1/16/2026 - Scheduling AI Salon DC Flyin Posts and Building Relationships with Legislators

Transcript

1. 0:00Champy, you ready? You ready for the action? Are you ready for the action? Champy, come here.
2. 0:17[music] >> [music]
3. 0:40[music] >> Is this place I can rest my forehead? [music] Gather my thoughts in sweet silence.
4. 0:56To [music] me is this place where the [singing] feelings are [music] running from an over exposure to violence.
5. 1:08This is a place [music] I can slowly [singing] face. The only one I truly can know. [music] These are tears [singing] from a long time ago.
6. 1:19Got these tears from a long time ago. I need to cry 30 years [singing] or so. These are tears from a long time [music] ago.
7. 1:44>> [music] >> Oh darling, oh darling, you say unto me, [music] where have you been [singing] all my life?
8. 2:02I have been swimming seven sad seas. [music] Old women have [singing] tossed me their life.
9. 2:18[music] [laughter] I like that dog. You ever heard the champ Shannon? You ever heard the champ
10. 2:32Shannon sing? [music] He makes you smile. >> [music] >> Happy Friday night. Date night.
11. 2:48[music] [music] [music] Woohoo.
12. 3:04>> [music] >> I didn't mean to cause you any sorrow.
13. 3:19[music] Didn't mean to cause you any pain. All I want time to see you laughing. [music] All I want to see you laughing [singing]
14. 3:34in that purple rain. Purple rain. Purple rain. Purple [singing] rain. Purple rain. Purple rain. Papa rain.
15. 3:56I [music] only want to see you laughing in that purple ring. >> Oh, good lord. Good lord. Good lord. Good lord. Good lord. Some fine
16. 4:11medicine. [clears throat] [laughter] Happy Friday. What is happening with everyone? Did I actually go live on
17. 4:20YouTube tonight? I did. Congratulations to me. Um, I'm so glad that you want to hear from me. [music]
18. 4:39[music] [music] >> [music]
19. 4:54[music] [music]
20. 5:10[music] [music] [music]
21. 5:29[singing] >> What do you think, champ? What's that song? What are you doing? You going to sing?
22. 5:48>> [music] >> Every time I see you now, get that look in my eyes.
23. 6:03Every time I see your mouth, I hear that smile. The early misty morning light that I heard the engine turning
24. 6:20[music] and the old [singing] for outside. [music] Will you believe in me again [singing] today?
25. 6:35You will convince me again [singing and music] today. Hey, you're leaving this hotel looking for someone else's golden
26. 6:45[singing and music] ring. Should I say so long? S wait. [music]
27. 6:59Hush now. Don't you cry. [singing and music] So long, Susanna. [singing] >> [music] >> Don't you cry for me. [singing]
28. 7:16[music] [music] [sighs] [music] You know what I noticed tonight?
29. 7:35>> [music] >> How long I've been doing this? Two and a half years.
30. 7:50And I probably I think I've been singing the the guitar the whole time. I've never looked at the camera when I sang. Never. [music]
31. 8:02or at glance like a koi little oops. The human mind is a fascinating thing, isn't it? [music]
32. 8:21[music] Like in my mind by not looking at the camera, am I somehow not singing? >> [laughter] >> I feel better already. Oh, thank you so
33. 8:34much. Happy to be here. Date night. Welcome. If if uh if you got a date, great. If I'm your date, awesome. Let's
34. 8:42have fun tonight. Friday night date night. Other night, otherwise known as just another day in the daily practice.
35. 8:49We're going to try to do some stuff. We're going to [music] maybe confront some stuff. We're going to maybe succeed. We're going to maybe
36. 8:57fail. [music] had a really nice talk today with someone who's going to be our speaker in uh on February 3rd for the AI Salon
37. 9:09Presents. Um I just saw a piece of work from an ex-creative director um [music] and I think I'm going to ask
38. 9:18him to be on the AI salon presents. So, [music] having a good a good connected day. [music] And I looked at the camera while I sang.
39. 9:30Good lord. But wonders never cease. [music] Are you talking about AI today? I may. I may. [laughter]
40. 9:42There's some new stuff from Open AI. Um, so, so one of the thing I'm going to, one of the things I'm going to do
41. 9:48tonight is I've got I've got some work to do on um creating some more posts for my Washington DC trip for the AI salon
42. 9:55hosting hosting a bunch of startups in DC next week. So, I got to get that I want to finish the thing I started last night.
43. 10:03Um, and that shouldn't take long. Like all the work's already done. It's it's literally setting up the the uh the posts. Um, [music]
44. 10:14and then I think I think I might head over to the to chat GPT and look at what's new. And then I saw I don't know an hour ago,
45. 10:22um, it looks like they they released Claude co-work to to Claude Pro subscribers. It was only available to
46. 10:29Max subscribers, which is like a 100red or 200 bucks a month. And uh, I didn't have that, but I do have Pro. I am
47. 10:37paying the 20 bucks a month. So, we'll see. >> [music] >> kind of an anime connoisseur 101. Yeah, th this channel is Listen, if you're if
48. 10:53you're neurospicy, um you might enjoy it here. uh if you don't mind neurospicy people and ADD and [music] the person
49. 11:08leading the conversation not to follow a a rigid agenda, then you might like it here. [laughter]
50. 11:22If you're here to check off the qualifications checkbox and get the get the course, probably not going to be for you. [music]
51. 11:30Um, here's the way I like to think about this channel now. I'm using this time for me personally as an extension of my
52. 11:38daily practice centered around AI. Um, it's something that I started uh doing because with within the AI salon, which
53. 11:48I'm the co-founder of and the co-host of, um, we launched the AI salon mastermind practice and weekly we meet
54. 11:57with anyone who's part of the AI salon mastermind. Anyone who wants to design their own practice, we meet once a week
55. 12:03to to do that. We're coming up on the end of our first cycle and it's been it's been a a profound experience for me
56. 12:13and I didn't even though I was leading it I did not start truly doing a daily practice uh until about two months in. So I've been doing
57. 12:22it for about 3 weeks now. [music] Um and it's it's really quite profound. So what does that look like? It's [music] the
58. 12:29difference between um just showing up and playing with AI, just kind of mindlessly meandering through the AI wonderland
59. 12:38um and coming in with intention and really thinking about who am I and what do I want and what are my values and um what do I want more of
60. 12:53and then how can I use AI to amplify that and that's tremendously exciting and it's tremendously powerful. But it's
61. 13:03also scarier than [ __ ] [laughter] cuz have you ever have you ever asked have you ever taken a moment to center
62. 13:10yourself and just ask the very simple question, what do I want more of? [music] It's a [ __ ] Tik Tok pin I follow
63. 13:19because you play guitar. Well, oh man, thank you. And I want to learn more about AI. Wow. Well, thank you very
64. 13:26much. I, you know, um, it's funny. I I define myself as a as a as a not good guitar player, as a tinkerer. [music]
65. 13:40But, you know, I've been I've been tinkering for a lot of years. So, so maybe there's something there. Thank
66. 13:45you. I appreciate that. And yeah, so so here's the here's the real trick with this channel. You'll notice in here there's some
67. 13:52people that are probably already chattering back and forth with each other, saying hello to each other, maybe
68. 13:57answering each other's questions. Um, they're what we call the irregulars [laughter] and and they're weird. They're not
69. 14:05weird, they're irregular. They're a self-proclaimed group. Um, they show up here night after night after night after
70. 14:13night. And why they do that is that this is a space where yes, I create this container and I am goofy and do some
71. 14:20things sometimes. Um, but this is really an opportunity for all of us to just be in the conversation about AI. So some
72. 14:28nights I might be full-on teaching stuff. Some nights I just might be useless in terms of giving you input,
73. 14:37but the space is still here. So you can use it to experiment with tools or center yourself and figure out what you
74. 14:45want to do or just have it as background noise. A lot of people use this instead of sleeping pills, which I highly
75. 14:51encourage. Just let the the sound of my meandering voice send you off to slumberland. Um, but just use it as a
76. 14:59space to be in the conversation because 2026 is about to get [ __ ] surreal. It's about to get wild. the tools. The last six months of 2025
77. 15:12let us know that that these things are getting seriously powerful and 2026 is I think when we start to hit the vertical
78. 15:20part of the acceleration curve. Um I don't think we've hit it yet. I think we're about to hit it and none of us not
79. 15:26one of us have ever been through that before. We don't know what that looks like. when when the AI tools start
80. 15:32getting good enough to start improving themselves, um, shit's going to get wild. Like the the the Claude Co-work thing that I just
81. 15:42talked about that that launched for Claude Pro users that um was written entirely 100% by Claude Opus 4.5.
82. 15:54um like all the lines of code, [music] you know. I'm sure there was an engineer there stewarding it, but that engineer
83. 16:02didn't write any of the code. I lost my job to AI. Ah, so now I'm trying to make money with AI. Good. >> You can make money with GPT.
84. 16:15>> Here's the one thing I can tell you. anyone that's telling you selling you these [ __ ] courses on how to make
85. 16:20money with chat GPT or whatever flavor of that it is these days um how they're making their money is taking your money
86. 16:29to tell you how to make money with chat GPT [laughter] I can promise you that that I know um I think you're in the right place so
87. 16:42Brandon if you'd be so kind pop up the uh the the URL for the AI salon. Um, the AI salon. I started the AI salon the
88. 16:51week chat GPT came out. I've this is my second time in the big technological revolution movie. Um, I was there for
89. 16:58the early days of the worldwide web uh when when the the worldwide web came onto the scene. I started one of the
90. 17:04first digital agencies, a company called agency.com. So, I have been through one of these technical revolutions before
91. 17:12and I can tell you that we're very early. You're not as late as you think you might be. Um, this one is way
92. 17:21bigger, way different, way more profound than the worldwide web was. And we know that that transformed everything. Um, so
93. 17:28I started the AI salon community the salon.ai. Um, I started that the week chat GPT came out. I also started this channel uh that
94. 17:40same week. What I knew from my experience back then was when you're in the birth of a new technological phase,
95. 17:52there's nowhere you can actually learn how to do it. It's not possible. And and with AI, it's even worse because it's changing every 3
96. 18:00weeks. I mean the worldwide web it had transformations but it was the same base technology the same the base technology
97. 18:08of the worldwide web was the hyperlink the ability to click on a hyperlink and jump from server to server that was the
98. 18:15core technological revolution everything else was just flower dressing around that AI is way more profound than that
99. 18:24way more profound so welcome um and join the AI salon if you go community.thesalon.ai. There's a little four-step welcome
100. 18:34thing. The second step is introduce yourself. So, jump in there and introduce yourself. Okay. And wake up someone else's Tik Tok live.
101. 18:45Oh, when you go to sleep to mine. Yeah, exactly. You're like, Kyle sounds weird. Oh, that's not Kyle. [laughter] Okay. So, kids,
102. 18:58where we're going to start tonight is I'm going to I'm going to go to um I'm going to go to the AI salon. [clears throat]
103. 19:14And here is my first post talking about Washington DC. So, if you go to the AI salon and um go to the salon
104. 19:24announcements, which I think is like the fifth one down or the the fourth one in community and event salon announcements,
105. 19:33um you'll see that we're taking the AI salon to DC. And so, what I'm what I've c what I created yesterday was a series
106. 19:41of posts for this weekend and next week when I'm in DC. And so we're going to pre uh populate all those posts tonight.
107. 19:50So I did three of them last night and one went live. And now we're going to do some more. Okay. So we're going to create an article
108. 20:06and we did Friday, Saturday, Sunday. So now I need to find not Sunday TC flying. I need to find Monday,
109. 20:36Wednesday. Tuesday. Okay. Monday the 19th. Here's the spine of the week. All right. And then the other thing I
110. 20:49had the the way this worked, I took the run of show of what's happening next week. I threw it into chat GPT. I told
111. 20:55it some things about the AI salon. It knows some things about the AI salon. And I had to just write posts. I haven't
112. 21:01read these posts. Um, they're not they're they're about 80% of the way there. So, what I'm doing here is
113. 21:10copying from chat GPT, going over here to Mighty Networks, and just literally pasting the crap in spine of the week. Quick preview. Okay,
114. 21:26so here's the spine of the week. If no one's If no one knows that we're going to DC, here's [clears throat and sighs]
115. 21:41the preview of our DC flyin. And I think Vicki, you'll know this is flyin. Uh,
116. 21:58got an apost got a dash in it. I think it does. Kishan de Milan, happy new year.
117. 22:16Kashan immediate you. Uh, please no advertising in the comments. Kishan on LinkedIn. Please don't do that. Please don't do
118. 22:27that. If you want to contribute to the community, contribute to the community. If you want to market to them, do that
119. 22:31somewhere else. [snorts] All right. Um, I'm going to say this is the week exclamation point.
120. 22:45Here's a quick preview of what we're con of what we're convening in DC and why it matters. Wednesday, January
121. 22:5721st, breakfast and walk on the Capitol, we're doing the very glamorous thing where adults eat eggs and then speedwalk together.
122. 23:06I guess that's fine. [laughter] I mean, I don't think I would write that, but it's not horrible. [laughter]
123. 23:14Capitol Hill briefing with the abundance institute open to hill staff. I'll give welcome remarks and then the round table will begin. Then
124. 23:30the round table moderated by the abundance institute
125. 23:45will begin. Okay. Welcome reception at Silver Lion the Rigs building. [clears throat] Daisy Thomas and I will give welcome
126. 23:59remarks. We'll have flying participants together in one room, plus friends and partners joining. That's fine. That's good.
127. 24:08Welcome. I'm just going to say welcome reception. We don't need to know where that is necessarily. Uh uh [clears throat] uh. All right.
128. 24:22[clears throat] Anybody have any questions? Like, why the hell would I watch this? Might be one. I get so damn excited
129. 24:33every day when I learn something new. Um, Eric Eric Trong. Um, yeah, it's you can absolutely, we call them Kevin Mallister moments.
130. 24:46That moment from Home Alone. You can have you can have one of those daily if you want. The the thing that's wild about AI
131. 24:54is how quickly you can normalize it. Like how quickly you can just normalize, oh yeah, we can just speak [ __ ] into
132. 25:04existence now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you know what's not? It's kind of a drag that that you know it codes
133. 25:11for a week straight and it made some mistakes. Wait, what? It coded for a week straight? [laughter] Did the thing it built actually work?
134. 25:21Yeah, but it had some bugs. But it worked. [laughter] Yeah, that happened [clears throat] this week. Um, [laughter]
135. 25:31yeah, we're in a we're in a wild time. We really are. It's [ __ ] far out. Um, let me Can I get rid of this?
136. 25:41I guess I can't. [clears throat] Okay. Morning prep. Tuesday morning prep. Congressional office meetings. roundt
137. 25:50Congressional AI task force and then White House and then I'm going to say um in parallel with the
138. 26:04roundt White House and commerce meetings including a confirmed Department of Commerce. We'll just call this briefing
139. 26:16because meeting is said twice. The goal isn't AI optimism. That's not right. The kind of policy. I'm just going to lose that.
140. 26:27Tomorrow I'll share what Daisy and I will be doing inside the flow of the day so you can see and follow along. Okay.
141. 26:34So, this is the preview of the week ahead. So, now we're going to add header media. Where did I put it? I think I put it in Google Drive.
142. 26:49Look at me being able to actually find something two nights in a row. That one's pretty cool. Yeah, I think
143. 27:01these ones that are more like people sitting around doing [ __ ] that'll be the ones for the week. I think this is a
144. 27:07good aspirational one. All right. So, let's add that in. Let's let Mighty Networks crash and we'll do it again. All right. [clears throat]
145. 27:23You get to upload it twice for convenience. [clears throat] Okay. Save that. Okay. Here's a quick Let's see.
146. 27:39Wednesday. I think we're going to do um this is a lighter day, but we are
147. 27:56co-hosting um a round table discussion
148. 28:11with AI founders. That is open to Capitol Hill staff
149. 28:30as a joint effort with the uh abundance institute. Shoot.
150. 28:46Then have some of the day to ourselves and a opening reception that night. I'll put fancy exclamation
151. 29:01point. [laughter] Fancy exclamation point. Okay. So that's Wednesday. Thursday. Um, this is the meat of the fly in. And when
152. 29:21black bar, sorry about that. Sorry about that. Carrying on rather cheerio pip pip. [snorts] Okay, this is the meat of the
153. 29:31flyin and when um this is the meat of flyin and when um the the real relationship building is done. So let me talk about this a little bit,
154. 29:44right? Relationship building happens. These meetings are not in response
155. 29:58to any specific bill, but rather a proactive way
156. 30:12for us to get our individual voices in front of
157. 30:28congressional senate and white house staff. So that
158. 30:44when there is some specific bill where they need input,
159. 31:01chances are high they will think of our org or our members. I think that's important to put some context in there.
160. 31:17I should mention homework. What is the homework? Did we talk about the homework? Just that there will be homework.
161. 31:26Producer Brandon's giving me notes. Oh, yeah. Okay, I will do that. Great. Thank you. Beautiful. Beautiful. Fantastic. Dare
162. 31:37producer Brandon. Yeah, producer Brandon, he, you know, he does the good work over there on the side. He's behind
163. 31:44the scenes. Didn't he don't get on camera a lot, you know, he's got he's got more of a, you know, radio face. No,
164. 31:52he doesn't. He's actually He's quite a pleasant man. [laughter] They're like making fun of him, though. Vibe Cinema 2025. Oh, yeah. Manners.
165. 32:03Thank you, Brandon. I might need to get some social [laughter] interactions back in my life. Oh, missed the shot collar moment. All
166. 32:12right, [snorts] cool. Um, beautiful. Let's see. So, let's make this not bold. Uh, what did I do? Let's make this not bold.
167. 32:27Let's make this not bold. Let's make these dates bigger. We'll call those heading twos. Yeah. Look at that. Nice,
168. 32:40right? Boom. Heading two. Look at this fancy [ __ ] Can we do this in color? I bet we can. No, we can't. Whatever.
169. 32:55All right. [clears throat] Uh, this is the meat of the flying. Okay. So, so this is for Monday. So, what I'm
170. 33:04going to do is I'm going to do schedule post. Boom. So, we're going to do Monday the 19th at 6:30 a.m. Mountain time
171. 33:17and that will make it 8:30 East Coast time. The other thing that I'm going to check to do, we're going to notify. So, that
172. 33:27thing is scheduled. So now if I go to my scheduled posts, I should have three in here. I do. Look. So here's the 17th. Here's the 18th.
173. 33:38Here's the 19th. They're all going to salon announcements. They all have notified turned on. They all have pretty pictures.
174. 33:48They have a nice pretty picture. He went down to the store. He got a nice tomato. [laughter] If if you're new here and you're
175. 34:04thinking, uh, he's a little leftist center, isn't he? Yeah, [laughter] I am. Sometimes it's really fun in here.
176. 34:18Sometimes at my expense. Uh, sometimes it's not fun in here. Also at my expense. Kyle [laughter] cracks himself
177. 34:26up. Yeah, I I I have learned over the years that what this channel really is is an opportunity for me to crack jokes that I then laugh at.
178. 34:36[laughter] And there's no explanation for why I'm laughing because it's not a joke in the traditional sense like something's
179. 34:44actually funny. It's just, you know, [ __ ] going on up here. Okay, fantastic. [snorts] Let's do another one. [laughter]
180. 34:58Oh, by the way, if you're new here also and you're still here, that's on you. Uh, but tomorrow when someone says,
181. 35:06"What did you do last night?" and you struggle to answer the question. You're like, "Uh, uh, I kind of uh watched a guy make some
182. 35:18social media posts. Why'd you do that?" I don't know. I don't. That's normal. That's a normal feeling. You if you're flumx tomorrow,
183. 35:29what happened? It's kind of like going on a blackout drunk bender. [laughter] Lie to them. What did you do last night?
184. 35:41I had a hot date. You know what? She was really into AI. We talked about AI all night. It was fantastic.
185. 35:48She was awesome. You going to see her again? Uh yeah, week nights. What? Never mind. I'm okay. [laughter]
186. 36:02[gasps] Oh god, I love entertaining myself. I am such a card. Such a card. Really hilarious sometimes what I do, [laughter]
187. 36:14wouldn't you say? [sighs] Wow. >> [clears throat] >> What Daisy and what day what Daisy and I are actually doing in this. This is a
188. 36:28shitty headline. Okay, so this is going to say not that. [clears throat] This is going to say and so it begins. And
189. 36:42so it begins. The DC good lord learn to type
190. 36:57the DC law on Tik Tok. Johnny D kind of hoping he would address one of our questions. So Johnny D, awesome point. Awesome
191. 37:06point. I occasionally do. And in fact, the one that I'm going to address right now is the one where you said you kind
192. 37:13of hope I would address some of your questions. So, it has been addressed. Um, if if anyone has any specific questions,
193. 37:26let me know and they'll pin it. And let's see. You haven't missed. Okay. So, if if there's if there's a really
194. 37:33specific question that you have, ask it. Um, I may choose to keep going down this path because part of part of how I'm using this time is to
195. 37:46Okay, how do I how do I put this? I spent two and a half years in this channel just [ __ ] around and and
196. 37:55[ __ ] around, just playing with [ __ ] answering questions, doing all that stuff. And what I realized is that's 10
197. 38:03hours a week of my time where all this energy was going out, but it wasn't necessarily advancing me or advancing my craft.
198. 38:15And so this year, I've shifted this into using this as part of my daily practice. And part of what a daily practice looks
199. 38:21like is it puts more intentionality in what you do. But some of that just looks like shitty work. So, if you have
200. 38:29specific questions, ask them. I will try to answer them as I can. Ah, I'd like to learn about Perplexity AI. Any experience? Um,
201. 38:42I have a decent amount of experience with Perplexity AI, but I haven't used it in good lord probably close to a year, nine months.
202. 38:58And the the reason for that is that and it's it's not a bad tool. It's a really good tool. Um all of the other large language models
203. 39:08with the exception of anything Meta is doing. Meta sort of fell off the planet with this stuff. But Google, Anthropic, Open AI, um isn't
204. 39:18there another one? Perplexity, but but all of the other ones have Manis, Genpark have all dramatically deepened their ability to
205. 39:30do research. Perplexity from the beginning was like this weird combination of a large language model
206. 39:36and a Google search. It was like good at research and it would package it up well and it would write it well. So if you
207. 39:43want to do research, Perplexity is still really good. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll hop over there right now. Um, and I will
208. 39:53just sort of play knowing perplexity. Um, knowing that I haven't played here in a while and so the interface is
209. 40:04likely different than what I remember and where stuff is. I know the last time I came here I tried to find something
210. 40:10specific and I could not. Spaces discover library. Okay,
211. 40:28so that's that must be deep research. Create files and apps. Turn your ideas into docs, slides, dashboards, and more.
212. 40:4250 queries remaining this month. Oh, that's kind of cool. All right. So, let's So, so let's try this. This is a
213. 40:49new feature. I think they could do this before, but they've elevated it. So, this means set the sources for the search.
214. 40:58So, one of the things you can do on perplexity is you can you can say I just want you to search Wikipedia or I just
215. 41:05want you to search my Google drive. In this case, you can connect your Google Drive. Um, and there's other connectors. So, so
216. 41:12that's a cool thing you can do. You can attach files, you can do dictation, you can talk to it. Plan latest news. Okay.
217. 41:20So, so it's just like chat GBT, but I think what we're going to do is I'm going to say make me um a presentation on the history of Legos
218. 41:36and the significance of the new smart brick. that was uh announced at CES 2026
219. 41:58and that I would argue Johnny D is a really shitty prompt presentation missing a T. By the way, if you're new
220. 42:09to AI, typos don't matter anymore. You can just these things just understand everything we do. You can you can have
221. 42:16you can have 20 typos in a sentence and it'll figure it out. I don't know how well I know how it does it, but it's it
222. 42:21still blows my mind that it does it. Okay. Um I would argue that that's a shitty prompt. One if you're if you're
223. 42:26new to this AI stuff, one of the one of the ways to get mediocre um hallucinationfilled answers is to give shitty generic
224. 42:37prompts. Perplexity is actually pretty good at taking a shitty prompt and doing some thinking through it. It's one of
225. 42:44the things they've always been good at. That's a place where I think the other models have caught up. So, that's why I
226. 42:49don't use this as much, but let's see what it does. All right. I will research Lego's history via web searches and a detailed
227. 42:56CES 2026 smart brick thing. Okay, there it's starting to code our presentation. Um, if if you want to learn uh you know,
228. 43:07coding, here's some HTML. I think it's writing some CSS CSS action right now. >> [laughter] >> You can watch it code. If you've never
229. 43:16seen one of these things code before, that's pretty cool. Pretty cool watching them do that. Um I can we close this? I assume we can
230. 43:25close this. Oh, look. Okay, let's see. Okay, that wrote the text. But Jesus,
231. 43:41that's bad. Where is the How do I Let me close that. Um the presentation uses um this presentation
232. 43:57has no research. It might Oh, no. It does 15 sources. So, there's 15 sources here. So, let's see. This presentation has no images or
233. 44:10visuals. for one of the most visually compelling um products
234. 44:25in history do better. Um you can yell at your LLMs. In fact, knowing what you want and guiding your LLM to give you better
235. 44:38answers is part of the magic of how you do it. What are your thoughts on probabilistic pattern predictions?
236. 44:46Um, I I don't know a lot about the math uh of this stuff. Um, so I don't like I I don't know. I I don't have a good answer for that.
237. 45:03I know that I know that we're living in a time now where a lot of people are interacting with AI expecting it to be probable probabilistic.
238. 45:14Um, and it's not. It's it's G. It's generative. It's generating this stuff based on probabilities of thousand
239. 45:22dimensional mathematical latent space. Um, and I think because it's so good at what it does, people think that it's
240. 45:30copying and pasting and it's more probabilistic than it is and they get really frustrated when it's when it's
241. 45:34not. Um, okay. This added some images. This is I find this really disappointing. Um, let me show you
242. 45:43something. Okay, we're gonna we're going to run down a quick rabbit hole here. Uh, and then I'm going to get back to my
243. 45:49work because because I have work to do. Okay, copy. We're gonna go to GenSpark. If you haven't been to GenSpark,
244. 46:00I'm gonna take the same prompt, GenpSpark AI, and I'm going to go to AI slides. And I'm going to paste in that
245. 46:16exactly as I did before. And I'm going to turn this thing loose. Um, there's no such thing as a quick rabbit hole. Shut up, source camp.
246. 46:29[laughter] Shut up. Shut up. Okay. Presentation. So, one of the things that you'll notice in GenSpark is it uses
247. 46:37tools. Using the tool presentation. So, it's setting up a presentation space using the tool deep thinking. It's doing
248. 46:43some research. Using the tool presentation, it created an outline or it's creating an outline. Um, so we'll
249. 46:52see what this does. We'll see if if this gives us better design and if it uses any images. It'll be fascinating to see.
250. 47:18[clears throat] You can I see I I see you're wanting to
251. 47:32do some some political advocacy stuff. It looks like Johnny D. I mean I like I would experiment with it. I would go to
252. 47:40like don't just rely on a single tool. Do it in Perplexity. See how well Perplexity researches it. Throw Chat GPT
253. 47:47in deep research mode. see how it does it. Do the same thing in Claude. Do the same thing in Gemini. Look at how all of
254. 47:53them do it. One of the one of the things we talk about in the AI salon is what we call the cycle of AI readiness. And the
255. 47:59first step of the cycle of AI readiness is play first. Second one is create excellence. The third one is generously
256. 48:05lead. So what that would look like in your case is you say, "Okay, I want to do some some advocacy or whatever. Um some politicking." Um
257. 48:14>> hey Kyle, that was on me. It's it's actually legal briefs. I I read his initial comment wrong. >> Oh. Oh, it's lot
258. 48:21>> trying to understand legal briefs. >> But even even the same thing even even with something like like legal briefs
259. 48:26like go play with different tools and see which one does better because what [sighs and gasps] I'm confident of right now is that any
260. 48:39of the major tools and I would consider perplexity one of the major tools. Any of the major tools are good enough. right now to probably
261. 48:48do 90% of what you want them to do, probably exceed your expectations. So, they're all really, really good. But
262. 48:54what's going to happen is you're going to find that, oh, Claude, the way Claude writes or the way it constructs
263. 49:00arguments or the way Gemini does what it does, that's how I think. There's going to be one of them that has a personality
264. 49:06that's more in line with who you are. So, the the most important thing is center yourself first. Don't worry which
265. 49:14tool. figure out what you want to do and start with that and then go play with a bunch of different tools and in doing
266. 49:20that you'll learn some things. You'll probably find one that does it really well and then you can sort of run down
267. 49:25that and that's where you move into that second stage of create excellence. That's where you're going to refine and
268. 49:30curate and do all that sort of happy horseshit. Um and then generously lead is about getting yourself in a community
269. 49:39like the AI salon and sharing what you're learning. Hey, I went to do this thing. Here's what I learned. here's
270. 49:44what it did. All that sort of stuff. So cool. All right. Fantastic. Um, so this is this is making a deck. It
271. 49:53it at least tried to do visuals here. So I think what I'm going to do is stop it and I'm going to say um your slides are boring.
272. 50:03There are incredible um Lego images you could be creating. Um, so let's not be lazy, shall we?
273. 50:18[laughter] [gasps] Let's see how it responds to that. Um, upgrade the deck visual impact by adding high quality Lego images. It's doing
274. 50:33image searches. So, boom. Look, it went and found a bunch of images. And this is the thing that Perplexity
275. 50:41used to be really good at. Perplexity used to be awesome at this. It just kind of automatically did it. So I don't know why it's not now.
276. 50:50And this didn't default to it either. But anyway, so I guess it's going to it'll go add [ __ ] into the into the
277. 50:57presentation. So we'll come back to that. Okay. Let me let me go get back to my work. Just Hey, Brandon, remind me to
278. 51:03come back to um Gen Spark. Look look at our Lego deck later. Later. And so it begins. Uh the DC fly in um
279. 51:18kicks off today exclamation point point. If you've ever wondered what hosting a flying looks like, it's basically equal parts
280. 51:27choreography, emok em emotional steiness, and making sure no one ends up in the wrong building. Here's what Daisy
281. 51:33Thomas and I will be. Here's where we'll be plugged in. Capital briefing. [clears throat] Capitol Hill briefing. I'm just going to say noon.
282. 51:46New Tik Tok question. Edom, when do you think AI is coming where I just tell it what to do? Okay, that's an awesome
283. 51:53question. I'll take a detour for this one. And I know I just took a detour for another one. And some of you might be
284. 51:59saying, "But Kyle, you're not doing your work. Is this really what a daily practice looks like?" And you're
285. 52:04correct. This is not what a daily practice looks like. Shut up. Um, it is my firm belief having been inside
286. 52:17this conversation for three years that 2026 is the first year that we we see the beginnings of that what you're asking. Last week,
287. 52:28I mean this week, today's Friday. This week, the CEO of Cursor, um, I forget his name, Steven something,
288. 52:37the CEO of Curser made a post that they they put GPT 5.2 Pro inside Cursor and they said, "Write me a web browser from scratch."
289. 52:53And it worked for a week straight. with no breaks, needed no human interaction for a week straight, and it um wrote more than three million
290. 53:04lines of code across thousands of files. It wrote its own rendering engine, and basically at the end of the week, they
291. 53:11had a functional web browser. It still had problems. It wasn't perfect, but um a week straight. Um, [clears throat]
292. 53:22also this past week there's there are these 1500 math problems called I don't know how to pronounce it. I think it's the
293. 53:31erdos problems that are basically unsolvable math problems by this mathematician from I don't know 19th century I don't
294. 53:40know sometime back I don't I don't know math so [laughter] so I'm not good with numbers um but three of them were solved by chat
295. 53:51GPT 5.2 2 Pro in three days. Three of them were solved and verified by the mathematicians that run that thing. 732,
296. 54:04728, and 729 or something like that. Um yesterday I had an idea for a marketing campaign for my company StoryVine
297. 54:19and I had about a 45 minute window between two meetings and I thought huh wonder how far I can get in 45 minutes.
298. 54:28I came up with a creative brief and about I don't know 50 different social media execu executed graphics
299. 54:37um that were on brand on message um and basically usable like I I launched that marketing campaign the same day I made it. Um
300. 54:50so so we're we're we're right on the cusp of that territory. Um, if the question is when are when are we going
301. 54:56to be able to just turn it loose and sit back and and let it go? Probably 3 years. But I think we see in 2026
302. 55:05someone's going to create an agentic tool that's so good that that [laughter] everyone goes, "Oh shit."
303. 55:14I think that's this year. Okay. Capital Hill briefing noon. Uh I'll open with welcome remarks to to the founders of the startups
304. 55:33that will be speaking to Congressional and Senate
305. 55:48staff. F the Abundance Institute. Uh oh, wait. This is Oh, this Okay, wait.
306. 56:03This is Wait, this one goes Oh, this one goes Tuesday. Oh, and so it begins. No, it doesn't. Kicks off tomorrow.
307. 56:13Let's see. And uh So, so this is completely wrong. Um, what happens tomorrow at the
308. 56:29DC fly in I had my days a little confused and twisted. [clears throat] [singing] If you ever wondered about hosting
309. 56:44fluence, basically go here's what? Let's see. Let's see. Here's what Daisy said. Okay. So, so this is just going to be um
310. 56:56today is a Damn it. Today is a travel day where
311. 57:11Daisy Thomas and the AI founders head to our
312. 57:26nation's capital [clears throat] other Then
313. 57:41hydrating. There's not a lot for us to do
314. 57:55though. We will probably grab a nice meal.
315. 58:09and connect. Okay, let's change this to heading two. Um, let's see. Here's what's
316. 58:25coming up tomorrow. Let's make this a heading three. >> [clears throat] >> M
317. 58:41capital briefing welcome reception evening capital briefing. Leave the discussion.
318. 59:14So that's that and then this change style heading two breakfast [clears throat] and meeting prep.
319. 59:35We all meet at a nice townhouse right near the right near Capitol Hill.
320. 59:50Might even be on Capitol Hill. uh and have breakfast and get our specific assignments for the day.
321. 1:00:09[sighs and gasps] [clears throat] John Potter will moderate round table with Congress
322. 1:00:33representatives.
323. 1:01:06>> [clears throat] >> Looks like y'all are having good conversations with one another. Fantastic. Do that. Amazing. Have a
324. 1:01:14wonderful trip. Thank you so much, Sawyer. I appreciate that. Sawyer Stash. Um, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful,
325. 1:01:22beautiful. Okay. meetings in congressional and Senate offices. >> Uh where >> Hey Kyle, >> um >> I hate to interrupt your regularly
326. 1:01:34scheduled broadcast of the AI learning lab, >> but I just happened to notice that we unexpectedly got 41 people on Twitter
327. 1:01:44out of nowhere. So figured we might want to pause and tell the good folks at home who we are and what we do here.
328. 1:01:50>> What the what the hell's going on? Well, hello there everyone who's [laughter] who who just popped in from Twitter. Uh
329. 1:01:56my name is Kyle Shannon. This is the AI learning lab. Um it's Friday night date night. Uh I go live five nights a week
330. 1:02:05uh talking about AI and life and other things like that. Um I treat these sessions as part of my AI my daily
331. 1:02:13practice where I'm learning and figuring out how to use AI. I've been doing this two and a half years now. Um, and the
332. 1:02:22whole purpose of this channel is to explore what's possible with AI, use AI to amplify ideas that I'm doing,
333. 1:02:30projects I'm working on, um, explore new things, answer questions. So, if anyone has questions, I'm happy to answer them.
334. 1:02:37Just pop them in the comments and they show up for me and for producer Brandon, who you just heard. Um, if you're not a
335. 1:02:45member of the AI salon, go check out community.thesalon.ai. Um, you land on a welcome page and it talks about our cycle of AI readiness
336. 1:02:55and there's a page there with our values on it. Um, it's a community of about 4,000 AI optimists who are all, um,
337. 1:03:04putting humans at the center of the conversation and using AI as an amplifier of our ideas. Uh, as opposed
338. 1:03:11to, you know, battling with AI or trying to compete against it. Uh, I think that's a losing cause. Um, I think
339. 1:03:19that's how a lot of people think about it that AI is this thing that we've got to beat somehow. We're not going to.
340. 1:03:26Um, if you flip your perspective and say that that the actual most important part of the um, interaction with AI comes
341. 1:03:35from us, that we're at the center, then what it forces you to do is be a bit more intentional about how you use AI
342. 1:03:43because you start to ask questions like, well, who am I? What do I value? Um, who's important to me? What are the what
343. 1:03:53are the ways I want to impact them? Right? What are the ways I might want to change things? Do I want to improve my
344. 1:03:58family? Do I want to make something really cool for my kid? Like a like producer Brandon uh spends a lot of time
345. 1:04:05using AI to make remarkable things for his children, books and songs and games. And he lets them kind of have this the
346. 1:04:13agency to imagine whatever it is they want to imagine and then he helps guide them through using AI to take their
347. 1:04:20ideas and bring them to life. And it's absolutely remarkable. And so it's a community of people who um we've got
348. 1:04:28this thing called the cycle of AI readiness which is play first, create excellence, and generously lead. You
349. 1:04:34just keep repeating that. And play first looks like just go play with AI without expectations. Just go play with AI.
350. 1:04:44And and in doing that, what you're going to discover is that AI can probably do something that you didn't even know was
351. 1:04:51possible, but that you're really excited about. You're like, "Oh, I that's amazing. I'm going to I'm going to run
352. 1:04:57down that rabbit hole." And then you'll go play with another one, and you'll run down that rabbit hole. And in doing that
353. 1:05:02playing, you'll start to figure out where the edges are of the technology and and what you can do with it. And
354. 1:05:08then you can start to do things like, huh, I've got this specific problem at work and now that I've seen how these
355. 1:05:13tools work, maybe I can solve that problem at work or maybe I can solve that problem with my family or the
356. 1:05:18community center or whatever it is. Doesn't matter. Take some problem and try to solve it with AI. And then
357. 1:05:25generously lead is about sharing what you're learning in the journey like being in the community of the AI salon.
358. 1:05:32We've got these things called LOL's, learn out louds, where you can sign up with Vicky Baptist or with Brandon. Uh
359. 1:05:38he can he can connect you with Vicki if she's not here tonight, but I think she is. Um where if you want to teach the
360. 1:05:45community something, you can just sign up for an hour and just teach them anything you want for an hour, two
361. 1:05:49hours, whatever, whatever your tolerance is for for teaching things. And so we're constantly challenging one another and
362. 1:05:56questioning one another and asking questions of one another and taking what we're learning and sharing that with
363. 1:06:01other people because what I can promise you is that there is no there's no physical way with our brains to keep up with the pace
364. 1:06:13of AI. It is by far accelerated past what you can keep up with. So there's no way you can actually learn it because
365. 1:06:20it's too vast, it's too big, and it's moving way too fast. But what you can do is you can be in a community of people
366. 1:06:26that are all curious about this stuff. And all of the people with all their different points of view are going to
367. 1:06:31use different pieces of the puzzle. And so you'll get to experience a lot more of what's possible. So I think being in
368. 1:06:37community as AI gets increasingly capable and it will take jobs being in a community and getting your head around what this stuff makes
369. 1:06:48possible and how you can use it to amplify your ideas. I think that's a survival mechanism. Vickiy's here. Where else would I be? [laughter]
370. 1:07:01That's awesome. Anyway, welcome. And so what I'm doing right now is next week the AI salon we're we're hosting uh a
371. 1:07:09Washington DC flyin where we've got I don't know 13 or 14 AI startup founders coming into DC. We're doing roundt
372. 1:07:19discussions. We're doing um talks on on Capitol Hill in the Senate and the White House. um and um just telling stories
373. 1:07:29about how we're all using AI and how it's changing things. Um, this is the third one that we've done. And what I've
374. 1:07:38learned in doing these is that the thing I thought was sort of the least I thought when I went to DC initially
375. 1:07:49that it was my job to sort of figure out the legislation and figure out the become a politician, right?
376. 1:07:58And that's not it. What I've what I've learned is that our legislators, the only thing they're hearing from their
377. 1:08:06constituents about AI for the most part is AI is evil. AI is going to kill us. It uses too much electricity. It's the
378. 1:08:12world's greatest plagiarism machine. It's just it's just all this negative like all these negative tropes coming at
379. 1:08:18them. And so they're in this very defensive position. they're in this very defensive posture like you know must protect against AI.
380. 1:08:29What we do in these flyins is we're coming in in a proactive way. We're not coming in there to say hey you need to
381. 1:08:36vote you know X Y or Z on this bill. We're coming in to say, "Hey, we're a group of founders and individuals that
382. 1:08:46are using AI to amplify our businesses, amplify ourselves, and what we can do." And here's the difference it made in our
383. 1:08:55lives. And here's the difference it made in the lives of the the people of the AI salon. And what what blows my mind is that
384. 1:09:11first it's like a sense of relief on the staffer's face. Like we're not coming there to kick their ass. We're like
385. 1:09:17there just to educate them and just say, "Hey, have you thought about the opportunity side of this AI thing and
386. 1:09:22the individuals and the small companies? Because I know you're worried about all the big companies, but you know, there's
387. 1:09:26a bunch of us out here trying to make this stuff work." Um, and the other thing is that those individual stories
388. 1:09:32make a real difference. It really opens up the eyes of these legislators to say, "Huh, we got to think about this
389. 1:09:37differently." So, it's very much a relationship building trip and and that's next week. So, I'm really excited about it. Okay.
390. 1:09:46[clears throat] YouTube comment. [laughter] Praise the Lord for AI. Yeah. And if anyone has any questions,
391. 1:09:59feel free to pop them in the chat. Uh, I'm just working on on some posts. 8 a.m. 2:30. Okay. meetings with
392. 1:10:06congressional and senate offices or AI startup founders will um speak with staff members about their experiences with AI and build
393. 1:10:23relationships [clears throat] and offer to be part of the conversation. um in the future. And that's what what
394. 1:10:40what this what this really is about is at some point some legislation is going to come in front of these legislators.
395. 1:10:49And they're going to um they're going to say, "I got to talk to someone who knows what they're doing."
396. 1:10:54Oh, you know what? Those people from the AI salon, they seem to know what they were doing. Let me let me reach out to
397. 1:10:59them. And they'll reach out to their staff and they'll go, "Who' we talk to from the AI salon?" Oh, you talk to
398. 1:11:04these two startup founders and the the guy that runs it. So, Tik Tok comment. Uh, let's see. AI is good if it's free
399. 1:11:14on the same level as govern. Yeah, Eden. Yes, but in bad hands, it will do more harm than any good. Well, Edom, listen.
400. 1:11:23There there is like any technology like right now with nonAI technology, there are bad actors and there are good
401. 1:11:31actors. There are black hat hackers and there are white hat hackers. That dynamic doesn't change with AI. And
402. 1:11:39yeah, I agree. There are people that can do bad things with AI, but there are also people that look for those people that
403. 1:11:47also have access to AI. What we're focused on here is not the theoretical what could happen if. Here's here's my philosophy on this stuff.
404. 1:12:00I don't know a lot of things in this world. The one thing that I am about 99.999% sure of is that AI is not going away. And so
405. 1:12:16if that's true, I and I could be wrong, but I have never in my life seen so much investment and so much acceleration
406. 1:12:25um and so much profound power delivered in a in a short amount of time as I have with AI. And you know, chat
407. 1:12:35GPT going from zero users to 800 million users in essentially 2 years, 2 and a half years is unprecedented.
408. 1:12:44This the speed of that adoption. So it's not going away. So if it's not going away, then we have two options. Two,
409. 1:12:52you can sit on the sidelines and go, "Bad [ __ ] could happen. That shouldn't happen." And not deal with it. Or you can deal with it.
410. 1:13:01And what dealing with it looks like in my opinion is learn as much as we can about what it actually is, not what the
411. 1:13:07tropes tell us. Learn how it works. Learn what it's good at. Learn what it's not good at. Learn how that how you can
412. 1:13:15take these tools and fill in gaps that you might have in your life. Like I don't have a good enough attention span to do coding.
413. 1:13:25I'm great conceptually, but the minute I get into the code, it makes my head [ __ ] explode and I hate it. So, I can
414. 1:13:31now take AI and I can fill in that gap. That's absolutely remarkable. But I would never know that that was
415. 1:13:40possible if I'm just sitting on the sidelines bitching about what might possibly happen. That's out of your control. It's out of
416. 1:13:48my control. What's in your control? What's in your control and what's in every one of our control on this call is
417. 1:13:55that we can say, "I'm going to take responsibility for me. I'm going to make sure that I maintain my agency as a human being
418. 1:14:04to understand what these tools make possible, understand who I am, what my values are, and the difference I want to make in the
419. 1:14:12world. And then I'm going to use these profoundly powerful tools at my discretion to do the [ __ ] I want to do.
420. 1:14:23That seems like a much better path to me than sitting on the sidelines and letting this thing slap you upside the
421. 1:14:29head because it's going to like it's coming whether we want it or not. So, this channel is about well, let's play
422. 1:14:37with what's in our control and let's think about it critically and let's talk about the [ __ ] that's not good and let's
423. 1:14:43talk about what the dangers are, but let's also look at what it makes possible and let's look at what we can
424. 1:14:49do in our lives with it. So preach reverend Kyle [laughter] worth mentioning chat GBT better memory. Oh okay. Um while I'm off on a tangent
425. 1:14:59here um if you want to go check out uh chat GPT especially if you're international if you're if you're um
426. 1:15:06from from elsewhere in the globe than the states. Um Chat GPT has a plan called the go plan which is $8 a month.
427. 1:15:14So, for $8 a month, you get a decent amount of the paid features and you get it so that they're not training on your
428. 1:15:21data, which that's an important thing. Um, that's now expanding globally. Um, they also just made some changes to
429. 1:15:31memory. They they improved memory. So, memory used to be able to sort of remember your past year or so of
430. 1:15:37conversations. It now apparently is your entire memory. Um, and it's apparently gotten better. So, I don't know. I
431. 1:15:44haven't played with it at all yet. And there are some new personality options and settings. I'm not going to go play
432. 1:15:49with them because maybe I'll do it next week. No, I'm going to be in DC next week. I don't know when I'm going to do
433. 1:15:54it. I'll I'll play with it and let you know at some point. Um, but it might be worth going to play with. The other
434. 1:15:59thing if you did not if you were not here for AI Festivus on December 26th and 27th we did this event called AI Festivus where we had 48
435. 1:16:11speakers. It was some ridiculous amount of speakers 42 or 48 speakers um 12 hours a day uh for two days talking
436. 1:16:20about AI and and what you can do with it and what they're doing with it and teaching things. We had a preview of a
437. 1:16:27musical that I wrote about AI. Um, if you want to um, see those sessions, you can get the deluxe replay bundle of
438. 1:16:37those sessions and a whole bunch of things that goes with them like the transcripts and notebook LM uh,
439. 1:16:45presentations and um, Jellypod podcasts of each presentation. There's all this stuff you get. So, if you go to aifestivist.com,
440. 1:16:54you can buy the replay bundle for 27 bucks. It's like the It's like the best the best deal. Uh it's the best deal the
441. 1:17:02side of the POS. [laughter] Did your Gen Spark finish? Let's go see. I asked I asked GenSpark to make me um a
442. 1:17:11Lego presentation. Did it do it? Is this it? Oh, let's see. What did it do?
443. 1:17:29Yeah, it did it. All right. View [clears throat] and export presentation view. So what I asked this is a presentation about
444. 1:17:4345 minutes ago. I went into GenSpark and I gave it a shitty prompt. I said, um, build me a presentation on the history of Legos.
445. 1:17:56Um, and and talk about the significance of the new smart brick that was announced at CES from wooden toys to connected
446. 1:18:04creativity. And then it made the first pass it made, it was just visually horrible. And I said, "Go find Lego
447. 1:18:10images and make it prettier." And so this is what it made. So I I have you and I are seeing this at the exact same time. Okay,
448. 1:18:22that looks nice. Nice start. Origins from wood to brick 1932. Kirk Olirk founds billand workshop. Lego name
449. 1:18:34officially adopted factory fire and reconstruction. Patent 1958 patent for studen tube coupling. Well, this is
450. 1:18:42cool. And look, the little mini figs behind the behind the the things. So, Duplo Technic minifigure 1980 Lego DACA
451. 1:18:53educational division 1998 Mindstorms video games era 2008 Lego Cuso. I don't even know what that is. Pilot program in
452. 1:19:03Japan allowing fans to submit designs for official sets. That's cool. LEGO Ideas, Community Scale, Connected Play
453. 1:19:122017, Lego Boost 2019, Powered Up 2019, Spike Prime, Hidden Side, Mindstorm Ends, the iconic robotics brand is retired. Huh?
454. 1:19:262026 CES reveal the Smart Brick. What is it? It's a unified screenfree intelligent core that brings physical
455. 1:19:33builds to life. Designed to merge coding, sensing, and play without complex app dependencies. That's so cool. What's it got? An
456. 1:19:45accelerometer, light sensing, sound sensor, speaker and synth, wireless charging, education, storytelling, accessibility,
457. 1:19:58platform, strategy, one brick, limitless worlds. Smart brick isn't just for toys. It's a universal interactive core. Risks and guard rails
458. 1:20:10adoption path from studs to systems. Only the best is good enough. H. There you go. That's it. Not bad.
459. 1:20:24It just went off and did that. And these are all HTML. You can see all the all the code of them here. Like every slide is an HTML design.
460. 1:20:34[clears throat] Wild. Wild. It's wild and wacky. Wild and wacky stuff. Okay. Finish your loop. Yeah, exactly. Okay. Meetings in
461. 1:20:45congressional and Senate offices. Okay. I'll also be with the group >> [clears throat] >> uh doing the White House commerce meetings.
462. 1:21:06I'll be with the group. [snorts] [gasps] This group make the round. That doesn't matter. [sighs] uh doing similar education and
463. 1:21:25Q&A sessions with White House staff. We're bringing builders. We're bringing nuance. We're building creators
464. 1:21:43and builders. We're bringing um authentic voices and we're bringing the AI salon uh we're bringing the [clears throat] AI salon
465. 1:22:00um human centered optomystic optoistic ethos into rooms.
466. 1:22:15that usually don't get any of it. Um, our stories matter a lot and
467. 1:22:33this trip will have an impact. Uh, [clears throat] I'll sign my name. because this is from me. Okay. So, this
468. 1:22:48is for Tuesday. I think that's good. I'll go I'll go proofread these before they go. So, we're going to do 6:30 a.m.
469. 1:23:03on Tuesday the 20th. Schedule post notify everyone. Okay. Beautiful. That's fantastic, Bob. Really good. This is really good stuff.
470. 1:23:20It's solid. It's really good. It's really solid stuff. Fantastic. All right. So, back here and we're in
471. 1:23:33salon announcements and we're going to create an article. Astroade. Umhuh. [sighs] Uh uh. Maybe I guess I could finish these
472. 1:23:47tomorrow. [clears throat] What time is it? All right. You want to end with some fun? [laughter] I've been This has been a a nonfocused day.
473. 1:24:02Today is the day. This has been a non-focused practice day. That's okay. Um, Mimi and I were playing hookie for a
474. 1:24:14bit. Sorry. You You two scoff laws. You You know You know you're going to get demerits, right? You can't get too
475. 1:24:23many AI learning lab demerits. Bad things happen. Bad things happen. [snorts] You can't be late. You can't play hookie. You can't play
476. 1:24:33hookie. [laughter] They were probably off building some cool [ __ ] Okay. All right. D Fly Day. Here's what we'll be focused on start to
477. 1:24:43finish. Helping founders show up as humans. Um using AI to make a [clears throat] difference
478. 1:24:58for themselves and their companies. Let's say for themselves,
479. 1:25:12their communities and [clears throat] their companies
480. 1:25:31make this error. They're trying to make and trying let's see not as not as lobbyists not as hype machines people bu
481. 1:25:38building real products seeing real tradeoffs and trying
482. 1:25:53and leveraging [clears throat] AI I as a regular part of their
483. 1:26:10daily work and practices. Oh, okay. That's cool. That's a good idea. All right. So, we'll come back to
484. 1:26:24this. All right. So, we're going to go we're going to go play a little. Where I'm going to go is this thing
485. 1:26:32called Astrocade, which if if you haven't seen it, it's kind of cool. a astrocade.com. So, here's all these video games,
486. 1:26:47right? Just like, you know, like any old sort of, you know, crappy uh what what do they call casual games? Casual gaming.
487. 1:26:58And so every one of these games, let's see, play it. Hit play. Level one. Uh, I guess I have to Okay, I sort of see what's happening here.
488. 1:27:11I got to I got to mine diamonds and kill the zombies. Oh, choose skill. Uh, we'll go that one. [laughter]
489. 1:27:28All right. So, anyway, so that's a game and I maybe it's got sound, maybe it doesn't. I don't hear anything right
490. 1:27:33now, but this is just like lovable where not only can you play the games, you can go make your own. All right, so we're
491. 1:27:40going to say um I want a game like um uh what's the one called Angry Birds? on a game like Angry Birds,
492. 1:27:56[laughter] but where you shoot the furry animals into someone
493. 1:28:15else's. Um, let's see. board game [laughter] and mess it up.
494. 1:28:31[laughter] All right, we'll let that it might ask me some questions here. So, one one of my favorite ways to test AI
495. 1:28:40things like this is give it really stupid prompts and see how it does it. Furry fiasco. Launch an adorable
496. 1:28:47physicsdefying furry creature. Wait. Launch adorable physicsdefying furry creatures from a slingshot onto an
497. 1:28:55opponent's digital board game, aiming to knock over their pieces and cause maximum mayhem. Strategically choose
498. 1:29:02your angle. Okay. Hilarious physics. A variety of fun. Here's a mockup. Um, sign in to create. Oh, damn it. Uh, sign
499. 1:29:11in with Google. We'll do single sign in. This is free, by the way. Did it remember? Okay, this is a good
500. 1:29:26thing. One of the thing, one of my pet peeves is these companies will do this where you start a process and then
501. 1:29:32they're like, "Oh, sign in to to continue and you sign in and it remembers all the [ __ ] you, it forgets
502. 1:29:37all the [ __ ] you typed in." Uh, this didn't do that. So, that's a good sign. Okay. So, this is now going to make our
503. 1:29:43game. We'll come back to this. So, this is vibe coding where I gave it a shitty prompt about a shitty game idea and
504. 1:29:50let's see if it makes this a playable game. Okay, let me go back and finish my uh this is my Wednesday uh post.
505. 1:29:58Today is the day. All right, DC flyin day. Um here's what I'll be focused on start to finish, helping founders show
506. 1:30:05up as humans using AI and make a difference for themselves, their communities, and their companies. not as
507. 1:30:09lobbyists, not as hype machines, but as people building real products, seeing real trade-offs, and leveraging AI as a
508. 1:30:15regular part of their daily work and practices. Um, people don't need to know the times we're doing [ __ ] Breakfast.
509. 1:30:27Breakfast at Junction Beastro. I'm just going to say breakfast. Oops.
510. 1:30:47Capitol Hill briefing. We'll just say at noon briefing and round table.
511. 1:31:04Oh no, this is uh this is not a round table. This is a Capitol Hill briefing and moderated discussion. I'll give opening remarks.
512. 1:31:21The Abundance Institute will lead the discussion and we'll open it up to the Hill staff to Capitol Hill staff. Okay. Welcome reception.
513. 1:31:37That's silver lion. I don't know. I think I'll just say welcome reception in evening. Daisy and I welcome everyone. Connect
514. 1:31:48the dots across the group and set the tone for Thursday's meetings. The AI salon doesn't expect to be in the
515. 1:31:54conversation. We exist to make the conversation better. That's horshit. We're going to get rid of that. All
516. 1:32:11right. Um [clears throat] um this first day is where we
517. 1:32:28really get to know one another and talk about our past experiences with this kind of work. And
518. 1:32:44um relax before an intense day coming up.
519. 1:33:04No rest for the wicked. exclamation point. Kyle Shannon. Okay, there's that. And then we're going to go schedule post.
520. 1:33:18Oops, I just hit save drafts. So, we're going to go to drafts. We're going to go edit. Wait, [clears throat]
521. 1:33:28we're going to go in here. We got to add a picture to this one. So, this is the opening day one. So, we'll do
522. 1:33:42Did I use that one yet? I think I did. No, I used that one. All right, I'll use that one.
523. 1:33:58I don't think I've used this one. If I have, we'll have to go change it. All right. Save. Today is the day. Um, today.
524. 1:34:16Can I edit this stuff? Yes. Today [clears throat] it begins.
525. 1:34:34the DC flyin. That is [laughter] all right. Schedule post. So, this is going to be on Tuesday, no, Wednesday
526. 1:34:5021st. We're going to do this at 6:30 a.m. Schedule post. We're going to notify people. Beautiful. Fantastic. Fantastic. Let's go look at our
527. 1:35:04scheduled posts. Oh, I didn't I didn't do a graphic for this one. That's bad. Edit. [laughter] And nobody yelled at me. Nobody's paying
528. 1:35:15attention because we're not paying attention to you, Kyle. This is relatively uh I would it be rude for me to say boring? [laughter]
529. 1:35:27We'll do that one. That one's That one's pretty funny. Okay, network error. Thanks, Mighty Networks.
530. 1:35:43This is This is really one of the better experiences I've had using really expensive cloud-based software. Okay, beautiful. Fantastic.
531. 1:35:57Save. Wait. Members opted into receiving a daily. No. Reschedu post. Schedule posts. Notify. Okay.
532. 1:36:13So, yes. So, we've got that graphic. We've got that graphic. We got that graphic. We got that one. So, it begins.
533. 1:36:20We got the little constellations. Beautiful. And then we got one more. Let's just get it done. Let's knock it
534. 1:36:26out. and then we're [ __ ] done. All right, let's see. This is where it gets real. Okay, fantastic. I'm going to copy this. We're going to
535. 1:36:42go over to the AI salon. I don't know if you've ever been to the AI salon, but if you go, it's an awesome
536. 1:36:48place. There's a awesome people in here. They're really good. They're really smart. They're super sweet. You should
537. 1:36:55see the people in here. They're just awesome. I don't know if you've been in here, but you should be in here. Why are you not in here?
538. 1:37:03This is where it gets real. I wonder where everyone from Twitter came from. Do you ever figure that out, producer Brandon? [clears throat]
539. 1:37:17Today is the full-on work day. Sure are a quiet bunch. Well, the thing about Twitter, the thing about Twitter is that when
540. 1:37:29they add to our view count, if they leave, it doesn't reduce the view count by one. So, it just keeps ticking up.
541. 1:37:37So, part of why they might be quiet is they might not be here. They might have stumbled in here and gone, "Who's this guy?" Nah. [laughter]
542. 1:37:54>> [laughter] >> All right. All right. All right. All right. All right. Robert Rossy's here. Okay. Today's the this kind of day where
543. 1:38:04AI policy stops being a headline and becomes a hallway conversation. A small conference room with staffer with three
544. 1:38:10minutes between boats and a founder trying to explain without turning it into theater. Ah.
545. 1:39:22And why ledge is slators must balance
546. 1:39:38up must balance um pro protect protecting us from risk
547. 1:39:53with access to opportunities AI provides to
548. 1:40:08startups and individuals. Okay. Um We can do this like that.
549. 1:40:40And
550. 1:41:45I'm going to come back and edit this one. I'm not happy with this one, but I'm too tired tonight to edit it. But
551. 1:41:50let me go find a picture for it. I think it's that one. Yeah, that's the one.
552. 1:42:08Okay. Oh, god damn it. Come on, man. Third time's the charm. There we go. All right,
553. 1:42:24we're going to schedule this bad boy for Wednesday. No, this is Thursday at 6:30 a.m. [clears throat]
554. 1:42:43notify. And then we should see if we go to scheduled posts, we've got tomorrow's Saturday. So, there's Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,
555. 1:42:58Wednesday, Thursday. Beautiful. That is done. It's I've I've got a couple of loops to close. Like, I've got to go edit. Some of these have
556. 1:43:08just got shitty AI writing in them that I got to go take out and fix. Um, but they're not horrible. Like, if they go
557. 1:43:16out as is, you know, I can I can live with it. But they're not going to. Um, but they're scheduled. They're in loop closed.
558. 1:43:25Beautiful. Okay. Now, while I'm here, where did we put that community feed, Brandon? Yes. Okay. So, here's what I'd like. It's Oh, it's
559. 1:43:41salon announcements. [clears throat] I don't think so. No, it's community feed. Hello saloners. As you know, we might be
560. 1:43:57going there. Please share a personal story of how AI has changed your life. Okay, so go to the AI salon. There's 22 of you in here.
561. 1:44:06There's some amount of you over on on the YouTube side and the Twitter side. Go to the AI salon in the community
562. 1:44:11feed. The first post there says, "Hey AI saloners, as you may know, Daisy Thomas and I are hosting a Washington DC flyin.
563. 1:44:19What I'd love to do is to have you go in here and share your story of how AI has changed your life in some way. Okay? So,
564. 1:44:28made a difference for you and your kids, made a difference at work. You didn't get laid off because you have been, you
565. 1:44:33know, generously leading with this AI stuff. Um, do me a favor. [clears throat] Take this as weekend homework as, um,
566. 1:44:43you know, keep up with with the posts that I've scheduled. Um, you know, I will I will also be posting them on
567. 1:44:50LinkedIn. Um, and uh and and just, you know, wish us luck in DC next week, but over the weekend, if you could share
568. 1:44:58your story next week for the live because I'm going to be in DC. It's probably going to be a very disrupted
569. 1:45:05week. I'll be going live Monday night. I'll be traveling Tuesday night. I've got a reception Wednesday night.
570. 1:45:17So, I may or may not go after that. Then Thursday is the big heavy day and then I'm traveling Friday. I might be live
571. 1:45:26Friday, but I might not. I don't know when I get in. So, um so next week's going to be very disjointed. So, [laughter]
572. 1:45:33this is this is what you get. Uh I'll see I'll see you Monday, but everyone have a good weekend and uh I I hope you
573. 1:45:41have a have a good one. All right. Best of times. Great. Hey, wait. Don't leave. >> Don't leave. Okay. >> Astro. >> Oh, >> see your game.
574. 1:45:50>> Astroade. Let's see. Oops. It looks like there's a mistake. Fix it. [laughter] Is it fixing it? All right. [clears throat]
575. 1:46:05Thank you for that. I totally would have abandoned it. [laughter]
576. 1:46:20All right, retry next level. It's not working. Um, I can't shoot anything. The pieces just fall. Tick that
577. 1:46:37question. the Ace Wheelie. Got any tips on how to get around Claude's message limits? I hate waiting. No, I don't. Listen, um,
578. 1:46:47all of these tools have have their foibless. CL Anthropic, I don't know what the [ __ ] is going on with Anthropic. Like, it's
579. 1:46:56it's clearly just a cost thing. They're not burning through money as quick as Open AI is. They haven't raised as much.
580. 1:47:04So, I think it's just their way of of, you know, surviving. Um, but it's really if like what I hear from people is they
581. 1:47:12love Claude. They love Claude from for coding. They love Claude for writing and they're absolutely [ __ ] frustrated
582. 1:47:19with the with the rate limits on Claude. I don't know of a good answer to it. You can up your subscription to the max
583. 1:47:27subscription, but I think even that one [ __ ] rate limits out. So, got nothing for you. [laughter] I got nothing. Kyle, you need either
584. 1:47:39metag glasses or a GoPro to let us go to DC with you. Yeah, I really should I really should get some sort of live
585. 1:47:45streaming glasses. Shouldn't I get get tackled by by security and all these bellies? Are are those glass those glass
586. 1:47:55have cameras in them? Our sensors are detecting there's some signals coming out of your head, sir. [laughter]
587. 1:48:04Oh man, I split the work with chat GPT and claude. That's the only way I know to do it is just, you know, use chat GPT
588. 1:48:13for organizing tasks or basic tasks and then, you know, limit your use over in Claude. Uh, I don't have a good answer
589. 1:48:21for that one. That's a that's a that's just that's just shitty shitty management on their part because there's
590. 1:48:27a lot of complaints about that that I hear. Oh, Cam's watching. Hey, Cam. How you doing? Cam Ken from Cleveland. Um, I
591. 1:48:40know you you checked in. Checked in. Um, good. Well, good to see you and and I'm, you know, I'm glad you're here. I hope
592. 1:48:46you do well and uh yeah, I'll be in DC next week, so um it's going to be a little disjointed here, but you know,
593. 1:48:54check in on the salon um and let us know how things are going. Yeah, I know. I know, Joy. Um, yeah. I hope it I hope
594. 1:49:02everything goes really well. Really well. All right, everybody. I'm out of here. Have a fantastic weekend. Please
595. 1:49:08go share your story of AI impact over in the AI salon. That would be great if you did that