a
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guy out in the Land of the Giants named
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mirror so he went and he he sought him
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out and he found the cave and when he
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went in he saw this old man with a white
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beard sitting in front of this great
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pool of water and he asked
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him I want to know everything mamir
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teach me what do I have to do he says
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you have to drink from the pool of water
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but first you must pay the price and he
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said what's
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that take out one of your eyes and place
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it in the
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pool so Odin did
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and he uh put his eyee and put in the
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water and was floating up looking at him
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and he drank from the the pool and he
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gained all Cosmic knowledge and he saw
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farther with one eye than he ever did
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with
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two and I think that is a story of
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humanity and
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AI right now except there's one big
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difference is that we don't yet know the
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price so if you're paying attention
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there's actually signs of what these
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price could be of what the cost could be
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um and I think it's emerging in three
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critical Dimensions displacement is the
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first one so what's displacement okay
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people are going to lose jobs and have
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to Res skill um I think it's the IMF the
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international monetary fund they predict
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that 40% of all jobs will be affected
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that's a lot let's say they're wrong by
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half and it's only 20% still look around
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that means almost one of every four of
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us is going to be unemployed or looking
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for work in the next 10
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years and it's not always obvious that
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AI Bots are directly taking jobs
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sometimes it's more
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subversive uh case in point Tyler Perry
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he has a a huge film studio out in
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Atlanta 12 sound stages it's bigger than
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Warner Brothers and uh he was just about
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ready to pull the trigger on a $800
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million
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expansion and um when he saw this new
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technology come out it was a text to
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video engine named Sora s o r a if you
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haven't seen it put it in your notes to
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go home tonight watch the Youtube demo
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it's about 10 minutes of a handful of e
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clipse but it'll show you what he saw
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which is this is where the technology is
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now and it almost looks Hollywood level
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quality if he wants to have a a snowy
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Cabin in the Woods he can just type
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it but it's not just about all the jobs
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that were lost on the expansion think
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about all the food that'll never be
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served by Craft Services all the
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Carpenters and Craftsman that will never
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raise a hammer or the grips or lighter
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lighting people that will never bring in
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stuff all those jobs carved out with one
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decision because of one product so I
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think that puts it in
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perspective moving on to the next
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potential critical thing we have to
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worry about is
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weaponization now we've already seen
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what disinformation campaigns can do uh
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and divide us and now there's voice
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cloning technology where you could think
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you're talking to a loved one but it
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could be puppeteered by a criminal
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organization a cousin you haven't heard
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of from a long time he calls you up it
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sounds just like him and it only takes
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about 30 seconds of recorded audio right
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now to clone a voice with pretty good
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accuracy and it's not just the virtual
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dimensions of
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weaponization it's also the
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physical right now uh the US Marine
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Corps is testing and training alongside
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robot
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dogs with Armament strapped to their
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back that's no joke that's really
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happening and in uh Southern California
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there's a defense Tech startup named
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andural and they have this cool
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technology or kind of scary but it's
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called lattice and what lattice does is
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it corresponds with all of their
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Hardware out in the field so autonomous
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drones submarines surveillance towers
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and Soldiers with the equipment and the
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sensors they have and it's able to
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ingest all these data streams in real
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time and essentially play the
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battlefield like 3D
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chess have you noticed a
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pattern whatever this Tech
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touches becomes more Nimble more
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intelligent more
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efficient all while accelerating its own
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self-development so
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speed might be the most alarming out of
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all these Dimensions these critical
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Dimensions because it accelerates the
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first
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two AI is going so fast it's
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scarious I know I had to create my own
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word to describe the velocity of this
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thing it's really that
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fast and let's look at the hardware so
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on the hardware side this is Mo's law
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every two years let's say the number of
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transistors on a chip will
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double so that's not how AI works though
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AI uses compute so compute is graphic
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processing units they're just stacked up
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in the cloud and they're doing heavy
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heavy crunching almost like Bitcoin
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mining same thing using that same
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technology but it's accelerating at a
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rate of 10x every six months since
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November when Chachi BT came out back in
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2022 and if you've lived like most of us
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have through the mors law phase that's
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felt pretty fast I think but now we're
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on to another whole level it leaves
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Mor's law in the
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dust so we got displacement
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weaponization and
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speed and it's not like trying to hit a
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moving Target it's like trying to aim at
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a
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blur got
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heavy let's go to my special
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place let's all take a collective breath
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one two 3
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all right now let's talk
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Solutions I think the first thing is we
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need a global AI alignment
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Council so what does that look like um
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well the atomic energy commission
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regulates nuclear energy so we need
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something that's the same level as same
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level of
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vigilance because I believe when AI gets
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smarter could be 5 years five months
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maybe 10 years when it gets smarter it's
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going to be the equivalent of meeting an
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alien
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species and we don't know how aliens
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think so we need a global Force that's
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funded that's
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coordinated and that's full of experts
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that are AI researchers that are pushing
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the bounds of trying to understand
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abstract threat Theory because the way
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that this will attack us if it does we
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won't understand it that's how high
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level it is it might take us years to
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see the long game it's playing so we
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need to have a body of people that are
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coordinated and informed the best Minds
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in the world working to protect us
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Watchers on the
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wall that's one solution the next one is
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hi
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hi human investment
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initiative so there's going to be a big
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displacement a lot of jobs going away
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what are we going to do I think we need
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to invest in ourselves like never before
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Singapore has already taken the lead on
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this and their prime minister has agreed
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to put a billion
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dollars behind their reskilling program
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if you're 40 or
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above then you can get a free ride and
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go back to
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school and they're doing this cool thing
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where they're mixing the cohorts they
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want old and young working together the
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wisdom and experience life experience of
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the older people working next to the
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Fearless embracement Tech of the young
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which would create a dynamic
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Workforce and we need to do the same
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thing the Department of Defense their
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budget is bloated and it's unfocused why
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not peel off like a 100 billion a year
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to reinvest in ourselves
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because if uh 40% of the population
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being unemployed or displaced isn't a
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national security concern I don't know
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what is
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so these threats are out there but we
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have Solutions there's things we can
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do the good news is the world economic
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Forum says there's 97 million new jobs
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coming so that's cool and that's going
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to help us get started just by 2025 to
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be clear so that's happening right now
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but that's even more reason why we need
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to Res skill and get people back into
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the
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workforce and get them reskilled right
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now so let's let's invest in
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them and I think this signals a really
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positive movement those 97 million job
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figure because we're about to enter the
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most abundant time in human history
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there will be money for reskilling there
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will be money for oversight there will
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be medical breakthroughs that can extend
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our lives by decades
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more and things are going to get
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wonderfully
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weird you want to write and direct your
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own tent pole movie type the words you
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want to talk to animals would you like
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that to be a voice or
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chat you want to download your dream
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from last night and play it like a video
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game grab the controller we're about to
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enter one of the most fun amazing
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creative periods we've ever
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seen but we can't let AI
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become
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everything and in fact I think we have a
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big job to do
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it's on us to unplug to
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connect as great as these tools
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are we can't fall into the same traps we
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have
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before we can't let this amazing Tech
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divide us like social media has to push
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us
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apart we each have a personal
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responsibility and how we act and how we
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incorporate this technology into our own
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lives so be ruthless on how you set your
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boundaries because the one thing we
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cannot do is let this technology drive
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us further
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apart from where we are right
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now I actually believe it has the power
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to bring us together like never
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before because we have a
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responsibility to not
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forget the most important technology the
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most ancient and sacred
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technology and that is human connection
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[Applause]