12/23/2025 - A Detailed Review of the AI Festivus Schedule and Essential Education Sessions

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1. 0:01Come on, buddy. >> Did Michael also tell you to always use gum in your mouth while you're on live? [laughter] [music]
2. 0:45Hello. [music]
3. 1:02[music] Down.
4. 1:23>> [music]
5. 1:48[clears throat] >> Every time I see it now, get that look in mine. Every time I see your mouth, I [singing] hear that smile.
6. 2:06The early misty [music and singing] morning that I felt the engine [music] [music]
7. 2:31[singing and music] today leaving this someone [singing] else golden ring. [music]
8. 2:52Do I have my audio settings wrong? Maybe I have my audio settings wrong. Vicky Bap taste. Maybe I turned on noise cancellation.
9. 3:00Hang on. Let me let me check. Just came here to say the same thing. Okay, fine. Audio. Um, echo cancellation. Reduce
10. 3:10background noise. There's your problem. How's this? Every time I see you now, get [singing] that look in mine. [music]
11. 3:22Every time I see your mouth, I feel that smile. That should be better in the early [singing] misty morning. [music]
12. 3:36You know, we're professionals around here. We know how to troubleshoot problems. You got spotty audio, you got
13. 3:41the wrong settings. You go in, you fix them, you get moving, you go back to your song, you go back to singing, boom,
14. 3:46professional. You understand what I'm saying? Mhm. Who needs a producer when you have Vicki? [music] Yeah, I was on I was on some something
15. 4:01or other and we used Streamyard and we were having audio issues the other way. So, I had to turn on echo cancellation
16. 4:09or not echo but background noise champ. You going to sing to this? You like this song, don't you?
17. 4:28Sitting in this lonely town. [music] Wonder when things are going to change. Dream [music] my life [singing] away.
18. 4:40Seems these dreams have turned to a bunch of dust clouds. [music] Get my nerve up, but my past is pulling [singing] me down.
19. 4:53wondering how [singing] long this [music] black sheep don't stick around. [music] Somebody told me once before, he said,
20. 5:05"You can never go home [singing and music] again. Won't you leave?" said things to steer [singing and music] me away. Yeah. From
21. 5:15the truth of who I am and what I believe. So I thanked him for two cents with a handshake and some sympathy. Yeah. [singing and music]
22. 5:25Packed up my blue jeans, headed for this big prize of my freedom. Bye-bye. Champion is not background noise. I
23. 5:40would beg to differ. [laughter] Champy. Champy is the lead singer. Champy is the lead singer. They come here for Champ,
24. 5:55right, Champy? His tail's wagging. [music] He knows we're talking about him. Do you know we're talking about you, champ? Yeah. [music]
25. 6:08[music] [music]
26. 6:26Standing between [music] you and a hard place is insane. >> [music] >> Standing too near [singing] you in a [music] fire makes it clear.
27. 6:43You're trouble to [music] me. Real trouble. [singing] Can't you see? [music] Leaning in close. [music]
28. 6:58Smell of your perfume scares me most. >> [music] >> Leaning away feels stronger [singing] every day.
29. 7:12[music] You're trouble to me. [music] Real trouble. Can't [singing] you see? [music]
30. 7:28OH, GOOD GLORY. GOOD PEOPLE. What is happening? Happy. Can we fix the camera? What's broken about it? What What are we
31. 7:40trying to fix? Trying to lean it down a little. This like that. Is that it? [music] Oh, pull it up. I see what's going on.
32. 7:50There you go. How's that for commenting? These Tik Tockers, let me tell you something. They are a very demanding
33. 7:58bunch. You get like two seconds to have something not quite right for their little party over there and they're all
34. 8:05like, "Uh, excuse me. Excuse me. Excuse me, Mr. Shannon. Mr. Shannon, Mr. Shannon, we're having difficulty reading
35. 8:12some of the comments." Yes. Yes. We're we're we're a very vocal group. We're a [laughter] very vocal minority. [music]
36. 8:28Uh, what's that? I was sent the AI version of this song by Silverf Fox. [music] I would really love to have this song, Kyle. [music]
37. 8:42I published I published uh Trouble. I did I did I do two versions of it? I think I did two versions of it that I
38. 8:51published. Um, let me go let me go see tabs. Yep. I I I tabbed it up. I tabbed
39. 9:08it up. Let me go to library and then let me go to trouble. Trouble. And then if I go filter public,
40. 9:43[singing] >> that's not one I thought I published. But I like it. [music] >> Oh, by Kyle Singh. Oh, that one. Oh,
41. 9:57really? See, see [laughter] that that that was so foreign to me [laughter] that you would want the version with me singing it. Oh, that
42. 10:08that Well, [laughter] that is very sweet. [music] >> [laughter] >> Oh, [music] the organic one.
43. 10:30I guess my one year will start after the AI festivist in the salon. No way, Sonia. Your your one year your
44. 10:38one year starts last night. You came in strong. I I got to tell you. So, if you're if you're new here, last night
45. 10:47Sonia came in and she was like she was like, "What the hell is this?" [laughter] She I don't think she I don't think she
46. 10:54cusses. I don't think she swears, but it was it was that was the spirit of it. She was like, "I was I was uh I I was
47. 11:01searching AI and I stumbled upon this here live and like there's a dog singing and you're playing guitar. What What is
48. 11:07going on here?" And then she discovered we actually have some stuff going on. We have the AI salon and we've got the AI
49. 11:14Festivus and we have a singing dog. [laughter] So you officially started last night. I do like a sailor. Okay, good. I'm an
50. 11:24engineer in the Bay Area. Okay. Yeah. So So you can swear. You can swear. Right. Good. [music] [music]
51. 11:38Brandon told me last night uh that in the comments you said that you had worked on the original Palm Pilot. I
52. 11:44owned one of those. I owned the original Palm Pilot. That thing was pretty that was pretty exciting. That was the first
53. 11:51I owned a Newton. I owned the first Newton. and and owning the first Newton was was absolutely if you don't know what the Newton was,
54. 12:01it was an Apple device that was like the it was it was pretty much the size of this screwdriver set, but it was longer.
55. 12:10It was big [laughter] and uh you could see that the future was in it, but it wasn't the future. And then the Palm Pilot came out and it was
56. 12:23like it was um technically kind of a step back from the Newton but it was so simple and elegant that it was like ah
57. 12:30[clears throat] that felt like the future. The Palm Pilot was the first thing that felt like the future. That's
58. 12:34pretty cool. We have all asked at one time or another what the heck is this? Yes, I ask nightly. [music]
59. 12:48[music] [music] Oh, that's good. Um I Yeah, I saw that she had done that. Oh, web us. We have a
60. 13:03wireless. We had wireless charging in 2008. Apple had it in 2015. That's so cool. Festivus is a national holiday. [laughter]
61. 13:16AI festivis is a is once a year, baby. [laughter] [music] Standing between you and [singing] haunt place is [music]
62. 13:31insane. Standing too near you in a file makes it clear [music]
63. 13:48your trouble [music] to me. [music] Real trouble. Can't you say? [music]
64. 14:05[music] [music]
65. 14:22There's been something, baby, I've [music] been trying to say for an age, and it seems I don't know how [music]
66. 14:36with the past and the future now [singing] surrounding me. [music] Surrender to whatever dream, thrill can be found. [music]
67. 14:49There's been [singing] a little trouble since you came [music] to my rescue. [music] And if you were like all of the rest, I
68. 15:02would have quit long ago, but I couldn't do that. [singing] [music] Oh, [singing] tell me now, women. Why I never went to Well,
69. 15:18make a man crazy, make [music and singing] him cold as hell. I'm a woman that you wish me well. But in spite of your trying,
70. 15:30[singing and music] still going to have to find my way through. [music] All right, let's get this show on the
71. 15:42road. Let's get going there. So, we are we are like 60 hours out. It's the day before the day before Festivus Tik Tok pit.
72. 15:50My car has Wi-Fi and I can't get over it. [laughter] That's awesome. Did you see the [ __ ] Whimos? [laughter]
73. 15:59This is astounding to me. How long's been out? 10 [ __ ] years. So the top third of San Francisco loses
74. 16:07power and so all the street lights stop and [laughter] the Whimos all the Whimo cars don't know what to do because their
75. 16:16entire training is based on street lights, [laughter] traffic lights. So they all just stopped where they were and turned on their
76. 16:24hazard lights. [laughter] Oh my god. [laughter] Oh my god. It's so funny. I mean,
77. 16:40listen, I I mean, it's not funny because I'm sure people were stuck places trying to get the [ __ ] [laughter] out out and
78. 16:47they couldn't because the robot the robot cars couldn't figure out what to do. It it it baffles my mind. It boggles
79. 16:57the mind that at some point some engineer somewhere didn't go, "Hey, uh, what if there were no traffic lights?" [laughter]
80. 17:09And this is why we can't take the steering wheel away. Oh [laughter] my god. They're all just like, [laughter] [gasps]
81. 17:23um, the next five years are going to be a [ __ ] trip, everybody. They're going to be a trip cuz these cute little LLMs that we have
82. 17:33right now, they're they're getting more than cute. And I think 2026 is going to be the first year where they start to
83. 17:39get they start to get strong enough that it's like, oh [ __ ] okay. All right. All right. They showed up. They showed up.
84. 17:46What are we going to do with that now? And then probably 26, maybe 27, we're going to start to see robots. And
85. 17:54we've got robot cars. And then we're going to have walking robots. And you know, there's going to be more than one
86. 17:59Tik Tok video of of a robot losing its [ __ ] in a piggly wiggly. [laughter] And I'm here for it. Whimo didn't have an angry jet Xer in
87. 18:12the corner. If if Whimo had had an angry Gen Xer in the corner, at some point they would have gone, "Hey, you know how
88. 18:19the uh what's it called? The uh I'm not a technical person, but the with the electricity and the wires. Oh, you mean
89. 18:27the electric grid?" Yeah. Yeah. What if one day like that went out and all these lights stopped working? That that's a it's a very low
90. 18:36likelihood. It's the uh the electric grid has a 99.62% 62% uh percentage of of being up. It the chances of it being
91. 18:44down for more than a seven seven minutes and 32 seconds technically. Probably a little longer if you round it round it
92. 18:52down or up. Anyway, um yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah. We're here. Here's the thing. Put in the Can you write the code to make
93. 19:00the thing so if it doesn't know what to do, it pulls over? >> Well, that that would be RELATIVELY TRIVIAL. YEAH, [ __ ] DO THAT.
94. 19:10>> [laughter] >> I SAW THE ROBOT dancing in a concert in China. Too good. Yeah, Pav. That that those robots dancing in China. Those
95. 19:20were trippy, man. They're fast. That's China's China's working on the scary fast robots. Ours are still like elderly
96. 19:29elderly patients coming out of some sort of rehabilitation situation. When chiners are like whoop whoop they're doing concerts and dance
97. 19:39moves. [laughter] Vicky Vicky Baptiste our traffic lights go out on the regular. That's not normal. I I'm telling you like how is it
98. 19:50possible they somehow have never encountered traffic lights being out? [laughter] I just I I know. Listen, I'm just an angry Gen
99. 20:01Xer. I I don't I do not know of your engineering feats [laughter] and how difficult it must be to make a car not
100. 20:09suck on its own, but that one's a big one. [laughter] Oh man, Scott Parker, the first gift they've ever sent. You sent a rose. Very
101. 20:22nice. Thank you very much, Scott. I appreciate that. Oh man, happy holidays to you. You don't know how you've helped me.
102. 20:32Great news to share soon. Good. Listen, Festivus is coming up. If you're new to this AI stuff, if you're trying to
103. 20:41figure this out, Sonia's in here. She came in last night. She's trying to figure this stuff out. She's back tonight.
104. 20:49The single most important thing you can do if you're trying to figure this AI stuff out is get in community. AI
105. 20:58Festivus is a perfect opportunity to a escape the madness of your family. Or if you like your family, bring them. Come
106. 21:07to Festivus. Come hang out. Come meet people. Come chat with them. Come watch the presentations. What you're going to what you're going
107. 21:17to likely go away with is a sense that, oh, I could probably do this. Oh, it really you can do that? Like
108. 21:32that's possible? Like it'll be hour after hour after hour of people showing you stuff that you're just like, "Oh,
109. 21:39wow. I I've never thought about it like that." Oh, like, "Oh my god, that's ah that's remarkable." Um, that's what it's going to be. Um,
110. 21:48okay. So, here's what I want you to do. Go to aifestivist.com right now. Sonia did this last night and she was asking
111. 21:54really good questions like, "Hey, what's this deluxe replay bundle and and what is the the mastermind and what is the
112. 22:01the um the AI readiness training program? What are all these things?" Go check all those things out. We've also
113. 22:07got a virtual trade show booth. If you've got a brand and you want to get your brand in front of people that are
114. 22:12curious about AI, trying to figure it out, trying to be the next leaders in whatever this thing is, nobody knows
115. 22:19what it is. I've been doing this for three years now. I come on here nightly and talk about AI and nightly someone
116. 22:26says sir may I inquire rather yeah carrying on uh what pray by chance uh not to offend [laughter] uh are your qualifications um and and
117. 22:41you know my qualifications are that I show up you know that I show up that I'm in the conversation and not much more than that
118. 22:50because things are moving so fast in AI right now that it's actually really hard to be more than that. You have to be
119. 22:58adaptable. You have to be nimble. What AI festivist is about is gathering people who have kind of figured this out
120. 23:05to share where they are right now on their journey. Some of the some of the conversations are going to be people
121. 23:10that were just starting out last year that came to Festivus, realized, "Oh, I think I could do this." And have
122. 23:16transformed their lives. Some of the people you're going to be hearing from have been doing this AI stuff for 20
123. 23:22years. They were doing AI before it was generative AI. They were doing old school AI where you had to bring your
124. 23:28own data and know things like math. [laughter] It it was a time in AI where I was not welcome. [laughter]
125. 23:37There are some of those people there. There are IP attorneys. There are people who are making films. There are people
126. 23:43who are um uh running their businesses, transforming their businesses. Jim Jim Ross is going to present. He's he's like a 10p person
127. 23:53like highlevel executing team and he's one guy. He's one guy running his business executing on this really high
128. 24:00level because he's embraced all this stuff. So that's what AI Festivus is about. And I figure what we might do
129. 24:05tonight is just kind of kind of dig through the uh the run of show, go through the schedule and talk about
130. 24:11things. And then I also want to show um Brandon put together a uh a little a little contest called um called Salons's
131. 24:23Got Talent where people were invited to submit anything and it could be anything from an image to a song to an app to
132. 24:31something they wrote. Doesn't matter. Just submit something. And so we got a bunch of submissions in and uh we've got
133. 24:37five finalists. So I wanted to show you those five finalists tonight and we'll break some news and then we will reveal
134. 24:44the winner uh during festivist which is really exciting. Um beautiful. Uh what else? Anyone have any thoughts
135. 24:56questions before I dive in? I'm going to have a little hydration because I didn't have it last night and I blew my voice out. [laughter]
136. 25:11All right. [clears throat] [gasps] So, if you want to join the AI salon, go to community.thesalon.ai.
137. 25:21You can go do that right now. Right now, I would go do that. It'd be pretty good. Be pretty good. All right. Here's this.
138. 25:29We're going to go into slideshow mode. I'm going to share this tab. Brandon, you want to hop up here and uh tell the good folks about
139. 25:39the contest you put together. >> Yeah. So, AI Salons's Got Talent. We've actually been talking about doing
140. 25:46something like this for uh the better part of a year. And with the mastermind subscriptions going up uh January 1st
141. 25:53and all the hyperon festivists thought wouldn't it be a great time to have this contest and give away a free mastermind
142. 26:01subscription to the AI salon. So we put it out there about a month ago and we had uh if you want to go to the next
143. 26:08slide we had 20 submissions from 15 different people which by the way this slide I have to say looks beautiful. Uh
144. 26:16Gemini built this slide for me. I had just a standard like 20 submissions, 15 participants and I there was a icon in
145. 26:24Google Slides that says beautify this slide and it made this which I think is >> that's awesome. >> So we we whittleled it down to five
146. 26:34finalists. And I'll tell you what, that was a we had four judges. It was myself, uh, Kyle, Liz, uh, Gersfeld, and Andy,
147. 26:44uh, who put together and kind of ranked each one. And it was really tight. Like, we're talking points of a percentage difference
148. 26:53between like fifth and sixth place and third and second place. And so, we got them into the five finalists. And then
149. 27:00we all put our heads together and we determined the winner. And it was probably one of the toughest decisions
150. 27:08that the four of us have made this year. Uh just because everything was so good. If you go into the contests and
151. 27:14competitions, you can see all of the submissions. >> Uh but what we wanted to do here was highlight the five finalists that we've
152. 27:22procured and voted on. And then the winner will be announced live at Festivus on Friday. >> Yeah. And and what's nice about if you
153. 27:30go look at the submissions in the salon in in the competitions space um some of the people that submitted their their
154. 27:38submissions also told the story of like how they created it and what they did and things like that. So so really
155. 27:45really really good. So thanks for putting this together Brandon. Um so the first finalist these are in no
156. 27:50particular order uh was an image so you could you could submit anything. Um and uh this this image uh garnered the
157. 28:00attention of the editor of open AI open eye. I can't say open without AI. Open [laughter] eye an international magazine
158. 28:08that features photographers. Um and it is it's just a gorgeous stunning stunning photograph. So that's in the
159. 28:17finals. Um, I love photographs that that tell a story. And you know, this one tells seems like it's telling a lot of stories. Um,
160. 28:28when I see images like that, like where I want to go is like, you know, what is the story of that woman? Like, you know,
161. 28:34I want to know it. And, you know, now now with AI, we can we can take images like that and bring them to life. Um,
162. 28:41Vicky Baptiste is in finals. her uh custom GPT called the almost oracle um is really really good. So if you go to
163. 28:52um to chat GPT to your um your where it says GPTs on the left and say explore GPTs and then search for the almost
164. 29:03oracle. Um we can hop in here. Little old me, you made it. You made it. You're gonna you're you're gonna be something in this town. Um,
165. 29:14so, so basically it's it you you ask it about something and then it basically comes at you from a different angle. So I'll say, um,
166. 29:23>> can can you ask it which tab you're supposed to be sharing? >> Oh, that's cute. That's cute. Do you see
167. 29:29that? Do you see that? What do What do I do? do I do if my producer is passive aggressive um but usually
168. 29:46right [laughter] here's a practical playbook written as if it's coming from your future self um these moved helped in order separate
169. 30:00the correctness from the delivery >> [laughter] >> Force the feedback into a clean channel. Preempt them. The quiet rule I wish I'd
170. 30:09known sooner. If someone is passive aggressive and accurate, they usually feel unheard. [laughter] I do need a shot collar. Don't I
171. 30:20[laughter] give Brandon a raise? [gasps] So anyway, so this thing's pretty cool. Um, you know, so go play
172. 30:29with the almost oracle. So that is um our second second contestant or our second submission that's in the finals.
173. 30:39[snorts] Um the uh the third one is a song from Greg Selvin called Sidelong Glance. Um there were a number of Sunno
174. 30:49songs and these songs were really interesting. Um, and it like what's fascinating about Sunno songs is Sunno is so capable of
175. 31:00making good music, it's hard to know, you know, what went into something and and you know, where where the idea came
176. 31:08from and what it was, but this is one that clearly had a a bunch of thought put into it or or it was very well
177. 31:14curated and so it stood out. So, let's go listen to this.
178. 31:29>> [music] >> As days heat fades to warm in the soft embrace of your eyes,
179. 31:44I find a twinkling grace beyond Time beyond space. Twilight [singing and music] chatter on the cool breeze.
180. 32:01Peaceful rhythms in the [singing] tall trees. [music] Moon send misses these days demise.
181. 32:16[music] Your hand class mine a passing knees. A sidelong [music] glance. My heart skips a beat.
182. 32:32[music] Your beautiful face. [singing] It's the curve [music] of your cheek. The porch swing sways to and fro.
183. 32:48[music] Life's long [singing] journey. The sharing flow. [music] Fortune's favor gently [singing] applied.
184. 33:05[music] Subtle reminder of time gone by. [music] Thousands of days [singing] of [music] conflict haze.
185. 33:21A noral life melted [music and singing] away. All right. So, I'm going to stop it there. We'll play the whole thing tomorrow so
186. 33:30you get a sense of that. Very, very cool. Um, the next finalist is Kelly Bosch. Um, if you don't know Kelly Bosch's work, you
187. 33:42need to follow her. You should follow her. Just head to Tik Tok and look up Kelly Bosch. I think she's on YouTube as
188. 33:48well. [snorts] Um, I think she's on Instagram. Hang on. I know. I know. I know. Tabs,
189. 34:05tabs, tabs. [laughter] Calm down. Calm down, everyone. All right. Here's Kelly Bosch. I'll play about half of this as well.
190. 34:24The day dissolves its heavy shape. [music] I let the logic fall away. A sudden perfume in the cold.
191. 34:40A story that was never told. I do not turn the other way. I let the strange guest come and stay.
192. 34:57The armor slips off of the skin [music] to let the fluid hour in. Oh, [singing] the [music] surrender to
193. 35:10the tide. Nowhere left to run or hide. I [singing] am theoreid, [singing] >> you know. One of the things that
194. 35:29that I mean there's a there's a couple of things about Kelly's work that I find I find really remarkable. One is
195. 35:40just the consistency of it. She does multiple videos a week. Um they're almost [clears throat] always
196. 35:47good and interesting. She's gener she's generating original songs for the most part. Her early videos were using songs
197. 35:54from her. She's got a really good knowledge of music. Um, now she's generating her songs. She generates the
198. 35:59images, generates the the the clips, puts them all together, and publishes them out. Um, this video is a really good example of
199. 36:12she's taking advantage of what AI does really well, but she's doing it through a very, very particular creative point of view.
200. 36:22And [clears throat] it's the reason her work stands out is that even though she talks about what tools she uses,
201. 36:31if you've ever tried to make a video that's like a Kelly Bosch video, it's really hard because she's got such a
202. 36:38clear creative point of view. And this is one of the biggest things that I'm excited about for Festivus and I'm
203. 36:46excited about for the AI salon community is that it's full of people that understand that their idea, their
204. 36:54values, their point of view is actually the most important thing. Yes, you have to learn the tools and what's possible.
205. 37:02But once you learn what's possible and if you do what what Kelly's done is focused her energy in this very narrow
206. 37:08she's like I'm gonna make these kind of videos that have these aesthetics that I like and these musics that I like and
207. 37:14the and tell the stories that I like and she's just been like hammering that and refining her voice and refining her
208. 37:20voice. So this to me is a really good example of someone who's using the same tools that we all use, but does it in a
209. 37:27way that I think even an AI hater, in fact, I had one of the the husband of a friend of my wife's who's an artist is
210. 37:36kind of this AI hater guy and he and I have had some some tussles on it. And the last time I saw him, he said, "Hey,
211. 37:44have you ever heard of this AI artist named Kelly Bosch?" And I'm [laughter] like, "Heard of her? Yeah, I'm a huge
212. 37:50fan of hers. Um, and he's like he's like, "Yeah, this is there's something different here. Like I could I could get
213. 37:56behind this." So, you know that but but the reason for that is is she's just very clear in who she is first and then
214. 38:05you know the work comes through that. So, that's the fourth finalist. And then the fifth finalist, go read the full
215. 38:11story on the AI salon is Mike Syler Caler. Um a short story um whom is writing whom? A fictional exploration of
216. 38:19the role of AR AI in our creative process in assisting us to be our best self. Um so so go check out his his
217. 38:30short story. What I like about this is we've got an image, a song, a short story, a video, um, and a and a custom
218. 38:38GPT. So, we've got five different kinds of media that that rose to the top. And I think, you know, to to an entry, they
219. 38:48all reflect the creator's personal point of view in a in a very powerful way. So, um, so that's that's Salon's Got Talent.
220. 38:57Are there any other things? Yeah. So, so the winner is going to be announced at Festivus. By the way, if you're new
221. 39:01here, if you just joined, um this Friday and Saturday, December 26th and 27th is AI Festivus. AI for the rest of us. If
222. 39:11you have not registered, go now. Go now and register. And um sign up. And [clears throat] if you want to support us, there's
223. 39:23friends and family sponsorships. There's a virtual trade show booth. You can pre- buy um a deluxe replay bundle. There's
224. 39:31all sorts of ways you can support, but this is free to anyone. So, if you're in a situation where you're trying to
225. 39:37figure out what to do at work or for work, um getting yourself educated about AI is really smart. I got an email two
226. 39:45weeks ago from someone from this community that said they just survived a layoff that deleted her entire division except her.
227. 39:59All of the people in her division are gone, but they kept her. Why? Because she knew AI. Because she was out
228. 40:08loud about it. She was talking about it. Here's what I do. Here's what I'm interested in. Here's what I'm curious about.
229. 40:14So, this is this is not we're we're we're exiting the fun and games era of AI. It's starting to get serious. And
230. 40:22so, so AI Festivus is 12 hours on Friday, 12 hours on Saturday of free education with people that are just
231. 40:30doing remarkable stuff with AI. It'll be inspiring. It'll be fun. Um, at at uh noon Pacific on Friday, uh, I'm doing a
232. 40:41preview of the musical that I've been working on for a year and a half called Sydney and art artificial love story
233. 40:49about an AI chatbot that falls in love with a tech reporter. So, we've got actors coming in reading reading reading
234. 40:55the parts and then we'll hear the music and uh, there there won't be a dry eye in the house. U, shit's getting real.
235. 41:02Exactly. Side hustle. Side hustle Mimi, by the way, not to humble brag or anything. I think at this point she
236. 41:09should just brag brag. There's nothing humble about it. Um, no, she she decided, I don't know, a month
237. 41:18or two ago, I think I'm going to learn how to vibe code. [laughter] She's not a coder. I think I'm going to learn how to vibe
238. 41:26code. And she wanted to do some sort of therapy app and then ran into some regulatory things and then she said
239. 41:31like, "Okay, well, I'll deal with that." But in the meantime, I still want to I think I'd like to make an app, like an
240. 41:37app that you could sell on the app store. And so she did it. And yesterday we uh we got to see it. No, I'm not a
241. 41:46coner. I was an analyst. Only SQL code. Um I mean, what I can tell you about if she was doing SQL code, she can she can
242. 41:56logically like [laughter] she can look at what's going on and say, "No, I want it to be like this. I want it to be like
243. 42:01that. I want it to be like that. That's where we are with with creating things now is that our job becomes
244. 42:10we we're the arbiter of taste basically. And so the app that she created um is is uh it celebrates her Puerto Rican
245. 42:19heritage and it's these it's a sticker collection of Puerto Rican frogs stickers. They're great. They're
246. 42:25awesome. Um it's 99 cents in the app store. Wait, what's it called again? It's super cute. It is super cute. I forget the name of it.
247. 42:34[clears throat] I want to get some people to go check it out. Um, Koke Cuties. C O UI. Ki I think K. Koke Cuties.
248. 42:48Um, and then yeah. Oh, here I can click on it and show you the thing. de Coke Kitties. So, this is someone from
249. 43:03right here in our our wee little community, our humble little community, who decided she's going to go out there
250. 43:10and and make us something and put it in the world and make the world a little happier and celebrate her heritage.
251. 43:17Yeah. Like, yeah, that's that's flipping cool. All right. Right. Amazing. [clears throat] I'm releas I'm releasing
252. 43:272.0. 0 to support iOS pre26. Great. [laughter] She's she's already iterating her app. She She's no longer an app
253. 43:36developer. She's now an apporter. She's now [laughter] in customer support. So, there's a whole new level of AI
254. 43:44she's going to have to learn. [laughter] Oh, that's hilarious. That's really good. Um, cool. Let's head over to
255. 43:58AI Festivus. So, so here as we're going through here,
256. 44:14register. Um, if you haven't been here yet, go register. Um, jump straight to the daily schedule. So, let's go check that out.
257. 44:23>> [clears throat] >> All right. Fantastic. Opening remarks. Opening remarks by Ann Murphy and Kyle Shannon. We're going to be talking about
258. 44:33stuff. I think what we're mostly going to be talking about is how excited we are and how both of us haven't had coffee yet. [laughter]
259. 44:41Talking about tabs. Oh, did I not? I went to a new tab, did I? Um, [clears throat] let's see. a AI business AI powered
260. 44:52business transformation from strategy to e execution. So we're going to start out with AI transformation. So every one of
261. 44:59these um sessions there's an explanation of what it is in there. Um and so you can go check these things out. You know
262. 45:07this is one of those things festivist I think what you'll find is like like any good sort of conference like this you'll
263. 45:14look through the list and you're like oh I'm interested in that interested in that. What we found last year is that
264. 45:18people sort of came to the opening and then they just kept watching and just didn't stop. They just kept hanging out.
265. 45:26And so we had we had really good attendance throughout the throughout the uh the two days. And I'm I'm super excited about that.
266. 45:34Um my fan club has completed the first stage of the club quest. Congratulations, Tik Tockers. You've done something. [laughter]
267. 45:42I don't know what it is because I I don't I to my detriment I don't pay attention to uh Tik Tok's engagement
268. 45:50farming but you know what are you gonna do um making things that don't exist um Joy Perie and Ken Weissman is at 10:30
269. 45:58so award-winning filmmaker Joy Perie in a live interview with composer oh so so Joyy's got this beautiful award-winning
270. 46:06video um of these ballet dancers you know dancing and it's kind of this smoke and dancing kind of combo thing to this
271. 46:14original piece of music from composer Ken Weisman. Um, and so they're going to talk about putting that together. Um,
272. 46:22from vision to real AI agent automation. So Rachel Zipsy uh and Abdullah Yaya are going to talk about AI agents. And then
273. 46:32at uh 100 p.m. uh mountain noon Pacific. Yes. Uh 3:00 p.m. Eastern Sydney and Artificial Love Story musical preview
274. 46:46with Kyle Shannon, Andrew Watts, uh Melissa Achilles, and Jack Frederick. So Melissa and Jack are the actors. She's
275. 46:54playing Sydney, and he's playing Kellen the reporter. And then Andrew and I are going to talk about the origin story and
276. 46:59how we've spent the past two years essentially working on this musical which we're right now in the middle of
277. 47:06producing. We're we're shooting to do a workshop uh this year and uh see if we can't get this bad boy mounted in New York City
278. 47:19um at 1:00 understanding intellectual property laws for AI work. So Ann McCracken uh is is an intellectual
279. 47:28property attorney. Um she was on the AI readiness project podcast with Anne Murphy and I this two weeks ago and she
280. 47:36said she had done her homework. Her her presentation was completed and then everybody changed their laws or their
281. 47:45rules around trademark and copyright and things like that. So she she has had to update. So this is up tothem minutee.
282. 47:54Um, property law, intellectual property law. Um, I'll use AI to focus on gene editing to solve genetic disorders. We have power.
283. 48:05We do. Who is that? Uh, Nando. I can't see your last name. Yeah, it it's on a bad background here. Um,
284. 48:13I talked I talked the other day. There's a high school in Georgia that just used crisper gene editing uh to find a a
285. 48:21diagnosis tool for Lyme disease. that's effective within two days of a bite. The current technology is only effective two
286. 48:28weeks after you've had the bite, which you know can sometimes mean that the the spyroet can migrate into your um other
287. 48:36parts of your body. Um which is what my sons are dealing with. um and they're they're high school students and they've
288. 48:43they've got a a novel um mechanism for detecting it based on crisper technology and then they think that can also turn
289. 48:52into um a treatment uh as well using the same technology. Um yes, the high school gave hope and showed censorship. Wait, uh let's see. I
290. 49:03was not told wait told the tolls by the AI in the past. Now it does. Yeah. We're like we're [clears throat]
291. 49:16So, so what I would say is this. Right now, the state of AI still requires you to be fairly high level in terms of your understanding of
292. 49:25science. Um, as these tools get more and more and more powerful, that barrier to entry is going to drop and drop and drop
293. 49:33and drop. Right? It went from you had to be a PhD facility to now it's dropped to high school. But it's a pretty elite
294. 49:40high school group with pretty elite technology. But that's just going to keep coming down, coming down, coming
295. 49:45down. And again, what this comes down to is the thing I'm just going to keep hammering home. One of the things that
296. 49:52we talk about in the AI salon, um, we've created this framework for a daily practice around AI, centered around AI,
297. 49:59how you use AI, and at the center of the practice is you, right? This is not about which tool should I use.
298. 50:09To a great degree, the tools are strong enough at this point that it honest it honestly doesn't matter.
299. 50:17Right? if you want to do a particular kind of video like like I got an I got an opportunity today to participate in a
300. 50:24video project and someone sent me the script and the script is like you know football players from these specific
301. 50:32teams with these specific football players and I'm like okay well you can't you can't do brands and specific people
302. 50:41with certain AI models so you kind of need to know some stuff there might be other tools we can news. I also have a
303. 50:48big question about intellectual property there and how that's going to be used. And I'm not I'm not going on the hook um
304. 50:55for someone else's intellectual property laziness. [laughter] So So there going to be some indemnification or I ain't
305. 51:02doing [ __ ] [laughter] Um but you can just do stuff now. and and but but it's about you saying here's the kind of thing I want
306. 51:16to do. Here's the kind of work I want to do. If what you want to do is work on um curing diseases and making people's
307. 51:25lives less miserable from a health care perspective, [ __ ] far out. Like yes, go do that. um at uh 1:40 PST, Feats of
308. 51:36Strength with Rick McCaulay and and Marlene Paul. Um that should be a fun one. Um we're going to take uh we're going to
309. 51:44steal one of the breaks uh tomorrow at 2:20 Pacific time and AI Salons's Got Talent has been slid in there. So, so
310. 51:53thanks to the uh the organizing team for for accommodating that. And uh we're going to present the winner of Salon's
311. 52:00Got Talent. Um at 2:30, we've got Authentic Storytelling in the Age of AI with Erica Hana. She is I'm pretty sure
312. 52:08she's an Emmy award-winning um TV producer and just badass, you know, creative human being. uh is going to
313. 52:16talk about how do you do how do you do authentic storytelling in the age of AI right all of the haters
314. 52:25if you listen to the haters you know AI can't be creative it can't be a authentic by definition it can't
315. 52:33well that's not true [laughter] like like we we have seen in this channel on on you know numerous occasions it can
316. 52:42but it's all about how you use it and it's all about how you craft, you know, the chain of craft. What are the
317. 52:49elements you're putting together to leverage AI to tell a story? So, you can absolutely do authentic storytelling.
318. 52:54She's going to be talking about that. Um, at 3:10, the hidden AI gap, why owner operated businesses are being left
319. 53:01behind and how we fix it. That's fascinating. Uh we're going to then have a big break and then at 4 o'clock
320. 53:07Pacific, Feats of Strength with Kelly Camp and Shannon Siver uh are going to be sharing some stuff, some more Feats
321. 53:14of Strength. I love our Feats of Strength. They're just little little vignettes. Let's see what these guys are
322. 53:18sharing. They're going to be sharing beyond prompts and demos. Why being AI native what what being AI native really
323. 53:27means. Being AI AI native isn't about the tools. It's about how you think once AI is always available. Yeah. Yeah. Kelly Camp's in here
324. 53:37tonight. Give her some props. Like I don't How How do you give people props in Tik Tok? You like poke them. Do you
325. 53:44poke people on the Tik Tok? [laughter] Poke poke Kelly appropriately. Appropriately people. Good lord. Um Okay. Um,
326. 54:01uh, Kandi Gangora, the human side of AI leadership. Again, some of the themes that you're starting to see in these in
327. 54:08these sessions. This is about people, right? From chaos to clarity, a smarter way to use AI is at 5:30. At 610,
328. 54:16reimagining cinema, how AI is opening new worlds um for underrepresented creators. That's Kimberly Offford, and
329. 54:23she's going to be um showing some films from a film festival she just had. And I think she's even bringing some of the
330. 54:29filmmakers to talk about what they're doing. Um, at 7 o'clock, Feats of Strength with Chris uh Houston and Leah
331. 54:37Fasten. They're going to be showing some work. What are they going to be talking about? Um, make AI a piece of cake.
332. 54:44[laughter] In this demo, we'll whip up some tasty context layers that shapes AI behavior. Cool. Beautiful. So, if if
333. 54:53you're wondering where I am right now, if you've if you're just coming in, I'm looking at what what's called in the
334. 54:58business the run of show. So, here's the schedule for AI Festivus that starts on Friday at 9:00 a.m. Pacific, goes for 12
335. 55:06hours on Friday, and then starts again on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. Pacific, and goes for another 12 hours. So, it's 24
336. 55:13hours of programming over two days for free. So, if you go to aifestivist.com, check out all the goodies, check out the
337. 55:21sponsorship packages, check out the the replay bundle. There's we have deals on uh some of the uh some of the offerings
338. 55:29from both she leads AI and the AI salon. So, go check all that stuff out. That's where we are right now. Um at 7:40,
339. 55:37Squirrel Shiny Object organize your your curiosity with Cindy [ __ ] Cindy [ __ ] is an absolute just badass futurist, but
340. 55:47she's also a card carrying member of the ADHD club, but she's also really good at like organizing her work. So, she's
341. 55:55going to teach us some things about how to how to not be so chaotic in this world that invites chaos. [laughter]
342. 56:07And then um uh beyond the hour, building your business uh for the AI driven future with Danielle Lafleur and then uh
343. 56:16Ann and I will close it up at 8 8:40. So that's the first day. Um so like that's just one day like all that stuff and like and it is
344. 56:26purposefully diverse and and and things are scattered all over the place because one of the things that we talk about let me let me
345. 56:35actually flip out. We'll come back to this. Um, you know, one of the things that we talk about in the AI salon, we call it the
346. 56:44the cycle of AI readiness is play first and then create excellence and then generously lead. And one of the things that happens when you
347. 56:56play with AI is that you get a chance to unlock what you think you should use AI for, right? If if you're just focused on a
348. 57:09particular kind of work and then you say, "Okay, I got to learn this AI. Okay, I'm going to learn how to use AI
349. 57:14to do the thing I know how to do better or faster or more efficient." It can absolutely do that. But what that
350. 57:23robs you of because you've got you've got expectations tied to that, right? If you're a project manager and you're
351. 57:29like, "Okay, I'm going to use AI for project management efficiency." You you're you're putting it in a very
352. 57:36narrow canyon, right? And then you're just going to judge it against what you know and how you know it, which is good
353. 57:42because that's what you know. What it robs you of is there are things now possible for you and your skills
354. 57:52that might lie significantly beyond that that thing that you think you need to use AI for. And so by playing and
355. 58:01exposing yourself to different points of view, you actually discover, oh, it can do that. I really like that. I used to
356. 58:08do that when I was a kid. I should do more of that. Oh, it can do that. I've never been good at that. I always told
357. 58:13myself I was I was not a technologist, but now I can code. You you start to discover things that are way beyond your boundaries. Um
358. 58:23and and the design of the run of show is to purposefully kind of [laughter] bounce you from from mode to we go from
359. 58:33business to a musical to intellectual property to how to run a business to how to make pretty images. Because what's going to happen is at
360. 58:42some point you're going to go, "Oh, that's me." And then you're going to see something you're like, "Well, that's not
361. 58:45me." But like, "Oh, that's cool. Wait, I could do that right now. Yeah, you could." And then you'll go try
362. 58:53that and you'll go play that and you can share the things you're creating on the AI salon with other people in the
363. 58:58community. It's one of the reasons that we talk so much about community. So, I learned in the in the very early
364. 59:06days of the worldwide web, I started a group called the Worldwide Web Artist Consortium in New York City. And it was
365. 59:13actually a shameless attempt to surround myself with people that knew more than I did about whatever this new thing was
366. 59:22called the worldwide web. And I knew a little bit about it, but I knew I knew that there was someone out there that knew about it and and I
367. 59:36could learn from them. And so we had our first meeting and 10 people showed up and we went went around and everyone
368. 59:44introduced themselves. And so these were people that were interested enough in whatever the worldwide web was to show
369. 59:50up to a meeting. like got off their asses and they went to a it was actually an acting rehearsal studio [laughter]
370. 59:59and we sat in this rehearsal studio and we went around and what I learned was not a single person at the table thought
371. 1:00:09that that they knew what they were doing. Everyone felt clueless. Everyone felt unprepared. And as that
372. 1:00:17group grew from 10 people to 20 to a 100 to 2,000 um we would hold by bimonthly meetings in the Sony headquarters uh in Midtown
373. 1:00:28Manhattan. They they Sony gave us uh this was unbelievable. They had a conference room that sat 300 people and
374. 1:00:39so we would fill that conference room up twice a month um talking about the web stuff and for two or three or four years
375. 1:00:48nobody knew what they were doing. Everyone was trying to figure it out and that's exactly where we are with AI. So
376. 1:00:53the reason to get in community is because everybody's got a teeny tiny little piece of the puzzle and and the teeny tiny little piece that
377. 1:01:03you have that you think is insignificant will actually be a revelation for someone else. They'll be like, "Oh, I
378. 1:01:13never thought of it like that." So the reason we talk about that cycle of AI readiness, play first, create
379. 1:01:20excellence, right? Do good work. Don't just do work. Don't just slop it out up and just squirt out [ __ ] Do excellent
380. 1:01:28work. And then the third component of that cycle is generously lead. And what that's about is take that
381. 1:01:35little nugget of whatever you learned and share that with the community because it'll be a breakthrough for
382. 1:01:41someone else. And then someone else will share something that'll be a breakthrough for you. And then in doing that, you'll get
383. 1:01:48comfortable about being in a leadership position, a natural leadership position, right? Vicky Baptiste is a really good
384. 1:01:55example of someone who's very very um you know, shy and didn't didn't speak up much when we first started. And man,
385. 1:02:02she's like blasting it out there on social media now. She's you know, hosting events. She's just kicking ass. and and
386. 1:02:12that that level of of being in the world with this stuff is is really remarkable and it's it's serving it's serving you
387. 1:02:22know people in the community quite well. I know but it's it's true Vicki like [laughter] you really you really went
388. 1:02:29from like no I don't want to be on camera and like you just you're just kicking butt now. You're you're you're
389. 1:02:34just, you know, I would argue at this point you're you're better at the social media [ __ ] than I am. I'm so
390. 1:02:40inconsistent with it. I I'm consistent with this, but you know, the actual put [ __ ] out on the multiple channels. That
391. 1:02:48thing I I ain't good. It's a uh that's a 2026 uh re resolution. Um yeah, it's very cool. All right, so let's go look at day two. H
392. 1:03:04beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Um, what did I do? What did I do?
393. 1:03:21Is what was Oh, I see what I did. cancel.
394. 1:03:36There we go. [sighs] The attack of the black bar. Yeah, apparently I just went to buy a uh a black rectangle from a a stock
395. 1:03:45photography site. [laughter] Okay. Um day two opening remarks. Ann Murphy and I I know what we're going to
396. 1:03:53say on day two is we're going to open up day two with holy crap, could you believe day one [laughter]
397. 1:04:03because we'll have all sorts of comments and people will be, you know, spreading the love and and talking about their
398. 1:04:09favorite speakers of the day. Um so so we start out with that. Um at 9:30 um Louisa Bal and uh Ulina Lacy what 500
399. 1:04:20plus students across 14 countries tell us about AI and higher education uh with also Cassandra Silva Silen uh Sillan Sibilan
400. 1:04:33sorry names [laughter] um at 10:30 raising kids in an AI world with look at that producer Brandon. Hey Brandon, you want to hop up and talk
401. 1:04:43about your your session? >> Yeah. So, uh, you know, AI is everywhere and you know the those of you who follow
402. 1:04:52my journey in the AI salon know that my son produces music with Sunno and I've written a couple of children's books and
403. 1:04:59uh beyond that, we also want to talk about the impact that is having on education and parenting in general. Uh
404. 1:05:06Jimmy Fallon had Sam Alman on and he he's a new father and he says I don't know how I did this how anybody did this
405. 1:05:13without AI and chat GPT and so uh it's going to be a little bit of that and I've got a couple of great co-henters
406. 1:05:20and we're just going to do it uh panelist style and really looking forward to being um back from behind the uh microphone and and on stage.
407. 1:05:29>> Nice. Beautiful. Thank you. That's exciting. Yeah, Brandon does really cool stuff. It's, you know, one of one of the
408. 1:05:35nice things Brandon does is there's no because of his relationship with technology being, you know, he's he's very integrated with it. Um,
409. 1:05:48when his kids have ideas, he just like helps them bring those ideas to life using AI. So his kids are the first generation
410. 1:05:59that their entire lives they're they're going to understand that they live in a world where they can have an idea,
411. 1:06:12speak it out loud, and manifest it, right? Do you remember the secret from the 90s, the the the movie The Secret?
412. 1:06:20And they're like, you know, if you if you speak it, you'll manifest it. which you know there's something to that. This
413. 1:06:26AI stuff is the literal technological manifestation of that same idea, right? We figured out a way to encode to embed
414. 1:06:36all of the knowledge of humanity or like some large percentage of it or some small percentage of it but some amount of it into this magical
415. 1:06:46softballsized canister that you can just talk into and out comes words, out comes pictures, out comes music.
416. 1:06:56So his kids are going to live in a world where they just get to speak things into existence. And that's not going to be weird. Like for us,
417. 1:07:06it's still weird. I mean, even if you've been in here every day for three years, like a a lot of the irregulars, a lot of people that
418. 1:07:16hang out in here, they've been experiencing this for a while, it still blows me away that that I can just
419. 1:07:28I think back to when I learned Photoshop and I learned layering and and like if you had text over a clouded background
420. 1:07:34or like a modeled background and you had to change a letter, you had to like go in and like rubber stamp little shapes
421. 1:07:42around a letter and you'd put the letter in there. It was it just it was painful. And now you can just go give me a whole
422. 1:07:48scene of 20 penguins ice skating in Rockefeller's Center and just [laughter] there it is like that is here like that. It's remarkable
423. 1:08:03to me still is because I know what the world was like before that existed. And it [ __ ] sucked. If you wanted to make
424. 1:08:13something, you had to [ __ ] know how to make something, right? And that's what the creative community right now, that's one of the
425. 1:08:21things they're bitching about and that they're afraid about is like, "But that's where all the value is." Well,
426. 1:08:28that's where all the value was. This is this is not still creating stuff. It's just creating stuff in a
427. 1:08:37different way. And it's creating stuff in a more instant way. And so what that gives creative professionals the
428. 1:08:44opportunity to do is rather than taking a week to explore one idea, they can take a day to explore 10 ideas. It's
429. 1:08:51just a completely different modality. Anyway, um, after raising kids at 11:20, the lead magnet lab build your first AI
430. 1:09:02powered freebie with uh, Sakina Rasheed and Ann Murphy. Very cool. Then we take a break. You you are allowed to to use
431. 1:09:10the bathroom at AI Festivus. We're we're not rigid. You can get up. We do not have shock collars other than for me. 1220.
432. 1:09:20Yes. And AI with Corey and Kanty. Let's read about that one. What if working with AI felt like a creative jam session through a tech uh
433. 1:09:31more more like a creative jam session than a tech tutorial? In this fast-paced beginnerfriendly session, hear it. Hear
434. 1:09:39it here first. Sonia, if you're still here, beginner friendly session marked down 12:20 Pacific on Saturday. Um,
435. 1:09:50you'll use play and improv to explore how human skills like curiosity, listening, spontaneity can unlock smarter, more effective things. I'm
436. 1:09:58telling you what, I I wrote an article about two years ago called Rise of the Agile Human. And what it talks about is
437. 1:10:05that the things that we value in today's world that someone's got skills. They can do Photoshop. They can do they know
438. 1:10:12how to write. They know how to [clears throat] do design annual reports. Whatever it is, those skills, we value people on their skills.
439. 1:10:21There's a whole other whole other side of being a professional, which is this attribute side. And attributes like
440. 1:10:28being curious and being adaptable and being um engaged and and having a creative point of view are increasingly
441. 1:10:37going to be valued in the workplace as the skills part of the job get automated and democratized. So anyone will be able
442. 1:10:46to do any skill. Who rises to the top? Well, those people that are curious and playful and have spontaneity and can
443. 1:10:53listen and have good empathy skills and things like that. So that's going to be a great session. Yes. And um Okay. At
444. 1:11:011:00, uh tap in trivia, tech, and treats. Good. We have a we have a trivia section. That's awesome. Awesome. at
445. 1:11:09120. We're living in the sci-fi timeline with Beth Lions and Juni Hatcher. That one's going to be great. What they're
446. 1:11:16basically talking about is like sci-fi. We're We're kind of living in a sci-fi documentary now. So, they're going to be
447. 1:11:24talking about that. Ah, 210 tomorrow, AI Festivus, the airing of grievances. So, this is Daisy Thomas and Kathy Orana. um
448. 1:11:34and uh they're going to be talking about AI advocacy and a policy town hall. So part of generous leadership is
449. 1:11:44you know understanding and fighting for rights that you know not only do we want legislation that protects us from the
450. 1:11:52risks of AI. I think everybody is well aware that there are risks. It's all anyone talks about for the most part.
451. 1:12:00What we're also saying is there are some real remarkable um opportunities that AI presents to individuals and to small
452. 1:12:08businesses and and founders and entrepreneurs. We want to protect that access as well. And so it's about
453. 1:12:14balancing both of those. And so that's going to be a really powerful session. At 250 the AI portal for interchain interchange
454. 1:12:23uh should be great. Um at 3:50 on Saturday, AI Film Festivus uh with Chris Voluone and Kelly Bosch. So we're going
455. 1:12:32to see some films from them. Um Feats of Strength with Chef Kelly. Uh and Erica Lamont is at 4:30. At 5:20, how I work
456. 1:12:42like a team of 10 with AI Jim Ross. Uh I'm going to be interviewing Jim um about the things he's done which are
457. 1:12:52remarkable. He's the thing I like about Jim. I mean, one, he's just a super nice guy. He is in a business that is the
458. 1:13:03I if if you were to describe a business that you would say it's the last kind of business that would adopt AI.
459. 1:13:12It's the self-s storage business. When I think of self storage, I think of like um you know storage wars like like all
460. 1:13:20those Yahoos, you know, bidding on [laughter] on on lockers, selling their crap and getting in fights. It it it is it is a
461. 1:13:29kind of business that is just you don't need AI for it, right? But what Jim did was he said, 'Well, I'm an entrepreneur
462. 1:13:36and I've got these needs and I've got needs for things like marketing and communications and writing emails and
463. 1:13:42creating contracts and understanding contracts and doing financial projections and all of the things you do
464. 1:13:48in running a business. And so what Jim said was rather than saying, "How do I apply AI to storage?" He said, "Well,
465. 1:13:57what am I trying to accomplish in my business?" And then I'm gonna do things like go hang out at the AI learning lab
466. 1:14:04and I'm gonna learn what's possible with AI. There's this weird guy Kyle that talks about this stuff all the time. And
467. 1:14:10what Jim did was in that play first kind of idea of AI readiness. I would show how to do something on this channel and
468. 1:14:18Jim would just go, "Huh, okay. I see how to do that. How would I do that for some problems that he's having in his
469. 1:14:27business?" And then he would have a breakthrough. then he would have a breakthrough. And now he's recognized as
470. 1:14:32as one of the leaders in his industry. He he regularly gets asked to keynote um and and kind of lead the charge with um
471. 1:14:41soloreneurs that have these businesses amplifying their operations. So that's going to be a powerful one. Um six
472. 1:14:48o'clock, not me, but not not me. Um Liz Miller Gersfeld is going to be talking about um creating the daily practice.
473. 1:14:55So, so Liz is the co-host of the AI Salon and um she and I and Andy Scarantino um put together this framework for um
474. 1:15:07the AI mastermind practice um or the AI salon mastermind practice um and she she co-hosts with me on Thursdays at noon uh for the practice
475. 1:15:18lab where people that are building and designing their daily AI practice get together and talk about it. um really
476. 1:15:25powerful. So that that'll be a great one. Um at 650 we've got Logan Kilpatrick. If you don't know Log Logan
477. 1:15:31Kilpatrick, he's a group product manager at Google DeepMind. He's working on the AI um AI studio for Google Labs uh for
478. 1:15:41for Google DeepMind. AI studio.google.com and the Gemini API. Um really smart guy. We're really lucky to
479. 1:15:50have him. So, that's exciting that that we're going to have Logan talking about what Google's up to with um with Gemini
480. 1:15:59and how they've kind of taken the uh I I feel like Gemini and Google has taken the lead back from OpenAI. So, that
481. 1:16:06that's an exciting one. Um at 7:40, um Think Like Yourself using AI to excavate your cognitive signature with Vanessa
482. 1:16:15Chang. So, if you don't know Vanessa, if if you go to the Tik Tok channel Think with V, um that's Vanessa Chang. She's
483. 1:16:21remarkable. She's an amazingly nice person, an amazingly smart person. Um and she's going to she's going to close
484. 1:16:28that out and then Ann and I will wrap it up and I think we're going to have an afterparty, an official afterparty. So,
485. 1:16:37Sidehustle Mimi, the mastermind practice is amazing. It requires heavy lifting on the personal side, not AI. I'm telling
486. 1:16:44you, man, that the the the the practice lab for me, I I have confronted more of my own personal [ __ ]
487. 1:16:54in the past five weeks because of being part of the practice lab where it's like what we're what we're learning in the
488. 1:17:01practice lab. So, if if you want to know more about it, if you go to the um community.thesalon.ai I and go to there's a tab down in in
489. 1:17:10learn and grow called the mastermind practice lab. Click on that and you can you can see the framework for for
490. 1:17:17designing your your daily practice. That's what that framework is what we're using um for the practice lab. Um
491. 1:17:26it is really remarkable to to be intentional about how you use AI. And by intentional like really look at who are you? What do
492. 1:17:38you want? What are your values? Who do you value in the world and how do you want to affect them? How do you want
493. 1:17:46to impact them? How do you want to transform them? Is it a small group? Is it a medium group? Is it a family? Is it
494. 1:17:52a community? Is it a state? Is it the world? Right? We all get to choose what stage we want to play on. and you can choose
495. 1:18:02not to play on a stage, right? One of the things that that we're seeing in the practice lab, which [clears throat] is really exciting,
496. 1:18:10I heard this from Kevin Clark. He said that when he started thinking about a daily practice with AI,
497. 1:18:18what he realized was he was losing touch with writing with a pen and a and a notebook. So, one of the things that he added back
498. 1:18:30into his daily practice was every morning he writes for an hour like like pen and paper like like like this
499. 1:18:44right because he was realizing that he was losing that that facility and what he found is that it's improving
500. 1:18:53his AI. Cindy [ __ ] did the same thing, but instead of writing, she realized it was watercolors and doodling and making
501. 1:19:01little illustrations that she loved. And she has a whole studio on she lives on a farm up in the mountains. And and she realized
502. 1:19:11that she wasn't doing that. And so in her daily practice, like a big part of her daily practice now is watercolors. What for AI? Yeah.
503. 1:19:23Because that feeds her, that nurtures her. That gives her ideas about, huh? Well, if I could do that, what if I did
504. 1:19:31this? And then if I used AI, I could do that. She pushed past something which I thought was was really, really powerful. She um
505. 1:19:44[laughter] I'm like I'm like a crack dealer. She goes, she goes, "I've got this style like this doodle style and this and this
506. 1:19:54watercolor style and I, you know, and I and I love it and I I've got all this thing." And I said, "Well,
507. 1:20:01what if you made a midjourney mood board of your style and then you could just describe to midjourney what you wanted
508. 1:20:10and it could, you know, come up with lots and lots of ideas for you. And her initial response to that was like e like
509. 1:20:16you know stay away AI crack dealer. [laughter] And then she goes she goes she pushed her way through it. Like there there was
510. 1:20:28some resistance there. Like one of the things that we're finding in the in the daily practice is that wherever you've got a complaint
511. 1:20:34that shows up there's usually some gold underneath that, right? there's nor there's usually something that you're
512. 1:20:41avoiding or you haven't given yourself permission to do. And so she kind of gave herself permission to go figure out
513. 1:20:48what it was to make a midjourney mood board. And and so she started playing with these things and it started making
514. 1:20:55images that looked like her images. And rather than kind of shut her down or uninspire her, it gave her new ideas for
515. 1:21:05things she wanted to go make by hand, right? and it, you know, it it it sparked her imagination rather than shutting it down. So anyway,
516. 1:21:15so that's two days of Festivus. It's a lot. It's a lot and you should be there for the whole two days. You really should. You really should.
517. 1:21:26All right. Um, Kavuno, AI has inspired me to do analog, too. Not just digital. Not just digital more. Yeah. Listen, again, I I think
518. 1:21:42the more I learn about AI, the more I integrate what it makes possible.
519. 1:22:01I hesitate to talk about this stuff sometimes because it sounds [ __ ] weird. Um, there's a lot of talk about, you know,
520. 1:22:15is the AI going to kill us? Are the robots going to kill us? Right? There's there's a lot of talk about the the doomerism, the the the the
521. 1:22:23danger side of AI gone rogue, right? If you look at the the Whimo cars that just stopped and turned on their flasher
522. 1:22:31lights, I don't think the robots are out to get us. I think they're just trying to figure out this world of ours. [laughter]
523. 1:22:37But let's, you know, but there's there's there's a possibility, right? There's a possibility that these things go dark
524. 1:22:43and go rogue and they're a danger to us. What I don't hear many people talking about is the other side. I think there's
525. 1:22:50as likely a future as that really dark future is a future where the AI frees us to be who we are to do what we want.
526. 1:23:08Like the the the the concern and panic over losing jobs is justified and real. I think the automation of the tasks that make up the
527. 1:23:20bulk of our work today is coming and it is going to be disruptive. I think what we're going to realize is
528. 1:23:27that a lot of those jobs were shitty jobs, they're shitty, repetitive, soulcrushing, dealing with the complexity of a world
529. 1:23:38that's evolved over the past 150 years of industrial revolution and just capitalism run a muck and citizens
530. 1:23:48united making corporations people. It's just everything is so [ __ ] complicated and overly engineered that most of our jobs
531. 1:23:58are about dealing with the [ __ ] we created. A lot of the jobs are not that inspiring. So what if the AI can eat up those jobs and free us
532. 1:24:18to ask the question if AI enabled me to do what anything I wanted to do then the question is on me to answer the
533. 1:24:30question what do I want to do and it's on you and it's on the people in your family. What do you want to do? You're entering a world
534. 1:24:46where this technology will assist you in doing anything you want. And let's assume it's 10 people that the
535. 1:24:56AI within two years is going to be good enough to essentially give you 10 full-time, not even full 40 hours a week, full-time, 247,
536. 1:25:0910 247 employees that don't need a break that will do anything you want them to do. What are you going to do? What would you
537. 1:25:21choose? Tik Tok pin. Most of us will be doing jobs that don't exist yet. Yeah. And Kuno, you know, there's some someone in in in in talking
538. 1:25:33about all this stuff like someone once said they were talking about if you took someone from 1895. If you took someone from 1925
539. 1:25:42and you brought them forward and and and you said, you know, what's your job to some 25year-old twerking YouTuber?
540. 1:25:52They'd say like, I make videos. [laughter] I'm an influencer. That person from 1925 would look at that
541. 1:26:01job and they would be like, that's not work. That's not a job. Work is about toiling in the in the factory. But you wait, but what do you
542. 1:26:14do on these videos? You you teach people how to do things. Oh, no. I do dance moves. What do you mean dance moves? Like this. [laughter]
543. 1:26:27And that's your job? Yeah. How much do you make? I don't know. Last month I made $150,000. Wait, what? >> [laughter]
544. 1:26:39>> Right? The jobs of today are unrecognizable as jobs, you know, from even 50 years ago. Someone from 50
545. 1:26:47years ago would look at the jobs today and go, "What is that?" There's another set of jobs 20 years from now that we're going to look at
546. 1:26:57from today's perspective and go, "That's not a job. Juggling is not a job. Walking with a human around a park like
547. 1:27:09they're a pet is not a job. It might be. We don't know. We don't know what the jobs are yet. We don't know where the
548. 1:27:17value is. If the AI does the tactical execution of our work, what's left is us asking what do we want to do?
549. 1:27:32going to be some crazy ass [ __ ] It's going to be cool. They wouldn't have believed us 15 years ago. Yeah, exactly,
550. 1:27:43Bob. And I love that idea. Saving the world starts with my spell check bot. Yes. But you know what? It actually [ __ ] does. [snorts] Saving
551. 1:27:53the world starts with no Puerto Rican frog sticker app. She's going to make the world a slightly more tolerable place. [laughter]
552. 1:28:06What do you mean? There's a Puerto Rican frog sticker app. Yeah, there is. I didn't know you could do that. Neither did anyone else.
553. 1:28:15But she figured it out. And she put it in the world. And it's going to make some people [ __ ] smile someday that were having a
554. 1:28:24shitty day. And someone's gonna send them a little Puerto Rican frog. Hang it. Here's your sticker. Hang it. [laughter] Right. [laughter]
555. 1:28:40All those little All those little seeds of self-expression. The thing that I'm excited about for Side Hustle Mimi, for no with this app
556. 1:28:54is not the particular expression that she made an app and got it on the app store. Like for her personally, that was
557. 1:29:00a big journey. Lots of people put apps on the app store app store. But what it is for me is it's the personal
558. 1:29:06self-expression. like she took something that was meaningful for her and she figured out a new and exciting way to
559. 1:29:12package that idea up and put it in the world and it's going to excess a different group of people than if she
560. 1:29:19had done that as a a children's book or a sticker book or a set of stickers she sold on Etsy. It's a completely
561. 1:29:26different thing. It's a completely different mode of expression, but it is 100% true to who she is. Those are the things that that Kelly
562. 1:29:37Bosch video that I showed you that there's something about it that's just different than the other kinds of videos that
563. 1:29:44people using the exact same tools make. Why? Because that video is an expression of who she is and her creative point of view.
564. 1:29:54That's going to be our job. That's going to be our job. And so to the extent that you're not in touch with that
565. 1:30:05we're creating the AI salon mastermind practice, right? Is to start having this conversation about it doesn't matter what tool you
566. 1:30:14use. It's irrelevant. They're all fine. They're all good. What's the best AI? Whichever one does your [ __ ] thing. Whichever one for Noami,
567. 1:30:25the best AI was the one that let her [ __ ] figure out how to make an app on the Apple App Store, submit it, and get
568. 1:30:33it [ __ ] approved. I'm sure it was a dozen of them. I'm sure there was a dozen different AIs involved in that journey.
569. 1:30:41She probably doesn't remember a third of the apps she used to get there. The apps are irrelevant. What's what's
570. 1:30:49relevant is that she took the idea, had the idea, [clears throat] said, "Huh, wonder if I could make an app,
571. 1:30:58was motivated enough, was driven enough, was curious enough, was adaptable enough to navigate the roadblocks,
572. 1:31:08get rejected by Apple, resubmit, and have them go, "Cool, you're in." That's remarkable. Wait, what tool? Who gives a [ __ ]
573. 1:31:28Christmas homework. Yeah, here's your Christmas homework. I want you to go spend really, really, really, really, really good quality time
574. 1:31:38with your family, with your friends, with yourself. Just being. just take in like 2025 I think we can all agree was a [ __ ] dumpster fire
575. 1:31:55[laughter] for me personally what like just what a [ __ ] [ __ ] show and I think for a lot of people but we're here we're still here
576. 1:32:11um we've got this remarkable community and you've got, you know, your family and you've got your friends and you've got
577. 1:32:19yourself. And so I would spend some time over the holidays just take a breath, take in what was good about 2025, what didn't
578. 1:32:30work about 20 2025, what you're excited to leave in the rearview mirror, what you're excited like I'm excited in 2026 to really step into
579. 1:32:50This is going to be weird to say because I'm on here every night. Really step into my voice. Really own
580. 1:32:56the things I create and talk about them freely because I don't right now and I haven't for years. I create these things
581. 1:33:04and then I kind of hide behind them. It's this it's a very weird dynamic. And so 2026, I'm really excited about
582. 1:33:12just being me and just owning, you know, what it is in life that I'm discovering. We all give a certain amount of
583. 1:33:22ourselves, right? And there's there's kind of like most people see like some percentage of us. And let's say they see
584. 1:33:29a lot of it. 99% of you they see there's like in my case, there's like this 1% I hold back. There's this 1% that I'm
585. 1:33:37afraid of, that I'm stingy with that I that I just I I keep back. I hold back. And what I'm learning is that when I
586. 1:33:52don't hold that 1% back, [ __ ] remarkable things happen. [ __ ] remarkable things happen. Like I've got some pretty badass
587. 1:34:04producers who are signing on to work with me to get this musical I wrote produced in New York, which is my dream. And
588. 1:34:17that came out of a moment where I wasn't holding back that 1%. So I think we all have these little reserves of our humanity of of who we
589. 1:34:28are that we just we protect it. It's like the little nugget of the the nugget of pure energy, you know, plutonium 584,
590. 1:34:39right? That is the is the source of everything we are. You just like, yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna just hold this back
591. 1:34:47a little bit. So So that's what I want you to do on over the holidays is just just be and just, you know, notice that
592. 1:34:58little thing. What is that little thing for yourself that you hold back? And then [clears throat] Boxing Day, the 26th, the day after
593. 1:35:06Christmas is the first day of AI Festivus. I would say drink some solid eggnog the night before. Wake up a little groggy and get
594. 1:35:16your ass to AI Festivus and hang out with us for two days. And then just just be just enjoy it. Just celebrate it.
595. 1:35:23Just know that you're in community. Know that you're with people trying to figure this [ __ ] out. All right.
596. 1:35:30So, that's it. What are we doing on time? Perfect timing. Um, I really, really deeply appreciate each
597. 1:35:38and every one of you. Producer Brandon, you do like you show up here a lot. The irregulars and the mods that show up on
598. 1:35:46Tik Tok and YouTube and support Vicky, you're amazing. Um, to all the mods on on Tik Tok and just the the irregulars
599. 1:35:54that regularly show up. Um, you know, I want to take a moment to just acknowledge this past year we lost
600. 1:36:02uh Serena, uh, Alio's wife, who was the one that came up with the term irregulars. Um, very early on in this channel,
601. 1:36:12um, these weirdos kept showing up night after night after night after night. And and about a month and a half into into
602. 1:36:21starting these lives, these live streams, I said [laughter] I I said, "Y'all are just a bunch of weirdos." And Serena immediately, she's
603. 1:36:31very quiet, she didn't say much, but she immediately clapped back with, "We're not weird, we're irregular." And and that was the moment the
604. 1:36:40irregulars were born. Uh yeah, we like turtles. Um, and so, so I miss Serena and I miss I miss that energy. I miss
605. 1:36:49that her generosity and her she loved every single person in this community. Um, loved them and they loved her and so
606. 1:37:00that was a that was a really big loss this year. So anyway, um, thank you all for hanging out. Thanks for for your
607. 1:37:08support as always and uh have a beautiful next couple of days and I will see you Friday at 9:00 am Pacific time. Uh if you go to
608. 1:37:18aifestivist.com you have to register. You'll be sent a Zoom link and you will jump in the party and be hanging out
609. 1:37:24with it. It's going to be fantastic. All right, afestivist.com. Go register if you haven't. All right, everybody.
610. 1:37:30Fantastic. Go drink some eggnog. Uh slice the ham. Do whatever you need to do. Slice the ham. [laughter]
611. 1:37:40Go grind the cranberries. I got some I got some cranberries to grind here. All right, I'll see y'all later. [laughter]