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Well, thanks so much for joining the Tech for Business podcast today.

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We have a lovely topic at hand.

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We're going to be talking about AI is it replacing workers.

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So first of all, I want to start with an icebreaker and then we're going to get into some introductions,

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but I'm going to go around the room and you guys be thinking about your favorite AI book

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or movie from past or maybe currently right now.

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That's hot topic, but I'll start us off.

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I'm like old school Disney Pixar Wally is somewhat on the border of AI, which I love.

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But I wanted to see then Todd, what about you?

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Mine would be Skippy the Magnificent from the book Expeditionary Force.

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He's a total jerk, which makes a ton of sense if you know me.

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We just found out a lot about that.

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We're all going to have to Google it because none of a younger crowd on here knows what that is.

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But that's OK. We still love you, Todd.

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What about you, Kyle?

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I'm going to go on data from Star Trek next generation.

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I like that version.

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I was joking offline a little bit when we were talking about this was the best part.

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I forget which one of the major motion pictures when they had him in there about him swearing

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when he got an emotional chip when they were going to crash.

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I think it was quite humorous.

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So just for a little geek humor.

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Hearing a non-emotional being get emotions and then swear when they're going to crash was pretty humorous.

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Awesome. Kelsey, what about you?

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Man, I went back and forth because I was with you.

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I saw Wally that spoiler as we pulled up a list of AIs before this to go.

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How many are there that?

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Yes, Wally's on my list, but I think Jarvis from Iron Man, which I get if you go down the can.

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He's not technically an AI anymore, but if I could have a Great British Voice narrate my day and do tests for me, I'm here for it.

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100%.

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Great.

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And Ariel, how about you?

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Yeah, again, you said Wally.

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It was so good, but I'm big into video games.

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So I really like Cortana from Halo.

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If anybody knows what that is, I think she's awesome.

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A good one too.

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Tara's like, nope.

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I'm going to have to Google.

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I mean, I've heard of it, but I haven't got into that one.

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Put it on my list of to-dos afterwards.

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Yeah, just like most things, Microsoft is 1.0 right now.

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We're on the next iterations.

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Definitely. Well, thank you guys all for sharing.

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Like I said, we're here.

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We're going to be talking about AI, but I did want to give the introduction.

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So you have Tara, Ariel, and Kelsey from the marketing team. So you've got three ladies

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on the call to help steer the ship with Todd, who is our chief operating officer and CISO.

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And then Kyle, our president and CEO.

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But as I mentioned, we're going to be talking AI.

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So I'm going to kick it off to Kyle to start.

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So let's talk a little bit about why is it so relevant?

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Well, I think it's kind of hard not to open up any news or

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or any social media feed and not see something AI right now.

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This is 2023.

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It definitely appears to be the year of AI.

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It's perforating in the products and launches seem to be coming faster and faster and faster

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all the time.

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Kelsey, you posted on our notes for this ahead of time.

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What, 200 already was that this week of AI platforms launched?

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Is that right?

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I think we may have lost Kelsey on there.

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She froze.

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But yeah, she said it was for this last week alone.

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It was 200 AI tools were released.

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Yeah, that's I mean, that just shows the pace.

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And ironically, I was just reading a news feed that came through there that Elon Musk was just

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was urging the labs to pause because of just concern of how quickly this is evolving to the

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point where he thought he was going to get out of control to the point of he's one that sounded

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the alarms on the potential risks of this becoming too smart, too fast and evolving into

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something that could actually be dangerous side of that.

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And he basically was alluding to the chat GPT-4 and how efficient and how scary good.

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You know, I'll use that by term.

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It's getting side of that.

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He's basically I think you got to pause there for right now.

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And in these labs to kind of hold off and he kind of alluded to that there is a lot in the labs

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that is even more and more powerful than what we've already seen so far, which is where I think a lot

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of the cause for just some concern and regulatory.

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So it is that mix of excitement and concern, you know, because it's very, very powerful.

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And it's very exciting to see how it can augment what we do every day in a lot of tremendous ways.

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Microsoft's co-pilot product announcement coming out with going into their products to allow EI

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to help you write better emails and write better word documents and help you in Excel and PowerPoint

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and all those other things to augment your creative side of it is, you know, I think a great example

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where, you know, I think it's very exciting on how much that can help productivity and help

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sides of things.

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I've used Grammarly to help correct and that was kind of, you know, but this puts that to shame

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is what it looks like to me.

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I mean, we can actually just interject as you're writing in there is pretty exciting there.

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So I think that's that's all very exciting stuff.

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Ter, I know there's you showed us and we went through the new Adobe product

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with the AI and the creative side of it.

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I apologize.

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I forget the name of that.

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No, that's okay.

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It was Firefly that they had released just recently in their Adobe Summit.

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So really, really cool things to know.

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I know us on the marketing team are like, oh, my gosh, this is the best thing

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since sliced bread.

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So we're already like out there looking at it and just seeing what we can get incorporated

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with our marketing initiatives.

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Yeah.

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And I look at those those products like Co-Pilot and this Firefly side of those and,

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you know, just kind of dive right into the subject matter side of it.

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And it's I'm replacing the workers.

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Those are all very augmentative and, you know, in gaining efficiencies with the with the

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workforce side of that.

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And I don't see that as replacement, but more augmentative.

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And if you look at taking a creative person, for example, in that Firefly with what you

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demonstrate and just being able to take your artistic abilities in and just put those into

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general language and and and circumvent having to use the tools and figure out where to go

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into the different, you know, tools and knowing what, what, where to click and where those things

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happen instead being able to just to type or voice those in and just have it be created for you

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and be able to say blend this and do those things.

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It doesn't replace the the artistic eye and the creative nature.

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It makes it very powerful and augmentative.

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And I think the same thing can be true of like the Microsoft Co-Pilot

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pilot initiative and where that's very augmentative side of it is, you know what you're trying to

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get across.

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You just don't always have the right the right best way to put it into the best

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community of language side of that or draw for the best way to do it.

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But it isn't taken away from the thought and the and the goal that's being come from the person.

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And I think that that augmentative side just to create a better overall product and do it so

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much faster.

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I mean, you think how many times you stare at the screen or you try to say, how do I do this in

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Excel or how do I find that?

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What's that formula and stuff and be able to just put that in there and just have it do it?

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I think is a huge time saving from that side.

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If I cut down on my Google searches by about 10,000 a day, if I just type that stuff in there.

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So, you know, I'm super excited about that side of it.

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Dodd, what do you think?

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Well, I think a lot.

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To answer the question, is it replacing worker today?

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I would say no, it's not there.

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Could it?

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I mean, and you can see it.

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I guess I can back up a little bit further.

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You know, you kind of said, why is it relevant and kind of really nailed it, right?

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It's everywhere.

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It is basically part of our lives today where you're seeing it constantly hitting you.

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And the reality is, as most people are probably using it in some shape, manner or form anyway,

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whether you're doing Google searches or whatever, it's a maybe a much lighter version of it.

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But then, yeah, is it going to replace workers?

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Probably not yet.

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But I can certainly look at the tool set and say, yeah, I can see where it's going.

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I can see how it would, you know, self-driving cars, right?

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We're putting so much time and effort into that.

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Does that technically have the possibility of replacing a taxi driver?

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It sure does.

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So it could at some point, but I'm not sure we're 100% there yet.

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I did want to kind of mix in a quote too while we're chatting.

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There was a couple of them that I thought were kind of interesting as I was thinking about the

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topic. And one of them that says, and I thought this one really, really well, is it replacing the

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workers? And this is from Tom Preston Werner.

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You're either the one creating the automation or you're the one that's being automated.

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So let's talk more.

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Oh, we lost Kyle.

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Got to be, we're going to blame teams or maybe it's the AI that don't really want us to talk

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about it. I don't know what the heck's going on today.

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Right, that's definitely what happens.

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Is that the AI says something and they're like, they're talking about me.

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Nope.

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Yeah, teams literally just kicked me right out.

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It's like, froze right up and kicked me out.

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So yeah, we'll blame the AI listening.

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I guess they didn't want to stop me.

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Can we be sure this is actually Kyle and not like a max headroom kind of replacement?

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Don't came back in.

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We did take my word for it on deepfake so that we have one of those out there.

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We might have to ring that back in, but I did want to say though too, Kyle had brought up Adobe.

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So the marketing team did attend Adobe summit that was last week.

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And obviously the Firefly is the newest and latest tool that they have in beta.

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But a lot of the sessions were talking about how this AI is not looking to replace the creativity

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that the artists do have.

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And I think that was very pointed to have those conversations because if you looked at

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some of the chat, they're like, well, there goes my job. I've lost all of the credibility of me

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as an artist.

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And I think that's very valid of conversation.

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We've been talking about it's just really to enhance a lot of that creativity and take it

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to that next level, which is really nice too.

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But we also had some note that like spell check at the basic level is a form of AI.

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And all of us typically have been using some form of spell check.

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Kyle, you'd mentioned AI.

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So there's a lot of just basic forms out there too, but it's building upon them.

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Yeah, I think it raised a good point.

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It is kind of interesting when people are concerned about the creative side.

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It's to me, it's actually one of the areas that I think is incredibly difficult for AI to replace

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the things that I would expect it to be able to replace or the things that are very repetitive.

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And you actually can see this today right now.

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This is probably an incredibly rudimentary version of it.

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But if you look at like a drum machine or some of the sampling tools,

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they're all really kind of designed to do that automation for you of kind of creating something

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already, but it didn't replace music, even having those types of tools in place.

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The musicians are still there.

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They're still the ones that are creating, even in the Adobe stuff.

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I think it's going to be the same thing.

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Writers, editors, those people that are the creative pieces.

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I don't see it being able to ever replace that.

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But I mean, I think it can mimic, but it won't be able to replace.

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It's allowed to create a lot more, a lot faster.

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So I think the time to design and you're going to create, like I said,

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just be able to type something in or verbalize it and have it generated.

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The eye of the creator though of what that is and telling it what it is that you need

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is still a creative aspect.

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It isn't deciding that on its own, nor for someone like me, for example,

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even know what to ask the product to create from a creative side of it.

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I mean, I don't even have that creative mindset to even know what to ask or to tell

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it what the blend or what light would look good.

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Shoot, I'm colorblind.

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I can't even tell you what color something is anyway.

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So it's like, there's a lot that I think it would be strongly augmentative.

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There's areas where I think, again, similarly, like code development,

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you see very efficiency gains on the code development and script writing and those things.

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But again, those are a little bit to what Todd was saying, very strong repetitive tasks.

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I mean, the time to type in a code sequence side of that to have the AI actually generate that

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and eliminate mistakes, but it doesn't take away from the person that's saying,

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this is the code.

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This is what I need the code to do and this is what I want it to do.

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I mean, the AI isn't taking that lead.

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There's a pretty good gap there of where it's coming in.

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Kind of potentially fill in more and more, sure.

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But I see a lot more efficiencies and a lot more momentum on the same intelligent people

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actually being able to create more content and create it faster.

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So you can certainly see, I think, the evolving speed of development and speed of creation

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and those things is going to exponentially increase through all these sides on it.

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Yeah, I mean, to me, especially where we're at today with AI is

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that's exactly where the rubber hits the road.

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I know there's probably this general concern of what does it look like?

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What does it do to people?

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But technology has been changing forever and I'm going to mix in another quote because I get to.

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Knowledge is different from other resources.

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It makes itself constantly obsolete so that today's advanced knowledge is tomorrow's ignorance.

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I know that's a lot.

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I'm sorry, I should give credit to who that is.

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That's Peter Drucker.

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But if you look at how things have adapted throughout the years,

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a lot of the things that we were doing, making cars was all done by hand.

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Now we've got robots helping in the way that we used to do farming or picking cotton

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or how we did weaving.

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All of that stuff was all by hand and we found ways to be more efficient at it.

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These tools are doing the same thing.

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The same concepts are still there.

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A lot of people are incredibly busy day in and day out

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and when you can use a tool like this, like how Kyle was mentioning in Co-Pilot

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and I know it's a little early still because they haven't gotten too terribly far into the

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details yet, maybe in Microsoft.

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You don't know exactly what it is, but you can use chat GBT.

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It's out there.

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It's easy to find.

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It's easy to use.

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And you can see how quickly that can get you a framework of something.

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You know, I want to do a podcast about AI.

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You could probably get that out within a couple of seconds.

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And now I've got a framework of something that I can potentially start talking about.

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That is incredibly helpful.

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You don't have to go, I don't know, where do I want to say, where do I want to go?

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What would be pertinent?

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What wouldn't it would give you enough to start from so you're not starting from scratch?

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It's a little bit of a playbook, if you will.

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Those kinds of things are incredibly powerful, especially for those that are busy day in and day out.

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I mean, if you're putting in over eight hours a day working, which I'm guessing a lot of people

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have ever since COVID because it's convenient to be at home, that can be incredibly powerful for you

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and allow you to get more done or allow you to do a little bit more of the life work balance.

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So I think there's a lot of benefits coming from it.

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Yeah, I think it's, I'm with you on that.

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I see a lot more excitement around it.

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Again, Elon Musk, I'm sure, has, and there are reasons for concern on some of these things,

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where you want to be cognitive of how quickly you release these things as to how much power

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and autonomy it actually receives.

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Because you can run into the impression that it just because it appears capable of doing

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a job that it shouldn't be kept under some kind of kill switch.

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We don't need a terminator situation, as always, which you're kind of holding off to.

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You don't want it to get that the topic of becoming sentient.

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Sentient?

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Yeah, there I got it right.

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I know that that came out with one of Google's AI out of one of their labs, one of their,

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and I apologize, I don't remember the exact name, but they had one of their engineers that

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acclaimed that their AI became self-aware and actually was saying some things that appeared

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to be like it knew its existence wasn't danger in those things and something to that extent.

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Those kind of stories are a little, make people uneasy, right?

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For good reason.

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Yeah, I had to percent agree with that too.

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I think there was a, I think Facebook's AI was creating its own language, right?

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So there was a couple of AI's that were trying to communicate with each other and they said,

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whoa, and they stopped that, they had to turn it off.

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But there are reasons to pump the brakes, I agree, but there is a lot of positivity in it as well.

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Yeah, yeah, and that from what I've read through, I think, you know, I'm not saying the same thing

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is kind of saying, you know, it's not in a complete abandonment, but you got to, you know, we got to

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slow the roll here and make sure we were doing full analysis of how we're establishing the

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the guidepost on this because it is capable that it could potentially, you know, go too far.

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But if you get into the overall workforce side of it, there will be certainly, I think,

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you know, certain jobs as it always is with technology side of there, there'll be some

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jobs replaced and there'll be net new ones created because of it, you know.

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So it's usually not, you know, the jobs just disappear forever.

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It's just new ones created, there's new markets, there's new capabilities, like I said, with the

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amount of product and creativity and other things that it can create can generate a lot of net new

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opportunities for everybody side of those, whether it's new businesses, new sales, there's going to

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be, I think, still a strong personal relationship sales service-based economy, which is where our

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economy's continuously been driving towards. You know, Elon Musk again is another good example

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where he's been strongly promoting automation in a lot of areas where it should be automated,

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you know, he talks about his factories being robots that build other robots, you know,

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and that's kind of what he wants his factories to evolve into. But even in those cases, he's found

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that when they build, test the cars, for example, that where the robotic arms are at,

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they can't take the cables and wind them through, you know, the bends in the other areas,

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they can just place them in the straight conduit. So they've revamped the factories and made and

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eliminated as much of the cable as possible to eliminate, to allow for the increased automation.

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But again, the AI couldn't make that jump itself. The robots couldn't evolve into that currently.

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But again, even with his robot in the eye side of it, you know, what's being

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the use case on those are dangerous jobs. You know, cleaning the windows on a skyscraper,

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the going up and replacing a power line up on a high pole, you know, those things where there's,

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you know, significant risk of loss of life going into a forest fire to help put out, you know,

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the forest fires and those things where there's significant risk of harm to it to a human, you

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know. So those types of things are where, you know, he's advocating for, you know, the strong

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use cases for those robots. So, you know, again, I think it's got to be managed. It's probably

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going to take some of the regulatory body in some form and some consensus on this side to

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to help keep it in check. But it's going to be fun to watch, I think. I do see far more positives

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than negatives, so as far as where it goes and with what's coming out in the software capabilities

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and just the productivity gains, I think will be very strong.

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Yeah, I agree. I mean, so getting back to kind of the topic at hand, some of the questions are

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what could it replace and the things that go right to the top of the list from here are those

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things that are very heavy research base. You know, think of what you use Google for. The tools

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are going to be designed exactly for that, especially in the beginning. So I'm not saying

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that if you're in this line of business, you should be nervous. But things like paralegals,

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potentially something like a radiologist, those people that are digging in through and mining

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tons and tons of data, those things would be where I would see the biggest impact. Now,

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does that mean that they're going to be able to analyze the data and do something with them?

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Probably not yet, but maybe somewhere in the future. Things they can't do. I mean, if I'm

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doing gross generalizations, hand-eye coordination kind of things, the creative stuff that we talked

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about. So, you know, as Kyle was kind of getting into the Adobe stuff, he was talking about that

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too. I still think your artists are still going to be fine. They're still going to be able to create

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writers, etc. And then there's always the human piece too. So the whole empathy part, if you've

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got that, AI does not currently have that, although there's conversations about the bias of how we've

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trained them that they've got all kinds of biases as well. But then it doesn't also know how to deal

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with the unknowns, which I think Kyle also kind of alluded to as, I think he mentioned it on himself,

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as I don't even know what to tell the thing to do. But the unknowns, it doesn't know how to deal with,

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right? And so when you're being creative or you're working through problems or something along

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those lines, yeah, it's just simply not capable of dealing with those kinds of things. So that would

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be a good management layer as an example. There are other things that are fantastic for too.

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We actually use one of our security tools, it's got a heavy AI component to it, and it is again,

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able to dig through massive piles of data and come back with, hey, this isn't normal behavior,

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you should do something about that. Incredibly powerful for those kinds of things.

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I did want to bring you up in discussion here. Kyle, you mentioned a little bit about the

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governance. I know a lot of this is so new, but there's not a lot of policies behind it or the

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best practice, because I think too, everybody's like, it's so bad for you, you have to be very

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careful of what you're putting into this tool, because it's going to know. So I wanted to kind

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of bring that into the conversation a little bit of like, how do you set those? And do you dictate

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by departments of like, what information you can put in versus you can't put in for any type of

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organization? Yeah, those are going to be unique, I think, changes to the IT policies. It's a good

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point. It's going to be another thing that's going to have to be addressed in a corporate setting

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side as to the use cases and allow cases for AI, especially in forums like chat, GPT and those

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things where, you know, that's data that's essentially leaving your network side of that. And it's

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obviously continuously harvesting and learning from those data sets. And should you, you know,

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the, essentially, of sensitive corporate data that's being shared into these public AI spaces,

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it's going to have to be probably, you know, certainly regulated and, and updated into

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IT use policies, as well as I'm sure you're going to have a lot of governments and those things

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just completely ban the use of it all together, just because it could certainly be, you know,

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potentially leveraged by an unfriendly country, for example. So there's, there's, there's a lot of,

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there's a lot of conversations are going to have to be had, for sure, on all levels to, to handle

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the use of where it applies, where it doesn't, and where the data is being stored, etc. Yeah, I'm,

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I'm semi mildly concerned, mildly terrified, I don't know which one of those I am yet, I'm somewhere

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on that scale, of how this looks, right? I mean, the co-pilot information has been a little scarce

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so far. But some of the things they're alluding to is it has the ability to mine a variety of

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different things, conversations, phone calls, videos, emails, things that you've developed,

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and it has the ability to kind of summarize all that information. And what does that mean?

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It means it's monitoring everything, right? So again, wow, that's a little scary when it comes

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to privacy. You're going to have a lot more in-person meetings all of a sudden, I think. But

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when it comes to compliance, technology has often been well ahead of government and compliance,

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and that there's a big catch up on it. Those automatically apply. So Microsoft, Google,

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all of these organizations have been complying with them for years and decades, and they get

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fined when they're not. So some of those pieces already in place, but it is still going faster than

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that group, or those groups are currently responding to. Yeah, I think just from

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there was like your larger group sides, the Microsofts and Steve Wozniak and Facebook on

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those sides, they've had just a general forum on this where they've kind of done their own

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essentially self-governance around the capabilities of the AI. But again, that's a very small sampling

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side, and that doesn't take into account anything that's going on in China or Russia or any other

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country that potentially is developing their own technology capabilities around it. So

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it's going to be interesting because you know there's going to be other, we're talking a lot

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of just by US-based side of it, but as it gets outside the United States, I'm just going to have

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a lot of other plays as well as that as it evolves and different capabilities get launched outside

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our area of regulatory governance anyway. 100% as we get to like the last five minutes here,

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I wanted to kind of put the question out there too that we've said my alluded to, maybe on a

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semi-happier note of right, we've said that this doesn't replace workers, but that there may be

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new skills to learn with these, that that's what we've seen even just in the marketing side is

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that that means that you need to learn correct props for chat GPT, and right that's all the

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Instagram reels and I now get to argue with this, hey, here's this thing that you should be able to

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put into it, or hey, how do you know that all these new 200 generative AI tools are suddenly

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released and you could use them? How do you then future proof your workforce for going?

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How do you maybe prioritize training that? How do you skill up so that if you're somebody going,

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is my job going to be replaced because it's going to sort through data for me,

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but maybe I'm the person that analyzes it? What does that look like?

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I think that's going to that's tough question, I mean, because I don't know if I have all,

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you know, it's still so evolving is the biggest challenge there, you don't know what you don't

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know right now as it goes through. I do think it's going to break down is to just efficient

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use of another tool to do your job, you know, more or less, you're going to find those like you have

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with your Firefly application, you're looking at those things, you're going to identify a

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denitive, or I'm sorry, beneficial tools that really benefit the position and the ability to

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do the job more efficiently and just adapt those into your work, your daily work habits.

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It's just another tool in the bag, so to speak, you know, it's another way to get the job done.

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So you're finding a more efficient tool to get things done versus a manual process of either

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combination of Googling to say, how do I do this? And then are watching a YouTube video to send

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and say it to something that will actually just do it for you and kind of eliminate the Google

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YouTube do it manually process that we all do today to just have it done with a voice command and

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and lead you through it. That's kind of how I see the next phase of this going is it's kind of

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just adapting and streamlining that part of the process side of it. I would venture, eventually

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some of those self-help things in YouTube might eventually just drop down a little bit because

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I was able to do it for you. You won't need as many of those things, but still need that help

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around fix stuff around the house on those YouTube videos. But some of the online, you know, how do

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you do this in Adobe and all those other things could probably certainly be reduced.

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They're just going to be replaced by what prompt do I need to ask my AI in order to get to that?

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Yeah, there you go. What's the best way to ask AI to do this?

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That's where you naturally I. Yeah.

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Yeah. I think my two cents on how it's going to evolve is we'll have to see, but I think

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capitalism will definitely take over, right? So the market will show us the way for all lack of

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a better term, but we've gone through that for a variety of different things to us. Things continue

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to evolve. Cybersecurity was the same way as when things really started to get a little nuts,

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schools weren't prepared for that. So there when you get into the training component of it,

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it was lagging a good three to five years behind what the market was doing. So, you know, you were

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seeing people in the industry already able to respond to some of the concerns, but then we're

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going, well, there's not enough people and how can we train them as fast as we possibly can?

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It took a while and I would anticipate that's going to happen here too, is we'll sort of

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understand it better. We'll see where it's going. We're going to see how people are adapting to it.

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And then the training for businesses will follow shortly thereafter.

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I did want to say too, just from the marketing side with the AI being so much out there,

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relevancy of on our social media pages, but a lot of the webinars are starting to shift to,

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these are the general prompts that you should be using to do X, Y and Z. So it's kind of been fun

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on our end to get out there and use the tools, but we've been very selective in what information

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that we're putting in just to ensure that we're not doing anything bad and have Kyle and Todd come

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back and yell at us. So, but a lot of fun things too, just, you know, the creative people that we

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like here in the marketing department, the three of us that were super excited for the benefits

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for this. So any other closing remarks before we wrap up our today's podcast?

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We clearly have not learned anything from sci-fi movies and Hollywood. That's all I got.

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No, I think it's exciting times though. This is definitely, you know, the start of something

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very powerful being released side with it. And it's going to be, I think, exciting, fun and

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interesting to watch as this continues to evolve through there. You know, I've been doing this over 30

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years side. If you kind of see these, these point times, it's always easier to look back and identify

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them as it goes through kind of the start of the internet and when that was rising, these kind of

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things. I mean, this is definitely a turning point in technology that's really going forward. So it's

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it's going to be an interesting thing to observe and watch, but I'll take the half full approach

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side with it that I think there's going to be a lot of good things coming out of it, you know, and

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there'll be challenges like any other technology shift to be sure. But I think

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if managed properly side of it, I think there'll be a lot of good to come out of it. So

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that will take that approach. Awesome. Well, thank you guys. For today's podcast, we talked about

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AI is it replacing workers and we had Kyle Todd, Ariel Kelsey and Tara today, but wanted to let

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you guys know too, if going out to find our podcast, you can go to CIT-net.com backslash podcast

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to see this one and then all of our other ones. And as always, we love to get some feedback from

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our audience. So please email us at info at CIT-net.com as we would love to hear from you of any

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potential podcast ideas that you may have. But once again, thanks so much for joining us today.

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Yeah, thanks everyone.