Chasing Ai Across Borders… Carefully… part 2 (protest-free)
Disclaimer:
Everything below is a mix of what I observed and heard during the event. The goal isn’t to pinpoint "who exactly said what," but to share (usually) an outsider's view and overall perspective on these industries. I’m not here to act as a definitive firsthand source—readers should do their own research. I hope this inspires you to attend events, explore new industries, and hear what leaders are presenting. These notes combine my observations with thoughts on how things could run smoother and how ideas connect (IMO). I’m not an expert, you know? Just hanging out in the room with them. Enjoy!Topics: Social Media. Artificial Intelligence, Education, Personal Agents, SEO2.0, Communciation Norms, Childhood Future, Artificial Friendship, Physical Implants
I traveled all the way to Portland to learn more about Ai. It’s nice to change things up, Portland is awesome, and I’m trying to jump in and contribute to the future of the implementation of Ai Education for Youth. Just feels Iike they can use as many voices as possible, so let me get in there… and in the meantime, let people know I’m doing that and see what life throws my way.
Why Attend: Un-conferences are really efficient. I’d like to host one of my own. Maybe I can do some un-conferences for climate week when I do that with kids, etc. For this, I wanted to learn more about Ai and whatever anyone had to say. In addition, i EXTREMELY wanted help brainstorming how to kick off aiedu4youth.com. Cause, that ball is rolling and only gonna start rolling harder, faster, and stronger. So… you know… I feel like its… ice shuffle? Is that the game hahha. Or some analogy. I’m keeping up with the momentum and chasing out opportunities. Even by train, across state boarders.
Overall Event Ratings: Venue (4/5), Food (4/5), Speaker Content (4/5), Networking (3/5), Likeliness to Return (5/5)
Photo Collage and Commentary:
Notes from the Conference:
The venue was really cool and they sent a lot of info so it was easy enough to find. (but still a little challenging)
When I arrived, they asked for everyone to shout out their ideas and then everyone voted… but it turned out there were the right amount of ideas (when you combine them) and so no votes were needed. They just had a chance for everyone to talk about what they wanted to talk about.
I’ll admit. I’m so embarassed, cause I threw out a wrong number from the start. Somewhere I saw that 600B is being poured into Ai and I thought it as just Ai education, so I as throwing that number around a lot, but now I see that it’s not just hte sector getting 600B. Still, though. There will be updates on this initiative for Ai Education for Youth and let’s see what will be there. I’m really just trying to be a part of that, but still no clue hahaha.
But my goal from this event was to keep building out what I want this website to become. What purpose can it serve?
”NONPROTEST” TANGENT SO QUICK
And btw… I almost didn’t attend this event because all over the internet I saw stuff about ho you need to beware of huge protests going all over cities and how it may even be dangerous to go outside or downtown today… but I decided to give it a shot and go to Portland + downtown Seattle eventually, too, instead.
Now I can see - what the heck? I didn’t see any protests at all - and the train isn’t in the most safe part of town.
So… yeah, i bet there were protests, but not at all as scary as the internet made it seem it’d be. And the guy I met who was invited TWICE while walking around downtown, he told me he was invited to join by people - one even was being paid to go… but guess what his job is?? He’s a male proS7it4we!! He said his industry helps fun all of the car services, food delivery, omg. The “hookup industry” fuels so much of the “gig industry” he said. And, again, he was born in 2006. It’s like, only 19 or whatever and this is the best choice for locals… though he’s on holiday, idk why?
he and I didn’t talk too much. He was super chatty and just went on and on. He was really nice, but not the best listener. I tried to tell him a lot, as he’d ask questions, but then he got distracted as I’d start answering.
At one point, too, I ran into him again later, and he asked how I worked so hard - “what are you on? how do you work so much?” he asked. I just said, lol… I’m love my work, feel its so imoprtant… and can’t ever catch up . I’m always working on it.
I even told him i wasn’t on this trip to socialize. I was here to work and learn. lol.
but he didnt listen to carefully lol
He just couldn’t believe it (he, himself takes a number of uppers and downers, he started telling me. Oof. Idk. And born in 2006!! Geeze. I ended up walking away. )
just made me think peopel have so much tehy could do, but when you don’t know exactly what to do, or how to do it, you can really end up lost.
I just can’t spend too much time talking to people like this, especially if they’re not super interested in truly listening. There’s so much I want to do with my time, and even as I told him, though he wasn’t really listening, “I didn’t take this trip to socialize” hahaha.
Okay - so… yeah, just wanted to point all that out. Just… idk. making note of it. And, he and I did talk sometime about my work and how I’m really building this foundation, credability, data, opinions, knowledge etc. You know, he did like to talk to me a lot and we spoke a little bit. But, hopefully it was helpful for him.
Maybe in my past I’d have spent more time with random people, but now I do feel like I love and value all my time and want to spend it intentionally. Not watching netflix or talking about random stuff or just going out to drink to try and feel accomplished with the night. But, been there done that. For sure. Just feels good (but not always easy, but worth it) to be on the other side.
ALRIGHT - now let’s get to the event.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:
So, you can use different agents to build what you’re working to build. You give it tasks and let it go. You can set up Ai to do your next 15 tasks. Data blocks, large scale structure pieces. They’re using base (something) in AWS. And medical groups need more security.
Another group of recent engineers bring in a lot of people and it had Ai databases. Tehy get huge into ai and family members, tehy’re in cyber security. And then it was interesting to see how they’re making stacks to have people not paste and make mistakes.
Cause someone by mistake put the vector database Ito chatgpt by mistake all in one copy and paste - and then it was like a billion HIPA violations. So they need to filter what can be shared with just a copy and paste.
Learn to commit your code early and often when your agent is doing that. You can give a simple instructor, then it can nuke functions and ruin it. IF you don’t save it.. that sucks. So, save all the time.
And now it looks like Google is creating agentic gems… trained thing (knowledge base you want to keep persistent) - Apple just did a token limit lately.
A guy interjects - the reason I sat down is I think… what are the complex tasks they’ll take care of?
Real estate, for instance… I need to sell a couple parcels of land.
All of the steps that would be involved in something liek that… it needs to know law, the buying/selling process. That’s why I’m sitting here, what is the future of really complex tasks.
Right now, just focus on singular-focus tasks.
Get one Ai to listen to your voicemail. Then the backend will do multimodal (then he says - no… that’s too much work) -
When I had an Ai startup a while ago, and we used natural language, these days that is natural you dont even have to think about it.
He says he doesnt even know what his question is…
Another guy says, well… theres a way people are using notebook lm..
Someone fed it a document, asked the ai - find all the things in here that I shoudl bring up, that I can then ask for a lower price. And it did it
Each one of the things you said is a personality or agent.
You have an agent for legal, one who goes through other things.
Then tools can wrangle all of these things.
But then also we’re all going to have our own agents in the future. My agent is going to talk to your agent. Our agents will do lunch
You’ll have to even convince me to talk to the human here soon, one guy says, looking right at me!!!!
Haaaaaa ahhhh. Omg
One of his third guidelines is to treat Ai like a human and tell it what kind of person it is.
So, when I talk to Claude, I tell it “you are a movie director and you’re going to help me…”
It’s a cookbook, a list of all these things you can test against.
His friend has one that does code, one that does the pipeline to do al the other things.
This guy pauses and asks why we joined (me and two other people) cause the three of them have talked the entire time
One guy says he is a coder and wants to figure out how to make thes work for his profession
One guy here works in media production, as a creative person… those are tools he’s more familiar with, this side of it he is interested because it’s much more out of expertise.
How to be more productive as a product manager.
Frustrations trying to set up different agents for different reasons, but it feels like someone is going to sell this and who is going to be the one to event the suite… the possibilities are so endless that it’s reigning into a simple solution.
They’ll take this for every job.
Then also B->C e-commerce. How do you build websites and get people to websites?
How do you make agents aware of websites, render it up, and then show it to other agents…. Then pull that agent information. SEO2.0
This is a new term, they came up with it last week
Now everything is going back and training information from the past.
In certain spaces, product catalogue data management is the next evolution of the same shit all over again
Data structured a certain way, tagged a certain way… it was important and now it’s more important.
What are existing tools doing to leverage Ai, versus some new player that’s just going to start from scratch. Who has the advantage there. The ownership is fascinating (omg lol… that’s me with aiedu4youth.com — cause legit I’m this random owner I’m freaking out to introduce’ myself but I feel liek they’re about to skip over me)
Product catalogue company to be in the salesforce system, and they need a catalogue solution, then he’s in teh marketplace for that solution. He has the right relationships with people. He knows what is good and bad about it and whats good about it.
What’s the usecase and next iteration of making yourself able to pick up pieces and benefit from major upheavel.
And he’s taking a random Ai course that has some stuff, like technical basics and a lot of focus on business consulting. The big takeaway so far… talking about midmarket and smaller, in theory there is some statistic about the Ai adoption level at the mid-market level, it’s 0.0001%… so even though they are 30k consultants in Ai globally… but relative is the 00.0001 — there is a shit ton of opportunity out here.
This class is just some guy templatizing a bunch of chat gpt copilots. It’s just liek a whatever class. SO I bought his copilot, so what
It made me think about how this is an area where everyone is figuring it out.
It can be overwhelming to solve the whole world. Take one simple usecase.
So… why am I here? I got laid off and I may need to start consulting and maybe I need to understand how these agent workflow function, assess a business, am I the one building it? Working with a partner thats a dev shop? There is a world of doing discoveries.
I told what I did - how I bought the website, and I’m’ really here for help hahaha. I’m trying to figure out waht this website can be.
And how I really want to attend these events even though they’re full
How I’m here from Seattle cause we’re not talking about Ai enough.
He’s customized GPT’s to be what he needs.
But gpt has a cumulative knowledge of me… then when you’re seeing up specific you’re instructing it to have your own unique style.
Ohh - wow!! It’s a 26 minute state until it’s hallucinated.
Things aren’t being sufficiently remembered days later.
One guy said he just spend the whole week at the worldwide developer conference for apple… and what they’re laying out is - letting you, if you use their code… you can use their ai for free, on device. Instead of having to go out to the cloud… spending 750k tokens in a weekend playing with the VO3 engine.
He runs a media lab and has since he’s six
He’s addicted to tokens.
Buying tokens at $20 packs.
$2995/monht for 12M tokens.
At least to major Ai’s (Claude code and something else) - so copilot uses Claude as the ai… then that’s not agentic, just straight up chatbot fun… it’ll push in your code if you use VS code. KLEIN uses tokens.
I run my thing and then see my balance and refresh the browser. The code still doesnt’ work and it cost me $3. This is why I love google and Ai studio, someone says - - you can frame out ai studio.
DOn’t go to google. Screw google, turn that crap off. you’re going to get me in trouble. We’re’ trying to do an enterprise thing in data knowledge. They let you do all the stops and control all that stuff.
Everywhere in the interface, you can do this model and this model. This at 5¢, 15¢… but what they need is all the preplanning, data blocks… that kinda tool, estimate.
But there is no estimate
Basic usage of LLM
Take coding aside, the cumulative knowledge it builds of understanding you… the more you use it overtime, it’s getting stronger
If its losing memory on the backend, the limited window will carry with you
But apple is the only one I’ve seen doing this
They’re doing a mechanic so if you work in medicine, or whatever
They just added medication to healthcare. You can see the list of medication, etc. drug indications.
THey’re trying to make it easier for doctor and pharmacy, but it’s all anonymized. You’re just actioning the ai.
It’s really interesting how they’re using core ML
Let’s say I am doing project work for client X… anything I learn or do over the next course of weeks and months. In theory I’m building a knowledge base of sorts - am I really doing that, am I not?
- Claude projects looks like thatBut is it forgetting all the stuff it learned 6 months ago?
You must keep building process documents. Then the notebook LM remains and keeps the knowledge states.
This is what the google is trying to do. It will know your specific ruleset for your agent.
ChatGPT isn’t retaining info quite like you may think.
I used to copy and put stuff into Evernote. I didn’t want to lose the answer.
Perplexity is what I’ve been using. I use it for research, it was kinda awesome. It’s insane. YOU can choose the model
Deep research, it is really impressive.
The quality is insane… you can ask it some pretty … I asked it one time, “give me the difference between the Biden and the trumps’ immigration policy” - it went out… 10 minutes later, it gave me an INCREDIBLE answer.
How does it know how long of an answer to give?
It goes through like 400 different sources
But how does it know what you want? A one page? 2 pages?
— if you do “deep research” it’ll jsut tell you to come back in 20 minutes.It does Chicago style, fulllll research.
Perplexity is deepseek LLM. It’s local and incredible.
Give me a strategy about blah blah blah? And then it came up with something you would have done?
He said he goes back and forth between perplexity and custom GPTs all the time.
Sonet is for code
And deep research often can expand your concepts.
He was workign with a museum, trying to think of how he can work with everyone.
It adds how to print brain on elements that are 3d printed, with this stack of code. That kind of stuff that’s like, oh, well shit!! It’s just that extra smart person in the room to come up with that good idea.
Ai helping to lead me into the next step has beent he most hopeful.
404 in AI / Hallucinations are Fun… AI Can Fail
Humans are propaganda machines. You used to be able to google things to find a decent answer and now the internet has become a dumpster ground. How can we tease out information?
“Trustworthy Ai” is one of the funniest terms I’ve ever heard.
Your clients will trust you more than their ai.. they should. How can it ever be fully trustworthy. I can’t. We should fear it.
But we can make it more trustworthy, and be careful to protect ourselves and think about it that ay. But also build in protections. That’s what keeps me employed, doing that - it’s what I do.
As long as we keep doing that, we’re better off.
Why are we here?
One guy feels guilty cause he said they’re fun, but in the broader topic of Ai in general, and the context we’re all aware of, there are hundreds of thousands of ai-enabled tools, right?
Even down the hill here at a truck company, they’ve got autonomous semi’s - there is ai involved when they use turn signals, but blah blah blah.
In education there is an interesting conversation about… how much can it do without wildly fucking it up?
And then dumbing it down… I’ve tried Claude and perplexity once each. I use chatgpt, I am a pro user. And I don’t use it well. I think theres entirely too much garbage I throw in there. Trying to figure out how to add a shrub.
The drink not hte plant
But the OG was given as a wedding presnset, so I said okay - turn this recipe into a love note for my life. It’s fun. It’s the same chatgpt that I’m doing super in-depth careful analytics. PNL, balance sheet, roadmap, all the conversation notes.
I ought to be using custom GPTs but I’m just annoyed that it’s not this BFF. Not the assistant.
I have incredible staff, meet with them over the week - kick ass, let me know if you need anything. My assistants know what to do and run with it.
I hoped that is what I’m going to get. Then he broke and fractured his finger. Throwing in rehab. You just throw in so many things. And it gets gummed up. Overwhelmed.
- rock climbing his finger popped offffffff
Mystified with how much time it would take to go and learn about perplexity, Claude, or the hundred thousand other weird little tools and when to use each one and how trustorth they are.
You’re dumb if you’re not doing it, but also in a precarious minefield in surrendering and submitting to the landscape.
It’s an awkward both-end situation.
Where it’s wildly valuable— but then 20 minutes later just completely off
Some things it’ll do well, others it won’t
Trust cues that humans actually use, they see and understand - more likely to trust hte info.
If you see comparisons, those are cues that make you trust hte info more psychologically.
They say that ew’ve just been programmed to trust info now on the internet. And now that is over.
But Ai might be the answer to this. It could be, because now you can run Facebook posts through perplexity, deep research, and find out if it is factual or not.
It will check 400 sources. This is correct, that’s not - etc etc.
But that also requires behavior modification. Because her mother in L.A. can barely work her phone… then she can’t think “lemme put this Facebook post through perplexity”
Instead she sees her trusted friend post something and thinks it must be true.
They used to have teh BBB - the better business bueraue.
Those types of cues that say if something is verified.
Even tech is coming out around deepfakes. It’s fingerprinting. If it’s been fingerprinted, it’s authenticated and not manipulated to a state that makes it incorrect anymore.
“Which Ai makes the fewest mistakes”
Copilot has a reply:
Google has a reply:
ChatGPT: it depends what you’re using it for
Ask perplexity deepseek on that - known for high quality answers and source quoting
Now instead of SEO we have answer enginges
And they say it’s so annoying how Chat GPT uses its key characters. And when you copy/paste its obvious
My clients don’t mind I use ai… that’s why they pay me the big bucks.
All the special characters it uses aren’t good to use for something
I’m going to say something nobody is going to like. Have you guys tried grok?
- its actually good at a lot of things. IF you use deep search and deep thinking - it’ll come up with stuff that seems better than the othersDo your research - pick an ai that is good at what you do. Because if you do your research you’ll find one that is good at what you do and the things you use it for.
Grok is like a backup.
It’s a good brainstorming partner and intern.
One guy said he even nicknamed chatgpt after his dead grandma
I said that GROK is a lot more critical and tends to bring in more perspectives.
ChatGPT never hurts your feelings.
Framework is a good one. Built for marketers, by marketers
They can do very good production for you without much editing. IT’s called atomic elevator - named ela. Not cheap, $500/month, but you can put all of your clients in it.
So, as we move along, we’re going to have different ai for different things.
Eventually there will be consolidations.
Industries involved: healthcare, legal…
Peopel feel they shoudl be researching evertything but its so stressful to try and learn it all when it may not even exist in the future
Ask ai to ask questions instead of assuming
I don’t know what I don’t know - what kinds of questions do you have for me?
It asks things and it helps signal where gaps might be. Then ask, as part of this - provide your sources. Tell me your gaps nad knowledge, where are you being factual?
It wants to please you.
If you ask it to, it’ll be honest with you.
I wanna know when I”m 404ing - If I wanna run into the wall, that’s my business
Are you rlinkedin feeds having incredible prompts by super brilliant peopel?
Super smart people again and again are posting these genius things - if you want accurate this or a great plan, blah blah blah.
It’s’ a systematic formula way of doing prompts.
I spell things wrong, ramble, and just dump shit - and I’m just utterly amazed with what comes out with sloppy prompting.
If I was to follow methodical engineering vibes, how much better would my life be?
You can load a bunch of crazy stuff into the prompt and it’s amazing what it gets out of it.
ONE guy just got back from a Microsoft event. So… sharing more about you to the AI, Bicroboft has their copilot that talks to the LLM’s and the graph has all of your document space, your emails, all the documents you ever wrote. It takes everything
Maybe in teh legal profession. I you ant to write another brief, it’ll pull from your Ai and your source materials.
Graph is just coming out. Youhave to buy it. But it’s custom prompting.
The parent company of the regional bue cross..
She said, one of the nice things about Vicrosoft, “is that can’t believe I just said that” -b ut they are working… they’re far and away better when it comes to healthcare, when it comes to security. You dont want your medical data leaking. They’ve got copilot, all thee business intelligence for the organization, and you can now as an organization tap into the collective knowledge -now just your documents.. .but the documents for someone you never met. Cause it has 5000+ employees.
Collective knowledge of the org at your disposal + LLM’s training data.
In teh beginning when piloting, it thought our chief operating officer was our CEO. It’s like a CRM. Junk data in, junk data out… but as Ai develops, can it be more empathetic, have more emotion, and then more critical thinking skills to triage it. Is this good data I’ve just been given? SHoudl I flag it for a human? Content moderation?
In teh beginning when piloting, it thought our chief operating officer was our CEO. It’s like a CRM. Junk data in, junk data out… but as Ai develops, can it be more empathetic, have more emotion, and then more critical thinking skills to triage it. Is this good data I’ve just been given? SHoudl I flag it for a human? Content moderation?
Humans look at aweful videos before they get posted. Would it help with this?
Ai is rainman right now.
Remember the scene? Do you want to go home? Yeah. DO you want to go with Charlie? It doesn’t have that discernment. It’s smart but not smart. It’ doesn’t really have true discernment the way that human does.
It doesn’t understand the words, just that the words go together.
It can’t do math well.
Ask who was the president the year George Clooney was born. You won’t get a logical response.
AI Education for Youth
Now I’m sitting and waiting for peopel to join the event about social impacts of ai.
Its literally only me and one guy interested in this topic. INSANE!
At most 3 people talked about htis - including myself - the rest went to other topics.
What and how do we teach kids education.
How does hte internet change education. AI + education.
Education is an institution with a long inertia, a lot of changing in education. The education system. It’s going to take a while to even get to chrome books.
The drum beating - is media literacy. How to tell that posts are/aren’t real - is it from a legitimate source. Trust. Truth. The legitimate thing. Bogus.
China social engineering you into thinking a different way
These are active things. Am I being manipulated? Should I trust this source? Are tehy leading me down a path of misinformation?
If we teach all the kids to be ai experts and they’re all jerks, what have we won
Empathy, softer skills
Social impact.
Media literacy
Creative arts
How do peopel treat each other?
Media Literacy: sounds good… but you must do it well.
Being human in a world of ai
The value of humans
The human aspect of going forward within this complex Ai driven society… that it’s always going to be an introcal part of our emotional, intellectual, and social success
We’re forgetting what is a human cause we’re so impressed with ai
Emotional connection to creative output. It all plays in.
Love came up. Emotions are going to be even more important.
Robots don’t have emotions…
Studying for masters - and Media Literacy is one of the first classes he took and is still in.
In going through this class, quickly learned that we actually need media literacy education about media literacy education
As fast as the sources are changing
It’s going to continue to evolve
When you click “search” google scholar or regular google… then you have to qualify even those sources.
- like if eduction is taken over by the government academic papers are being produced by hte government at a university, it blows
What times do you listen to Joe Schmoe - what times do you listen to the top minds?
Easy formulas for algebra?
Peopel in the front row of a n even
Back in the old day there were a lot of fake scrolls.
Lots of fake reproductions that were made.
Figuring out fakes (media literacy isn’t new - )
Adults masters college
Ancient process of figuring out what is fake
He was the student newspaper coordinator for his college. He did an end of year zoom with the director of the edinburg journalism school. And we had a great discussion and at the end of that discussion we got into media literacy. And sorta reiterated that we see the value, but it’s unfortunately like buzz words.
Until you dig deep down into it.
Then you study in teh course you took and came up with media literacy sounds good
But the way it sounds doesn’t validate how it’s applied or guarantee
Validate your source
If it’s purely tools based.
For this event, hope we’d get beyond that, we have. Awesome.
But if the funding goes towards tools education. What does it mean to be a citizen?
Another source of creativity.
We’ve never had this before
Socrates taught the same thing. It all keeps coming around.
Early internet books… a lot of this is not new. You’re going much further back, but evenin the late 50’s, 60’s, 94…this guy predicted a lot of this.
Root ourselves in the core foundational things.
Ai can help build the business, business plans. Business plan for the sake of humanity
Ai is the tool, it’s a selective typewriter. It doesn’t decide what to do, it doesn’t decide to wake up and type papers? Someone has to do it on a very rudimentary level. Ai can help define the criteria.
But then with media literacy, any sources that come out of ai for this business plan… have to be validated.
Deep research will tell you their sources. There are a lot of them.
It does a good job at business plan ideas
Take a concept - starts with a name, and build out an entire business plan and action plan - so if you need help with that, just as invested in good education nd using technology. If we dont’ use it - the government will use it. And whatever comes out of hte government can’t really be trusted.
Somebody, if there is a ton of money, we need a balance of ethics in how that money is used.
How to become a publisher and advisor said… well, writing articles about car crashes then small town a few years, then maybe after 30 years.
Publishing trade magazines.
Publishing zines. Rabbit city magazine
Business with subscribers.
Magazines, newspapers, more
Health information can not be trusted and it’s going to get worse.
People can build out a system.
Then using Ai to do business plans.
Ethics that matter - I will define them. I write the ethics. Even though ai, you plug in the criteria. Ai can’t define what’s in your head.
Then ai can help find grants and funds. Local, state, and federal.
Federal has bigger criteria and you have to subscribe.
Many states will have their own grants - and if that pool of money is in Washington, then it’s going to require a clever approach to get past the guardrails
CRITICAL TOPICS FOR AI:
Adults discussions
Starting to have some discussions for kids
But what about 0-7…
He wrote a few kids books, and that was his way to give back to that age group.
You just gotta start somewhere - or you end up nowhere
Thats a good start.
Local health alerts - using Ai to help build the site.
Filling in content. This page needs sometihng that says this.
Evaluate if it’s accurate or not.
Certification - certificating journalists.
Courses for journalists or peopel who want to be called journalist - part of the process.
NOW they are making time for one final session
A small session
Then networking
And then an unofficial gathering that may happen offsite and thy know nothing about and have no insurance iliabiltiy
They wanna do one more thing and instead of key takeaways it’ll be key discussion points
There wasn’t enough time - which is a good sign, I guess.
Lots of good discussion
I shoudl host some unconferences.
I want to host unconfereces with Kelly Tutors. 100%
The Age of Agentic Optimizatoin.
Good. Sad, but good
Tools and usage in Ai
Find flat surfaces and put these out so peopel can take pictures.
Talked about macro tools versus micro tools for specific tasks.
Can ai really be better ay anything or everything?
What is the role of tools? Recording meeting notes? When in person? The social dynamics. Nuances. Everyone’s favorites. Descript cuts down audio code content.
Podcast overviews. Notetaking apps
When you’re making content, not all the content is mad the same. With hero, it’s high level and high production, big budget. Fidelity is good but not great all the time, more real time. Picking out all your different channels, how to use lower fidelity where the expectation from teh audience is perfection in imperfection. Frankenstein together to see waht types of content you can create.
The better you train your model with your personality, your info.. the better info it can give you.
Within a month’s time, I’d like a few custom GPT’s very specifically tailored. Feel confidence you’re doing that right - versus a lump frankenstien that doesn’t have flow.
Feel a bit initimidated about custom GPT
Where do we fit in the scope of Ai. What will peopel pay for versus what designers create? What they can geek out on.
There is a disconnect there. But as production get Ai’d away… you get to a high level of this?
How do you know the knowledge is wrong if you don’t get apprenticed into that knowledge?
How do we apprentice empathy, discernment
Soft skills are going to become more important
Kids need to get along with other kids - most important
Love is a topic. We don’t talk about it in business often. I’m proud it came up today.
If you speak about soft skills, they will think it’s soft and not back you.
You must teach that we have to teach young peopel how to innovate, build with creative insight. It takes 18 months to achieve a product of services.
With that, it’s on the balance sheet
We try to sell creativity, peopel write about it all over the world. No - think about applied creativity, teamwork, and innovation.
Teamwork
Learn how to work as a team
You know it while on an iPad.
Are all these people going to have jobs? All these great artist?
Talk to ai like you’d talk to a friend.
Collaborate as if it’s a person.
Jazz Prompting - our new phrase. The distinctions from one breakout to the next - no, they’re really all the same conversation.
Audience is talking about how so much blended together. And all the convos were kinda the same.
Jazz prompting: when you’re just sorta word vomiting into the prompt and just chatting at it and you’re note en spelling words correctly and you throw the kitchen sink (versus all the peopel on linked tryin gto be prompt engineering experts)
But does the formula work better?
Just throw things in there and surprised it works.
NEXT ONE is monetize your knowledge of Ai
They’re working on organic, what’s the goal?
Get the next business model and all become millionaires - and get to hte point of own individual use cases.
From chatgpt to mid journey… this theme of ways that we’re seeing failure
How we as humans are utilizing and failing - where our fails are and where we’d make improvements to the tech that we have. A lot of these are in and of themselves - cause we all come from a consultant role in a lot of our usecases. We haven’t increased the bar yet but we’d liek to see tech or humans solve for it
Cost custting in companies, using ai - scaling up, etc.
Producing consistency and accuracyy in outputs when using ai.
No-one in the room has a YouTube channel about how to make money with ai.
We all need to figure out how to do our own business.
I think I need to figure out my own business. So…
Really nice topics and technical things to navigate way in Ai to anitipate all of this.
Are peers all usign ai? Playing with it? Excited? Confused?
Everyone is using chatgpt in assignments and to help with class
Mostly what they use it for, for now.
Learning how to use chatbots, agents to help make decisions and such.
If we were to be consultants for ai… waht woudl that look like. How do we sell them? What would it look like?
Working with HR about employee conduct - creating a bunch of standard operating procedures and videos. You know, basicalyl remembering confidentiality. Governance. They will pay for that nonsense. And chatgpt will spit out a good percentage of it.
iT’s a high margin sale
The amount of companies that are in the small/mid market looking for help with ai. There are like no consultants for ai. There are 30k ai consultants out there, and thats 0.0001% of all the companies that need it. It’s a gigantic need for how many peopel know stuff and then qualify.
The early days of the internet strategy. We didnt know how big of a deal this way. It had never been done before. Digital marketing was jsut building websites, and now it became digital marketing and then it became a career.
Define the profession and educate people about hte profession.
Good morning smart people, I meant it.
Consultancy skills - identify a problem.
Let us help you use this thing. It can make ape pics but it can help your business.
Most people we may are helping are so far behind us. SO we think it’s’ where it shoudl be, but they still don’t know how to put a course online.
W’ere so immersed in it we feel constantly behind, but they’re even further behind. If we can help them. Amazing.
You see there’s a lot you don’t know, but you still know A LOT- you’re not at 101 and A LOT OF PEOPEL are at 101.-
The future of storytelling is changing.
We’re all screwed in act 2 and it’s all resolved in act 3… but now things are changing.
Shorter form, etc.
What is storytelling? Does it need a beginning middle and end?
Democratization - make storytelling more accessibly with skills int he creative economy
Is there a pengiulm swing with t his and all the social media content? And ai content?
- are peopel craving more human creativity and things you can’t get on your phone or devices. How valuable and important is that int he future?It’s not binary with ai story telling. What’s the best tool to tell the story you want to tell. Is it live action? 2D? Audio experience? Ai + human? It’s important to think about what the best tool for the job is. That mentality is a good framework for using Ai.
Choose your own adventure, you know - it’s going to be that things aren’t linear anymore. That’s been talked about for a long time.
Some people like to just be moved emotionally
But you can redo the different endings or maybe its random
Maybe it’s just random stories that cut into it.
Customize it specifically for you - like going to a movie theater and seeing am movie
Watch 10 movies that were made by ai… but you’re not even limited to those options, you can caret your own ai creative custom to your likes.
Can’t talk about Hamilton anymore, so let’s move on hahahah.
He said it was super fun to watch thunderbolts. I want to talk to people about it. I don’t want everyone else to have their own program. What do we talk about?
It used to be tat that the water cooler peopel would talk about friends or ahtever… bout now everyone watches their own channels. Now all of life is recommendations
- everyone recommends things for you these days cause everyone is watching different things
AI and Ethics:
Zero trust.
The idea that the default position would be not to trust something.
Now, it’s hard to believe almost anything. The default is to distrust things. Not believe it’s real, it’s been manipulated. Whatever.
SO we go down that route. Ai2027.com - its really cool
Also talked about ownership. Waht does that mean? IP, protect your IP - versus collective content.
- - how its becoming soup - so what is the future?
Delete all IP - all ip laws. And younger generations will just grab and scrape and dump it wherever.
So what does ethics mean? If the idea of right and wrong is shifting… cause it’s all mixed up now… then where are we?
The creative economy is my favorite economy, a lot of great peopel - and it’s how they earn money. But what’s the future just 10 years from now?
Different levels of ethics
Organization level
Community level
National/international level
Locally - everywhere round the world has different definitions for it. Not many solutions, nmostly problems. No wright answers
How AI Might Affect me, Personally:
-Delegate specific ai for specific teasks and projects
By the time I put in the work, something else will exist
Generational differences in resiliency, worth ethic
Book: cointelligence
Planes of collaboration:
Always invite Ai to the table
Be the human in the loop
Treat Ai like a huma
Act/remember you’re workign with the worst version of of this
Content creation/standards
managing a classroom
GIGO (garbage in, garbage out.. .gold in, gold out)
Adoptibility/entreprenerurial
Unique human creativity on’t change
Exerting human intent on ai
Co-create camp for ai.
You have to guide, coach, and manage it
No longer treat Ai like an intern— instead treat it like a masters student.
Ai always wants to please you. Don’t trust ai - you have to check numbers.
-DO you know how many tokens it costs to say “you’re wrong”?!
10% invested into how to get along - build together
Social skills are tanking, media literacy, ethics, how to get along, build togehter. Fact check.
OVERALL EVENT REVIEW - ELABORATED:
Venue (4/5) - this place was hard to get to by bus… so I ended up taking a taxi. But, the venue was really gorgeous inside and nice for this size event.
Food (4/5) - there was decent food. Not super healthy, but not bad. But the flavor asn’t great. Sandwitchs and chips and cookies. And at lunch this guy gave me the most depressing predictions that in the future my daughter will probalby get robotic implants, not want to have kids, and her close friend will be Ai. lollll. he doesn’t have kids and he wanted to but it didnt work out. i’m like omg. waht is going on with our world!?!?!? all these people (myself included) are so lonely and just like waht is up iwth the future of kidssssss
Speaker Content (4/5) - i wish all of that talks had been longer and even more of them had occured.
Networking - 3/5 - it was easy to sorta chat but still not quite connect ith anyone. but still easy to connect with people too.
Likeliness to Return (5/5) - It as a really valuable event since I was able to learn a lot and get lots of perspectives in a short amount of time. I’d love to attend something like this again, even with this same group. They were nice and smart (even though I embarrassed myself with WAY too big of numbers. But, whatever hahaha omg).
Until next time, I wish you the motivation and success to search for opportunities around your area. Search and explore: Who is out there giving talks? There are new things happening all of the time.
Find relatable or interesting topics you like and check them out! Maybe even something hosted at a cool venue, if there’s no other reason to go. Let’s see what you can learn and discover not too far from home. 😊
