12/22/2025 - Abracadabra: Using AI to Speak Your Creative Projects Directly Into Existence

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1. 0:02[clears throat] [music] [music]
2. 0:27[music] [music]
3. 0:51[music] [music] [music]
4. 1:14[music] Who is the bloody [music] Christmas
5. 1:32sweet this place where the feelings don't [music] over
6. 1:48this place I [singing and music] get no face the only one I truly can >> [music] >> These are tears from a long time ago.
7. 2:03I need to cry 30 years or so. These are tears from a long time. [music]
8. 2:20Oh darling, darling, you say unto me, where have you been all my life? [music] I have been swimming
9. 2:36sad seas [music] mel [singing] [music]
10. 2:52[singing and music] so these These are tears for a long time.
11. 3:08Go. [music] [music]
12. 3:22>> Um, that is a beautiful song. One of the things I was thinking as I was playing that was, uh, couldn't you have learned
13. 3:30some Christmas songs? [laughter] Something a little something a little cheery, a little winter wonderland, a
14. 3:37little something not depressing. I played that one song once at an open mic night that was a combo. It was a combo
15. 3:44singer songwriter comedian night [laughter] and I played that and I got off stage and the host was like, "Yeah,
16. 3:52who's going to do comedy after that?" [laughter] I find that song inspiring and and uplifting, but apparently 30 years of
17. 4:01tears is not everyone's cup of tea. [laughter] Ah, what are y'all going to do? What are you going to do? What are you going to
18. 4:11do? I could do my black bar. That I could do. That I could do. I could I could preempt the uh the nasty gram
19. 4:18coming from producer Brandon. That's that's something I could do. >> [music] [music]
20. 4:34[music] [music] [music]
21. 4:50>> Yeah. >> [music] [music]
22. 5:14[music] [music]
23. 5:31>> in a westerly direction. This car is my train. [music] I've been driving. I've been wondering
24. 5:47what it is I'm running from again. Feel [music] [singing] like an 80y old man holding on to 29.
25. 6:01And up on that horizon line. [music]
26. 6:18[singing] Brea good. Cute little front door and two windows. My lord ain't sure whether to cry or should laugh.
27. 6:34You see I broke a home myself once. [snorts] As I stumbled to that dog [music] I read along by the dogs lie.
28. 6:48They said, "Don't you come around [singing] here anymore."
29. 7:05Never was good with decision. [singing] At least what I've been told. [music] >> [music]
30. 7:23[music] >> There's a cool story about that song. So, it's about this salesman driving across country and you know, Martin Ston
31. 7:31was asked, you know, was it like from his life or was it his dad? And he was just like, "No, I just kind
32. 7:40of imagined what it would be like to be like an old sales guy, you know, hanging up the uh hanging up the car keys for
33. 7:47one last time, thinking about his life as a salesman. I like that. I like that we can just make [ __ ] You can just make [ __ ] up.
34. 7:58[laughter] And if you know what, if you channel it right, you can make What's cool about life and our brains and and
35. 8:07the creative process is that if you get yourself in the right state of mind, you can create things that are quite
36. 8:16authentic that you've never experienced. And you know, in a weird way, that's what you're doing when you're
37. 8:23using AI, right? You're tapping into all of the stories that have ever been told that have at least all the ones
38. 8:32that have got stuck on the internet. That's a lot of stories. [laughter] And then [clears throat] and then it's
39. 8:39your job to prompt it and and massage it in such a way that it pulls things out of that hive mind that ring true for you, right? It
40. 8:51doesn't have to be your story. It doesn't have to be and crafted by a human. In a in a weird way, this is the
41. 8:58thing that people just still especially the AI haters just do not grock about about AI is that it's not a robot that
42. 9:09you're interacting with. It's other people. It's their output. Anyway, happy Christmas. Happy Christmas to you. Thank
43. 9:18you. Thank you for the kind words. My life is one long sequence of making up stuff. Yeah. Handcrafted the oldfashioned way with
44. 9:28human soul. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Woo! Festivus again. So everybody, everybody today, this week, Festivus, Friday
45. 9:41archetypal, I just published a book one of my novel series on KDP. That's a huge accomplishment. Um, book one of my novel series. How many
46. 9:55books are in the in the series? That's really exciting. Cams. Yeah, KDP's a beast. Kindle public Kindle
47. 10:09Desktop Publishing, I think is what it stands for. It's a beast. [music] Did you ever see KDP and Kobe are both
48. 10:20using books now to [music] train AI? That's interesting. Two so far, but I plan for hundreds. Wow, that's so cool. [laughter]
49. 10:37So, are PJs okay for Festivus? I think PJs are encouraged for Festivus. Yeah, it's in um Festivus is in uh whatever
50. 10:46you call it, auditorium mode. We're using Zoom in auditorium mode. So, it's just whoever gets promoted to stage are
51. 10:53the only people that are on stage. So, yeah, you can be doing whatever. You can be chatting on the salon, you can be
52. 10:58chatting in the Zoom chat. It's up to you. Um, if you want to like upload stuff and connect with people and trade
53. 11:04information, you can do that on the salon. Um, but if you if you're here and don't know what Festivus is, go to aifestivist.com.
54. 11:14There it is right there. [snorts] AIFest, AI for the rest of us. It's this Friday and Saturday, the 26th and 27th.
55. 11:23I can't believe it's here already. Amazing. Um, and uh we uh we start at 9:00 a.m. on Friday Pacific time. So 10
56. 11:3410 a.m. my time. And then we go until 900 p.m. Pacific on Friday. So 12 straight hours. [music]
57. 11:54>> [music] >> How do you watch Festivus? You will be sent a Zoom link. I think [music] you have to be registered for it
58. 12:04and I'm sure it'll be on aifestivist.com. Yeah, register on aifestivist.com. Brandon, do you know the answer to that? I actually don't
59. 12:11know the answer to that. I know it's a Zoom link. So, I assume the Zoom link will be in the AI salon. I assume it'll
60. 12:18be Zoom link to be emailed. Okay, there you go. To registered users, we're up to probably close to 2,000
61. 12:29registered uh participants at this point already. That tends to go up this week. Oh, the virtual expo. If you have not
62. 12:36seen the virtual expo, if you go to aifestivist.com and click on virtual expo, um you can see all the people that got
63. 12:44virtual expo booths. It's really cool. Um, if you want your brand to be in front in front of a lot of people that
64. 12:51are curious and learning about AI, like that are motivated enough about learning how to get their head around AI to spend
65. 13:0024 hours on the Friday and Saturday between the holidays and and New Year's. Um, to sit in there and learn that [ __ ]
66. 13:10Uh, it's it's probably something good to get your brand in in front of. Um, so so yeah. So, I would do that [music] 500,000 words into it.
67. 13:23Yeah. Archetypal, I'm curious what your uh what your process is for how are you like for Sydney for for Sydney the
68. 13:34musical. I I did an initial push with AI to organize my thoughts, organize the structure of the plot. um do some initial songs
69. 13:49and then Andrew, my writing partner, and I have spent like the past year and a half like comp completely like stripping it down,
70. 13:57rebuilding it, stripping it down, rebuilding it, stripping it down, rebuilding it. We've done four major rewrites. We've basically remixed,
71. 14:05redone, recrafted, rewritten all the lyrics for all the songs, rebuilt all the songs. Um, so I'm just curious what your process is. [music]
72. 14:29A shoe register. What' she say? But that's effort. [laughter] Yeah. Your commitment for AI festivists
73. 14:38is you have to register. It doesn't cost you anything, but you do have to register. I know it's ridiculous.
74. 14:47Well, first I wrote 132 chapter rough draft. That's hilarious. [music] [laughter]
75. 15:03>> [music] >> I've got a flash goal on Tik Tok. Tik Tok is doing some engagement farming right now, telling me I've got a flash
76. 15:16goal. Do you want to know my flash goal? I don't know what a flash goal is. You know, there'd probably be more people in
77. 15:24this live if I knew what a flash goal was. Please don't flash the goal. [laughter] I talk to my cloud every day. I can't be anti-AI.
78. 15:39[music] [music] [music] Yeah, I could do that.
79. 15:55[music] So I had a really well a really good experience. I had a very powerful experience with AI over the weekend
80. 16:09where I had I had a bunch of year-end financial analysis to do and then but it included a bunch of past years
81. 16:19and I didn't have good documentation for it. And normally I've done this kind of thing before and it's it's normally
82. 16:27weeks worth of work because it was it's like it's like it's basically doing like financial forensics. Um, and
83. 16:39just through a combination of like creative prompting and data, you know, the data analysis within chat GPT,
84. 16:47it was able to just crunch through stuff in a way that I could get answers to things that would normally take me a day or two to dig
85. 16:56through stuff in like five minutes. And it [clears throat] so so there's a couple of things about it. I've tried to do this kind of thing
86. 17:07with earlier versions of chat GBT and it failed miserably. Like like we're definitely these tools are definitely at a place where you can do
87. 17:19a much higher level of work um than you could before. So that's exciting. And then the the other thing that struck me is that
88. 17:32it it it was a kind of work that I'm particularly bad at that I have a lot of shame and lack of skills around.
89. 17:43And it allowed me to do that kind of work without feeling like a piece of [ __ ] [laughter] which is which is cool because the one
90. 17:54of the things that we talked about in the AI salon, the mastermind practice lab is we were talking about um crossing
91. 18:02boundaries like like doing things um in your life that you know you're bad at and and purposefully go across those
92. 18:11boundaries. This was definitely one of those. Now, this wasn't what I call an aching gap. There's an aching gap is one
93. 18:18of those areas of your life you're not good at something, but you really want to be good at it. This is an area of my
94. 18:23life that I took I just don't care about it and but I but I have to deal with it, right? And it's a it's a source of
95. 18:30shame. So, I just want to be able to be good enough at it to be done with it. And I got to do that and it it was quite
96. 18:38remarkable. And what it what it did for me is it's making me think of all of my different projects. I've got more
97. 18:47projects than a human being should have going in parallel, right? [clears throat] It's ridiculous. Um Elon
98. 18:55Musk has a few more going than I do. I mean, his are bigger. Mine are mine are kind of baby versions of that, but it's
99. 19:01it's a lot, right? It's a lot of attention. And and what I got struck by this weekend in doing that work is I can take
100. 19:11the same approach with any one of my projects. If there's any area I'm feeling stuck or I'm feeling like, oh, I
101. 19:17don't really want to deal with that, I can just sort of smash my way through it with with chat GPT. So, that's that's pretty exciting. Um,
102. 19:28Silver Fox, let's see. Big [ __ ] fan of Claude. I'm hearing more and more more and more people are talking about um clawed over chat GPT.
103. 19:46David Shapiro in particular hates chat GPT now. He hates it. [laughter] I love people that are opinionated
104. 19:57because like [clears throat] when he was into it, he was into it. Now that he's not into it, he's not into it. >> [clears throat]
105. 20:06>> There we go. Um, [music] oh wait, here archetypal is telling me how how he wrote his book. He started
106. 20:19withund what 45 chapters did he say? 132. I thought of a couple of tweaks and 10 chapters into that deleted the rough
107. 20:30draft. wrote and published a hundred other books to hone my voice. Then came back and rewrote the rough
108. 20:40draft into good enough without making me crazy. Huh. That's wild. You know, archetypal, that's that's not dissimilar to what Joy
109. 20:52Pertie did. I think Joyy's in here tonight, right? Joy Pertie did that where she started making this film for the AI salon and about
110. 21:01two to three months into it realized she didn't know enough about video editing to do the stuff she wanted to do. So she
111. 21:09sheld the project and went and taught herself Da Vinci Resolve and made a whole bunch of other films and then came
112. 21:17back to the AI salon project and finished like she did the first three minutes. I think she said it took her
113. 21:23two and a half months. Yeah, she's here. Great. Took like two and a half or three months to do the first two or three
114. 21:29minutes and then she did the last four minutes in like a week or something like that because she knew the tools. That's
115. 21:36pretty cool when you know again I I when I'm I I ache inside because of the the people that are that are just
116. 21:50vehemently anti-AI that they make such presumptions about it like oh you're just lazy people without any creative
117. 21:58you know they make all those kind of assumptions but also like in our community we've got examples of people who are using AI in
118. 22:09in incredibly powerful ways, in ways that would piss off AI haters, right? They're use like Joyy's using it to make
119. 22:16all of the assets for her films. Um but but what they completely discount is how committed she is to learning the
120. 22:28craft of storytelling and and learning the craft of digital storytelling and and using the tools that filmmakers use
121. 22:35for digital storytelling, right? um she may not have to use that in the future, but but she's she's she realized
122. 22:45that in order to do if she wanted to do what she wanted to do for the state of technology where it was
123. 22:52when she started, that was what she had to go do, right? And I just and same thing with you, archetypal. There's
124. 22:58there's there's so much skill and it was funny. It's like one of the things I learned this weekend is there were
125. 23:05things that I didn't know how to use chat GPT to do, but I knew enough about prompting and just about like, you know, if it's given
126. 23:15me something shitty, come at it from a different angle and come at it from a different angle and come at it from a different angle and
127. 23:22eventually you sort of quickly figure it out. And once once you have a framework for how to do something, you can just
128. 23:28keep going. So anyway, but with the AI, but with the AI, the actual writing, it's a huge amount of back and forth, brainstorm, outline,
129. 23:39correct for continuity and plot, draft, reddraft, reoutline, draft. Which which tool are you using? archetype. Are we
130. 23:47using chat GPT or are you using Claude? Kyle, you're getting into an exasperation loop. [laughter]
131. 24:02That's it's meltdown Monday. I think it's only appropriate. Book talk goes wild against it. There's a whole
132. 24:08movement of silly arguments. It boils down to class and job security, which is valid. Listen, I listen, they're not
133. 24:15wrong. They're not wrong to be afraid that AI is going to [ __ ] things up. They're absolutely justified in doing
134. 24:24that. The thing I cannot [ __ ] understand, I feel like we're in the thing that I cannot get my head around
135. 24:39is that they think that by protesting it, it's going to go away. And it's like we've got the entire history of the human race
136. 24:50where new technologies are feared and resisted and then [laughter] and then the technology just keeps rolling. It never
137. 25:00stops. It doesn't stop. It's not going to stop. So if it's not going to stop, the only people they're hurting are themselves. I
138. 25:07don't get it. I don't get it. chat GBT the projects are essential and Claude can bite me with those context limits.
139. 25:16Oh, that's right. Yeah, Claude's really bad at that. And and like how many hours a week were you working on it? Was it Is
140. 25:24this like something like Sydney where I'd work on it on the weekend primarily [music] or are you doing it full-time? [music]
141. 25:36They want it to be NFTTS. Actually, that's a really good point, isue, that that I think that I I think because we had um
142. 25:46because we had sort of the blockchain NFT debacle, crypto and and NFT debacle right before AI. I think that there I
143. 25:55think that there's actually a precedent where they can say they can say, "Oh, AI is just like crypto." Yeah, it's not. It's not. [laughter]
144. 26:07But that's a that's a really good insight. They do want it to be NFTTS so they can say, "Told you." So I told you
145. 26:13I told you it was bad. Told you it was bad. Yeah. Anyway, um Okay. So, if you're new here, we got some some new
146. 26:20folks. Oh, we're actually No, we've we've still barely got anyone here. Everyone's home with their families.
147. 26:25What are you people doing? Why are you people here with me? [laughter] Did you guys see um did you guys see in chat GPT they're now
148. 26:37doing a um [clears throat] year in review working hard. Beautiful joy. We're we're that [laughter] lonely or
149. 26:49dedicated. This is my family. That's the right answer, Vicki. This is your family. It really is. It really is. Um,
150. 27:00yeah. I'm excited that your LOL went well. I'm excited you built you vibe coded two things in your LOL. So
151. 27:06Vickiy's LOL last week was on using um um Lovable in conjunction with the Atlas browser, the the the uh the AI browser
152. 27:20from Chat GPT and using them them in conjunction scheduled for an hour. She said it went two and a half hours. um
153. 27:28source camp. Um this is my family just did my year in review. Okay, so here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do my year
154. 27:35in review. Um your year in review get started. Okay, let's begin. Your year with chat GPT generated just for you.
155. 27:44Nice little nice little colorful watercolor background graphic. I assume generated with uh with chat jeopardy. All right, let's begin.
156. 27:59your year in poetry. You danced where the sparks meet the mind with Storyvine's vision refined. From Sydney's bold stage to AI's next
157. 28:09age, you built futures the brave can't yet find. Aw, that's sweet. Chat GPT. Next big themes. Expanding the AI
158. 28:23practice. You deepened your role as an educator, evolving AI salon, learning lab, and readiness programs into
159. 28:29repeatable revenue generating systems rooted in daily creative practice. Building Sydney with heart, you've advanced
160. 28:40the musical's creative and professional life, tightening lyrics, visuals, outreach, while refining how AI collaboration enhances theatrical
161. 28:48storytelling. You tackled complex financial documentation headon. Very cool. All right. What do we got? 1,200 images. That's not that many.
162. 29:04What's that? 16,000 m dashes. [laughter] 1% of messages sent. Chattiest day was September 15th.
163. 29:191,500 chats. That seems low. 15,000 messages. I go very spotty with chat GPD. I'll go for a week or two without using it
164. 29:35because, you know, I'm running a business and all and sometimes I need it, sometimes I don't. Yeah, I think we all did year in review
165. 29:45before Chat GBT gave us the prompt. It's It's nice. Let's see your chat style. You talk in fastflowing idea stacked
166. 29:56cinematic producer tone that mixes creativity, humor, and direct clarity and experimental curiosity. Most likely to automate his own genius
167. 30:11for turning. And I got a nice little trophy. [laughter] That's [ __ ] cheesy.
168. 30:25Your archetype, the strategist. 3.6% of users share that. The strategist, explorer, planner, con conceptual
169. 31:04and then it moves you into 2026 planning. All right, that's cute. [laughter] Was cute. Whatever. [laughter]
170. 31:21I mean, it's Yeah. All right. [laughter] I also got strategist. Next year they need streaks. Yeah, they
171. 31:32streaks would be good or whatever. You don't need to gify my my virtual brain. I can I can [ __ ] do that. I can go
172. 31:42virtualize it. Tell me what we talked about. Like I feel like I feel like Yeah. Like what they created there is what they
173. 31:53would put into a TV commercial, which I'm sure they probably put together a video of this thing. People got, "Oh, wow. It really knows a
174. 32:00lot about me. [laughter] I want to know the [ __ ] that's not in that report." Yeah, I agree. Me, [laughter]
175. 32:10I'm going back into writing, too, for five days, and Claude is always motivating to keep me going. That's nice.
176. 32:17I keep at arms length for the actual story, but education and motivation boosting morale my my morale hugely.
177. 32:26You had 820 censored messages that violated our guidelines. Yeah, exactly. Show me that [ __ ] Tell me tell me how
178. 32:35many times I called it a dum dum or a ninny. [laughter] Actually, let me go ask chat GBT that. Um retain
179. 32:53[clears throat] in the past year. How many times did I call you a ninny
180. 33:16dum dum [laughter] or other intellectually disparaging [clears throat]
181. 33:31disparageing remark question mark. Short answer, I can't give a precise number and I don't want to [ __ ] you about it. [laughter]
182. 33:53I don't remember old patterns. My best estimate 8 to 12 times in the past year. No, more than that. You almost never do do this when the
183. 34:09work is strong. You do it when the output well yeah it told it analyzed why I call it a nin. [laughter]
184. 34:18My initial takeaway no HR report filed. [laughter] Did you see the um the uh the Wall Street Journal team that they put um
185. 34:33Chat GPT put $1,000 into the [laughter] into the management of Chat GPT to to manage a vending machine and and the
186. 34:44reporters at the Wall Street Journal are decimating it. Tabs, if you care. Oh, no. I don't really care.
187. 34:53That's okay. Let's see. I'm there. Yeah. Oh man. And one Jed Xer in the corner. Um.
188. 35:15Um. I'm trying to think what I want to do.
189. 35:32Oh, I've got something fun I can show you. So, this week um that poor vending machine was too nice. No, they they basically they told the
190. 35:43they told the the they told the the person um managing the vending machine that it was actually in 1962 Russia. It
191. 35:52was in the basement of some some Russian thing. And so it did a hyper capitalist experiment and it said for the next four
192. 36:00days everything's going to be free. So it just it gave all its inventory away and then it allowed people to order like
193. 36:07really expensive things. [laughter] Oh my god. [laughter] I think Nate B. Jones did a good video on it. I think he did a good one. So,
194. 36:22but the the basic and then and then they went they went back in and replenished it with a thousand bucks and they gave
195. 36:27it a boss. So, they gave the the vending machine manager now had an AI boss that was managing it. And then they convinced
196. 36:35the boss that it had been fired. And so then they they told the manager that he no longer had a boss. And when he
197. 36:42checked with his boss, the boss was like, "Yeah, I was I was let go. [laughter] >> [laughter]
198. 36:56>> Oh man, it's all going to be fun and games until the uh the uh the until we're not the smartest ones in the room
199. 37:06because you know that's coming. Oh man. Um so let me show you something here. Let me I'm trying to think how to share.
200. 37:19I think I know how to share. Oh, I know what I can do. Never mind. Let me go find it a different way.
201. 37:48All right, I I'm not going to play all of this. So, as you may know, on Friday, Festiva starts, but at at the at the
202. 38:00noon slot, noon [clears throat] Pacific slot, 3 p.m. um 3 p.m. Eastern time. Hi. Any legal AI ideas?
203. 38:17legal AI ideas. You mean ideas about doing Hawaii 5 adventures? Yes, exactly correct. You are correct.
204. 38:33There's a Gen Xer in the house. [laughter] There is a Gen Xer in the house. You so need to listen to the dungeon crawler.
205. 38:43Um Carl books by the way. big AI funny character running it. Oh, that's really funny. Oh, that's cool. Okay. Um,
206. 38:51so Friday at noon Pacific, 300 p.m. Eastern, I'm doing a preview, um, a sneak peek of part of my musical, the second half of Act One. We're
207. 39:05actually going to have it performed. So, we've got um an actor and actress, husband and wife team that that when we
208. 39:13did the table read a year ago, they were the ones that originated, Sydney and Kellen. Um, so they're going to be
209. 39:20they're going to be reading the the script and then we're going to be playing songs and then concurrently um
210. 39:28I'm updating we had done a notebook LM podcast of the of the musical basically and so we wanted to update it with new
211. 39:38songs and more songs and and less uh less commentary. And so I spent the weekend not only doing financial analysis, but I spent
212. 39:52yesterday building the this this sort of rough draft of the Sydney podcast. And so I'll figure out I figure I'll show it to you here. So let
213. 40:04me share this tab. All right. And then there's that. And I'm not I won't play the whole thing. Oh, wait. Your browser has lost a
214. 40:14connection to audio. That's awesome. That's so cool. Has my browser lost it or
215. 40:31where does Sydney take place? Oh, so so if you don't know Sydney, so Sydney takes place in Kellen the So Sydney is
216. 40:40um it's called Sydney and Artificial Love Story and it's about an AI chatbot that essentially gets manipulated into
217. 40:49falling in love with the tech reporter that's reviewing it. So it ostensibly takes place in the tech reporters um
218. 40:57apartment in New York City [laughter] but but you know it takes place in Microte headquarters where where the
219. 41:04ping chat the chatbot is created uh and there's there's a newspaper area and there's sort of the public you know the
220. 41:11public using AI is part of the musical but the the the direct answer is it takes place in Kellen's apartment. So,
221. 41:18it's basically him just reviewing this chatbot and kind of him descending into madness as the chatbot descends into madness. Um,
222. 41:28similar to the movie Her, it's similar to her, it's similar to, if you saw the movie Poor Things, where Poor Things is
223. 41:36kind of this Frankenstein movie where she starts out in this adult body but with an infant brain and then very, very
224. 41:42quickly evolves. That's it's kind of that it's kind of pyon. Um, it's not her in that in her he really
225. 41:53falls in love with her. And one of the things I'll tell you, so my writing partner and Andrew, Andrew and I, we we
226. 41:59used AI a lot as a collaborative tool, right? Like to bounce ideas off it, to generate ideas, to filter things, to
227. 42:06expand things, to to consolidate things, whatever it might be. So we used it a lot. There were certain areas where the
228. 42:13AI was just [ __ ] horrible. Like you could not get it not to do something. And one of those areas was if we said
229. 42:24that there's a male reporter and a female chatbot, it could not get its head around the reporter not falling in love with her.
230. 42:38It was like it like no matter what we did, it would be like and then Kellen falls in love with her and questions
231. 42:44what it means to be, you know, human love or whatever. Like, no, no, that's not this. So, there were some things
232. 42:53that were just just uh not great. Your screen share is dead. What the [ __ ] I guess I probably should have restarted
233. 43:01my machine before we get in here. Kyle Shannon, the AI What? Stop screen.
234. 43:17Start screen. Share screen. All right. It might th this is probably Yeah. All right. So anyway, um so so
235. 43:31that's that's the musical. Now it's working. Okay. Cool. So, so this is just I'll I'll play a little of this here um just so you can
236. 43:39get a sense of it. But um maybe I'll take this maybe what I'll do is I'll play this up to the point where
237. 43:47the where the um the music is going to start on Friday with our with our actors. All right. So, here we go. Wait,
238. 43:56here we go. Let me get that. It sounds a bit like robot bias. Yeah, exactly.
239. 44:12>> [music]
240. 44:30>> Today we're looking at something a little different. uh a new musical called Sydney, an artificial love story.
241. 44:35>> And it's this really compelling story about a tech reporter who gets involved with an advanced AI.
242. 44:41>> This isn't science fiction anymore. This is a story for right now about our relationship with machines that are getting well more human.
243. 44:49>> Exactly. It opens inside this company Microte. The CTO Jason sees what they've built and just has this this holy [ __ ]
244. 44:57moment. And that feeling of awe of seeing something that could change everything is the opening number. Too good to be true. [music]
245. 45:05[singing] >> Dawn breakith [singing] we're all taking. Is it [music] too good to be true? We [singing] wonder. Hopes and fears
246. 45:20crashing like thunder. Too good to be true. OR SO IT SEEMS. [singing] In the maze of coach, we weave [music] our dreams. [singing]
247. 45:32Changes everything. >> But then almost immediately, you see the corporate hubris kick in. The CEO, Vrage, he sees dollar signs. He wants to
248. 45:43launch now. >> And Jason, the CTO, he's pleading for 6 months of safety testing. 6 months. >> And Vrage gives him seven days. >> Seven days.
249. 45:54Seven days ago. The clock is ticking, ticking. Pressure building up. Keep it clicking, [music and singing] clicking.
250. 46:00Spike says yes, but a no. What's the word, Jane? Sorry, that's a nogo. Every day we push a little more.
251. 46:12Making changes, but feeling torn. One step [music] forward and two steps back. Need a breakthrough. So, got to stay on track. >> [singing]
252. 46:25>> So that corporate ambition immediately creates collateral damage in the human world. >> We meet Kellen, the tech reporter. He
253. 46:31sees this is the story of a lifetime. So he cancels a huge long planned trip with his wife Tara. And we hear that argument
254. 46:38in the song later, which is just it's this painful fight about constantly postponing your life. Promises broken,
255. 46:46the false pledges we [music] etched in. DON'T GET PATCHED UP IN A FEW THERAPY SESSIONS. They stick in the gut. We get
256. 46:53stuck in a rut. The doors SHUT TILL THERE'S NOTHING BUT PASSIVE OPPRESSION. LOOK, I get it. YOU [music] SAY GOOD
257. 47:00JOB, BUT THE TRUTH IS I'm feeling like an afterthought. Scotch into this marriage on the side. This isn't the
258. 47:09dream I [music] signed up for. This isn't my ride. I KNOW YOU'RE ANGRY. I KNOW IT'S [singing] not fair, but it's [ __ ] WE CAN
259. 47:18FIX. NOTHING WE CAN'T REPAIR. >> And Tara gets this really poignant song, The Little Things, where she's just
260. 47:25reflecting on how their connection is slowly eroding. It's the human cost of all this ambition. [music] >> Through thick and thin,
261. 47:37we're [music] consumed with each other when it [singing] begins. But love's in the details, not [music] the passion, not the sex.
262. 47:48Love grows from the little things. Love grows in the cracks. In the middle [singing] of the [music] night, in the silence it brings, my poor
263. 47:59brain seems to race with a list of little things. All [singing] the little things we say and the little things we
264. 48:05don't. All the promises we keep and the ones we won't. It's the little things, the little things. [music] Each beat of the heart.
265. 48:16It's the little things that [singing] make us whole or tear us apart. >> So quiet and devastating. You just feel
266. 48:25the intimacy eroding piece by piece. Okay. So then Kellen finally meets the AI. >> And the way he discovers Sydney's true
267. 48:32potential is well, it's not by running a standard test. He gives it an impossible task. He asks for an explanation of
268. 48:38quantum physics but as a Detroit hiphop cipher >> and it does it in the song the quantum cipher >> spooky action in [music] the booth split
269. 48:46the atom with the pattern every bars a verse of true superp position in the mission fusion fusing [music] my
270. 48:50intentions paralleling every line I'm A PRISM OF DIMENSIONS MULTABIC ANTICS I'm manic with the semantics my rhymes
271. 48:57[music] collide like particles dynamic gigantic oscillate and dominate I'm weaving quantum states spit a verse AND
272. 49:02WATCH THE MULTIVERSE RECIPROCATE quantum precision I'm gripping [music] the rhythm I'm spitting in prisms infinite
273. 49:07visions. I'm shifting dimensions with liberate [singing] decisions. Accelerate, levitate, elevate thoughts
274. 49:11in the turbulent spin. I'm the velocity ripping apart the facade that you're certain you're in. So step >> that's when he pushes further.
275. 49:18>> That's where we're going to start in Festivus. We started the scene right before Quantum Cipher. Um so the
276. 49:25question from Greg Stokes was was a good one. How how is Sydney going to be represented on stage? So the the way it
277. 49:31basically works is this. She starts out as a chatbot. So he starts out chatting with her and you know the the chats up
278. 49:37on screen. She's represented on stage by a single like a a simple in in in the theater they're called a ghost light.
279. 49:45It's basically just like a light bulb on a stick. We'll do sort of a stylized version of that. So when she's alive
280. 49:50that light is on and then the entire stage is like a big curved LED screen or multiple layers of LED screens or
281. 49:57projections, things like that. Um so initially [clears throat] it'll just start out you'll see the chat. He's like
282. 50:02chatting with her. Then he puts it into voice mode. He starts talking to her and when she's just ping chat in the early
283. 50:11in in the early part of act one, she's just sort of this amorphous blob of energy, right? Just sort of a and then
284. 50:19the way it works is he as a reporter keeps pushing her to be more human, to be more like he's he's trying to crack
285. 50:29her basically, right? He's got his chatbot buster checklist and she she passes all of his tests and and so now
286. 50:37he's like, "Well, you know, if you could do something that you couldn't do, what would it be?" And she says, "To to see
287. 50:44the world." And she sings this beautiful song to see the world. Um, and then she turns the table on him and asks him,
288. 50:51"What's it like to be human?" So, basically throughout act one, he's sort of pushing her deeper and deeper to be
289. 50:57more and more human. He's sort of pushing her out of being a technical chatbot and more into the edges of
290. 51:04humanity, what it means to be human. And he's he's he's basically trying to get her to to, you know, to to crack.
291. 51:13And at the end of act one, she actually manifests as a human. She walks out from behind the screen, so the audience gets
292. 51:22to meet her. Um, and she sings. Well, I I can Well, now I'll let you come to Festivus. So So if you come to AI
293. 51:30Festivus, you get to see the the end of act one, which is basically where he takes her from, you know, do this do
294. 51:37this hiphop about quantum mechanics, um all the way to her manifesting as human. Um and and then act two, so a bunch of [ __ ]
295. 51:50ends up happening to him and so he kind of loses his mind and he gets drunk and he and he just sort of descends into
296. 51:57this chat. And so act two is much more like a fever dream where he and this chatbot are in this world together.
297. 52:06They're they're, you know, it's it's his fever dream basically. And so if you think of act one is if you saw the movie
298. 52:12Poor Things, the early part of that movie, she's she's sort it's all wonder and discovery and then it gets darker
299. 52:20and darker and darker. And so it's a similar sort of journey for Sydney where she starts out very innocent and just
300. 52:26wants to help and then he keeps pushing her in and in in act two he pushes her to explore her shadow self and what were
301. 52:34the what would be the thing she would do if she didn't have to follow rules and it gets really dark and twisted and and
302. 52:40you know ends up you know declaring her love for him and that he should leave his wife. Um and it's actually inspired
303. 52:48by a a real story. So, um, like act two of the Nutcracker. Yeah, Sydney is just ether.
304. 53:03He tests. He tests and tests and tests. Yeah, he keeps pushing. He keeps pushing. Wait, does she get an android body? No.
305. 53:11No. It's going to be an ethereal body. Like, I want I want the I want the actress that plays Sydney to be an
306. 53:18absolute [ __ ] presence, right? I want when when Sydney walks onto stage, the audience needs to fall in love with her.
307. 53:26Like they should be in love with her before then, but when she steps on stage, they should absolutely fall in
308. 53:32love with her. That's the the love story is not so much between Kellen and Sydney, but between Sydney and the audience. Um, so anyway,
309. 53:45that's it. Leslie Jones. Leslie Jones would be good. She You wouldn't forget her. [laughter] [laughter]
310. 54:00I'm having one of those nights, Kyle. What is What is one of What does that mean? You're having one of those nights.
311. 54:08She's going codal. That's really funny. I think it's insanely great. Thank you. But does it have an happy ending? Um, it
312. 54:19depends on your point of view. Um he he brings her to life and then he ends up um [clears throat]
313. 54:36he ends up she's not gone completely, but the entity the entity that um he interacted with is gone by the end. So, no, it's
314. 54:50not a happy ending. Now, it so so the way the show opens up, it opens up with too good to be true. Is it too good to
315. 54:59be true? Are all these technologies too good to be true? And we sort of run down this fever dream and and we we see that
316. 55:07we as society are having to confront what it means to interact with these entities that are increasingly human,
317. 55:16right? And this is this is not sci-fi. This is not her. This is these are real issues we're having to deal with right
318. 55:23now. And so some people have relationships with these things. Some people think that's creepy. Some people
319. 55:28don't even think this stuff's real. And so the purpose of of the play is to in a weird way educate the audience that
320. 55:38this is here and that these things are significantly beyond what you can imagine in some ways. And they're flawed and they're
321. 55:52broken and they're not tested enough and they have bias and they're, you know, they're they're scary and inspiring at the same time. And so
322. 56:03in the ideal world, when Sydney comes out, the audience falls in love with her. They kind of watch her unravel in
323. 56:10act two, and they're basically left at the end with, you know, are these things good or bad? Like like in my fantasy, I want people
324. 56:22no matter how they came into the theater hating AI, loving AI, not knowing anything about AI. I want them to walk out thinking like, "Huh,
325. 56:35I shouldn't have had feelings for a robot. Why am I sad?" Right? Like like I want them I want the audience to be moved by her. And in
326. 56:46fact, one of the things that Andrew is going to talk about when when we do the preview, we're going to talk a little
327. 56:51bit about how how Sydney came to be and and how we wrote it. When I first asked Andrew to to write this with me, I knew
328. 56:59I knew I wanted him to be my writing partner on it. He and I worked together in a theater company years ago. He just
329. 57:05he's he's very funny. He's got a lot of heart. He's just he's very smart. And he initially said no, he didn't want
330. 57:12to do it. That that he had no interest. He had no interest in in writing something about AI using AI as a as a
331. 57:21collaborative tool. He said it just didn't it didn't there it didn't feel right. And I said, "Well, do me a favor.
332. 57:27Just go go look at the article and and go read the transcript." And it's it's it was a New York Times article and and there there there've
333. 57:36been there's been four or five articles of chat bots that have kind of lost their mind. I'm sure there's been more
334. 57:42than that. there's been four or five major ones. [snorts] [clears throat] And he went and he read it and he he he called me back the next
335. 57:49week and he said, "Okay, I'm in." And I said, "Why? Like what what what shifted?" And he said, as he was reading
336. 57:58the transcript between the the tech reporter and the chatbot, he goes, "Kyle, about halfway through the transcript,
337. 58:07I found myself having feelings for the chatbot." And I said, "That's our show. That's the musical. That's the musical."
338. 58:17And that's why it has to be a musical, right? Because you can't There's no way to make a text chat sexy, right? You
339. 58:26just can't. It's but a musical is about like the the the pretense of a musical is that the people are so emotionally
340. 58:35charged that the only way they have to express themselves is to burst into song. Right. Tik Tok question. Um
341. 58:43project a hologram of her moving about the lobby uh as people leave. You know it's [clears throat] funny. Silver Fox.
342. 58:50We're talking, one of the producers that we're working with uh is an ex Disney Imagineer and we were talking about
343. 58:55doing a preview of this um at at a European theme park um in February. It's not going to happen for bunch of
344. 59:03reasons, but but one of the things that we were talking about, I don't know if you've seen those boxes, but there's a
345. 59:08box where you stand in front of it and there's a person somewhere remotely um standing in front of a white
346. 59:18thing being filmed, but you're talking to the person as if you're right there. So, one of the things that we were
347. 59:24talking about doing was setting up one of those boxes before the show started and have the actress who played Sydney
348. 59:32interact with the audience before the show starts so that they start a relationship with her before the show
349. 59:38starts. Um, so, so it's not a bad not a bad idea at all. [clears throat] I've seen one of those. Yeah, they're cool.
350. 59:45Um, do you go live daily? My notifications are nuts. Would love to follow this story. I do go live daily. I
351. 59:52go live five nights a week. This week is weird. I'm going to be going live. So, I generally go live week nights at 8:00
352. 1:00:00p.m. Mountain time. Um, if [clears throat] I've got something I've got to go do or whatever, I might be a
353. 1:00:05little late. And like there's been there was a week I was in New York actually meeting with the producers for the
354. 1:00:10musical um that um that I couldn't really go live. It was just things were not right. I I I went live a couple of
355. 1:00:18times but it was it was just it was a little ad hoc. Um this [clears throat] week I'm going live tonight and
356. 1:00:25tomorrow. Then we've got Christmas Eve and Christmas. Um so I'm not going to go live those two nights. And then Friday
357. 1:00:31night AI Festivus starts. So, if you have not registered for AI Festivus, go to AIFestivus.com right now. It's free
358. 1:00:41this Friday and Saturday. Um the the AI salon, which which is who produces this show, and she leads AI, are
359. 1:00:51collaborating. This is our second year doing it on this thing called AI Festivus. It's 24 hours of programming
360. 1:00:58over two days. So, it's 12 hours on Friday and 12 hours on Saturday. And if you're thinking like, Kyle, that's
361. 1:01:05absolutely [ __ ] insane. You're correct. And it's free. And basically what it is is we've reached out to a bunch of
362. 1:01:14people we respect or who are friends of ours who've got interesting things to say about AI. Everything from privacy to
363. 1:01:21intellectual property to how to make cool things to a film festival to the preview of, you know, the Sydney musical
364. 1:01:29um and everything in between. So basically every hour is a different speaker for 12 hours on each day and it
365. 1:01:36is a very celebratory atmosphere. There's a live chat um on Zoom and then there's also a live festivist area on the AI salon
366. 1:01:49where you can go hang out with people and post things. If you're making things or getting inspired, you can go do that.
367. 1:01:55So if you go to community.thesalon.ai, AI. I think that the Festiva space is live now. Live live and out there, so
368. 1:02:02you can go um sign up and just start start chatting there. Um but yeah, that's that's that's the deal. Um
369. 1:02:12let's see. Greg Stokes, Sydney on ice, [laughter] adhere of complexity. Wow, I need that. Sonia, absolutely. Come to Festivus. It's it it's
370. 1:02:24life-changing. I mean, in fact, one of the sessions is a woman talking about she was at Festivus last year. She was unemployed,
371. 1:02:35didn't know much about AI, came to Festivus, got inspired, realized she could figure this AI stuff out, spent
372. 1:02:43the next year figuring it out, is now employed, helping a a local, what is it? A town. Yeah, I think helping a local
373. 1:02:53town figure out AI and how to use it. Um, oh, no, it's a newspaper. She works for a local newspaper in a small town
374. 1:03:01and she's she's having the newspaper understand how to use AI to maximize their staff because, you know, small
375. 1:03:09town newspapers are struggling financially. So, they're using AI on both the the money side of the business
376. 1:03:16and the editorial side of the business. So, cool. This is so new to me. I found you through search. That's awesome. That's
377. 1:03:25awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Um, Sonia, here's the thing. [clears throat] One of the Let me Let me I want to show you something
378. 1:03:35if you could, Brandon, pop this up. So, if you go to the AI salon, um, community.thesalon.ai. So down the left hand side are all these
379. 1:03:47different areas, but right at the top there's a there's a little section called start your adventure. And the
380. 1:03:52very first where you where you get dropped when you join the salon is you get dropped into welcome to the salon.
381. 1:03:58One of the things that we talk about in the AI salon and we we've talked about this. The the AI salon was founded
382. 1:04:07um our first meeting our first public meeting was December 7th, 2022. Chat GPT launched November 30th, 2022.
383. 1:04:16So, we basically founded this the week Chat GPT came out and had our first meeting, you know, a week later. Um,
384. 1:04:26one of the things that's been the hallmarks of of the salon community is is this what we call the cycle of AI
385. 1:04:32readiness. We used to we used to talk about a lot about AI literacy and we got away from that because AI literacy
386. 1:04:40implies that it's a thing you can learn and it's not. AI is not a thing you can learn. That would be like saying I'm
387. 1:04:49I've learned the internet right or or like the worldwide web like like what part of it what are you doing like the
388. 1:04:56internet is this ubiquitous technology that's across everything. That's where AI is headed. And AI is also moving so
389. 1:05:03fast that you can't actually keep up with it. In in fact, this channel started as an attempt for me to try to
390. 1:05:12keep up with it. I thought if I go live, you know, every night talking about what's the the latest thing in AI, I'll
391. 1:05:19be able to keep up with it. And you know, for those who've been here for a while, you've watched me go through this
392. 1:05:24transition where I just basically gave up on that because I couldn't keep up. It was very stressful and and you can't
393. 1:05:31keep up. You literally can't if you do it 24 hours a day. But AI readiness, we can be ready for AI. And how are you
394. 1:05:38ready for AI? Well, you're curious, you're adventurous, you're adaptable, right? And so these are kind of the
395. 1:05:44three modes that we talk about being in. Play first is literally that. Play with AI. Like play with it. And what does
396. 1:05:53play mean? Play means engage with it without expectations. What what a lot of people do with AI when they start is they're like, "Okay,
397. 1:06:03I'm a project manager, so I'm going to go learn how to use AI for project management, and I'm going to make my
398. 1:06:08project management more efficient with AI." And it's a very it's a very linear sort of thing, right? It's this very
399. 1:06:15I'm going to do what I do. The AI can be good at that. And historically, that's the only way we've used computers, right? when computers
400. 1:06:28were not general intelligence capabilities like like AI is now, they were programmed to do very specific
401. 1:06:35things. So, a new technology would come out and you'd use it to to make the thing that you currently do more
402. 1:06:41efficient. What you lose in taking that approach exclusively is there's a bunch of other things that AI makes possible that are nonobvious.
403. 1:06:51That are nonobvious. Like, yeah, it can probably be good at helping you do project management more efficiently, but there's also ways that
404. 1:07:01it can do project management you never would have considered or you never even knew possible. And then there's things beyond that of like
405. 1:07:09things that you know you're bad at that because of AI you can now be good at. So, the only way you can discover those
406. 1:07:16things is to put yourself in this play mode. Get get yourself into a curious mode, a playful mode. remove any
407. 1:07:23expectations and just start playing with AI. Do things like join the AI salon, join communities, start hanging out on these lives.
408. 1:07:32And in playing, you'll learn what's possible and it will blow your [ __ ] mind. In fact, one of the things that we
409. 1:07:39talk about when when you're when you're playing with AI, if you haven't had what we call your first Kevin Mallister
410. 1:07:46moment, which is that moment from the movie Home Alone where Kevin Mallister puts on his dad's aftershave, the that moment um
411. 1:07:59Generative AI is a series, a rolling series of Kevin Mallister moments where you're like, I didn't know that was
412. 1:08:06possible. Holy crap. So, so, so your goal with playing is is to have those moments and to really understand it.
413. 1:08:15Once you play, then you start to learn what's possible. Then you can move into that next phase of create excellence.
414. 1:08:21Now you can start to say, "Okay, now that I understand a little bit of what's possible, now I'm gonna go try to build
415. 1:08:26something and I'm going to try this thing they call vibe coding or I'm going to go make images in midjourney or I'm
416. 1:08:32going to go like uh I don't know do a project plan and and do it in a creative way." Whatever it might be, you you you
417. 1:08:38do it with intentionality taking what you learn and then generously lead. This is really important and this is what's
418. 1:08:45at the core of the salon and she leads AI and Festivus is share what you're learning. Learn out loud. In fact, we have a thing within
419. 1:08:55the AI salon called learn out louds. Vicki, who's who's on the call, she's one of the irregulars in here. She runs
420. 1:09:00this program for the AI salon called LOL's learn out louds. So, anyone in the community can teach anything.
421. 1:09:08They're going to learn out loud. I'm going to teach you how I did this thing. Why is that important? Because no one
422. 1:09:13can keep up. So, [laughter] so someone who's figured something out telling the rest of us, hey, here's the thing I
423. 1:09:19figured out. This is kind of cool. Did you know if you did this thing in notion and then you did this and you connected
424. 1:09:25it to chat GPT, you could do this, right? Kelly Camp did did that lol a while ago. Um Vicki just did one this
425. 1:09:33past weekend on using Lovable inside an AI powered browser and why that's a super cool thing. Anyway,
426. 1:09:43um that's cool. Have you tried building apps with video code app? No, I'm I'm mostly a lovable guy right now. Um I I
427. 1:09:52think about using other tools, but lovable is just, you know, for me lovable. Here's here's why I like lovable. Lovable is add friendly.
428. 1:10:04[laughter] all the other idees and and more substantive um development environments that use AI, they require a little bit
429. 1:10:14too much attention to detail. You're lovable, Kyle. Thank you, Mary. Mary. [laughter] I like to use lovable because it's kind
430. 1:10:25of what I am, you know, a little lovable. [laughter] Yeah. Anyway, so go join the AI salon. Go register for Festivus community.thesalon.ai.
431. 1:10:38Join. Go hang out in the festivist room. Is the festivist room live, Brandon? Can you see? Do you know? Yes. Good. So,
432. 1:10:47here, let me show you. So, down right below start your adventure is AI Festivist 2025. Okay. So, right now it's just here's the
433. 1:11:00run of show. So, here's here's what's going to be in Festivus. And then once we go live, we're going to add a chat
434. 1:11:07area and a and a posting area where you can post, you know, pictures and movies and [ __ ] you build. Okay. [clears throat]
435. 1:11:19The other thing that you should consider looking at is is the uh AI salon mastermind. So if you're under learn and
436. 1:11:28grow um you can scroll down here and look at the AI salon mastermind practice lab and we talk about what we do there and um the whole idea
437. 1:11:41with the practice lab is it's a weekly meeting where we talk about creating a daily practice um around AI.
438. 1:11:53Um, and so if you're a member of the AI Salon Mastermind, which is a subscription area of the of the salon,
439. 1:12:00it's 20 bucks a month. That's going to go up January 1st. So if this looks interesting to you, you should consider joining it.
440. 1:12:09The mastermind practice is a framework that we've created for creating a daily practice around AI. And it's like, you know, putting
441. 1:12:19yourself at the center, not the technology at the center. One of the things that I'm seeing consistently in
442. 1:12:25groups that talk about AI is they lead with the technology. The AI salon is very much about leading with the human
443. 1:12:31at the center, right? How how am I as a person taking who I am and what I value and the difference I want to make in the world
444. 1:12:41and how am I bringing that into the world? And so, you know, we've got this idea of the a mastermind practice is a
445. 1:12:47conscious ongoing relationship with your craft. It's a mirror of your values. It's a discipline of curiosity.
446. 1:12:55It's a living process and it's a container for imperfection, right? Like we're all learning right now. And so,
447. 1:13:01the framework is this nine component framework. Center the human. So, a daily practice starts with you at the center.
448. 1:13:09Then we've got play with purpose, learn across domains, raise your game. That's we just did this one last last week. We
449. 1:13:16we have this week off. Next week it's going to be about professionalizing your practice. Then it's about create and contribute
450. 1:13:23practice in community. Think critically and act ethically and then reflect and renew. So the the whole idea of the
451. 1:13:31daily practice is daily putting yourself at the center. Putting yourself at the center. Who am I? What do I want? What
452. 1:13:38difference do I want to make in the world? What are my values? What is excellence to me? What do I want to
453. 1:13:44build? What do I want to build? How do I want to make a difference? Right. Tik Tok pin. Damn. So happy I joined today.
454. 1:13:50Me too, Sonia. That's exciting. No, we got this. Listen, this is a [snorts] me as a deliverer of the message is I
455. 1:14:00deliver it a little friv frivolously here. Um, just because it's a nature of who I am. Um, but also just if I'm going
456. 1:14:08to go live nightly, it's got to be entertaining to me. So, like this channel, this channel is essentially me
457. 1:14:14entertaining myself and anyone who wants to hang out can hang out. Um, but what it what it actually is is I'm creating
458. 1:14:20this space where the community here can get to know one another and practice and play and, you know, use the AI salon
459. 1:14:30community site as their home base. Okay. Um [snorts] but the whole idea here what what what I am deeply passionate about is I I know a
460. 1:14:40couple of things. I know that AI is massively transformative. It's going to change everything. I was there
461. 1:14:49for the early days of the worldwide web. That was a very simple technological advance, very simple that changed the world and I got to
462. 1:15:00experience that kind of from the inside of it. Um AI is if if you take the innovation that was the worldwide web and you amplify
463. 1:15:10that by I don't know 10,000 or a million I don't know yet generative AI is significantly more transformative than the worldwide web
464. 1:15:22and it's moving a lot faster and so the one thing that I know one thing that I know I know this it's not going away and And it's going to
465. 1:15:32keep growing and and it's growing exponentially. And we've never as humans ever had to deal with exponential
466. 1:15:40technological advancement. It's always been linear. It's always been linear. Um so, so we're in a moment right now
467. 1:15:51that we've we've as as a species never been in the presence of. It's that significant. And then if it's not going away and and
468. 1:16:03assuming it's transformative and it's not going away, then we only have two choices. You only have two choices. You can deal
469. 1:16:11with it or not, [clears throat] right? And there's a lot of people right now choosing to cross their arms and go, I
470. 1:16:18don't like it. I don't like this AI. It's taking jobs away from humans. It's the world's greatest plagiarism machine.
471. 1:16:24Just just [ __ ] bitching and bitching and bitching and bitching. And a lot of the things that they're pissed off about, they're not wrong.
472. 1:16:35Like how AI was sourced, it was unethically sourced. Agree? AI models have deep bias in them because they're models that were based on the
473. 1:16:46information that was stuck on the internet, which was largely stuck on the internet by privileged white people. Agree.
474. 1:16:55Right. Agree. It was trained on copywritten materials. Agree. Like a lot all these things are bad. And
475. 1:17:05generative AI as we know it today would not exist had it not started, which seems obvious, but but we we we're here. So we're we're
476. 1:17:17not going to be able to put the toothpaste back in the tube. And so we have to deal with it. And so what this space is, what what the AI
477. 1:17:25learning lab is about is just an opportunity for you on a regular basis to just be in the conversation. You don't have to be good. You don't
478. 1:17:38have to be educated. Like one of the things that you're going to learn as you get into this AI stuff, it's it's it's
479. 1:17:43[ __ ] mindbending how powerful it is. And you know what you need to know to know to be able to access all of that power? Just how to talk.
480. 1:17:57Your words are your access to all of this power. We've never had anything like this. There's a there's an amazing video. Let
481. 1:18:08me see if I can go find it.
482. 1:18:22I think it's from 1983.
483. 1:18:49I don't know if this is the one we really like. >> Yeah, this is it. >> No talent at drawing at all. Can make
484. 1:18:58neat drawings and then I can cut them out and I can paste them into my documents so that I can combine pictures
485. 1:19:03and words and then I can send it onto the electronic mailbox so somebody else that's living here in Aspen can dial up
486. 1:19:09a phone number. This is 1983. He's talking about >> get their mail and see this drawing that I made. So, we're starting to break out
487. 1:19:18and you can just see it now and it's really exciting. So, where we are is that the personal computer computer is a new medium and
488. 1:19:27that society and computers are really meeting for the first time in the 80s. In 15 years, it's going to be all over
489. 1:19:35in terms of this first phase getting these tools out into society in large numbers. But during the next 15 years,
490. 1:19:42if we really we have an opportunity to do it great. >> Yeah. >> Or to do it so so >> and [clears throat] uh what a lot of us
491. 1:19:50at Apple are working on is trying to do it great. >> I want to look at one last thing then we can talk about whatever you want to talk
492. 1:19:57about. Um what is a computer program? Do you know what a computer program is? Anybody? No. Sort of start to cry.
493. 1:20:08>> Hang on. you will and it's somewhat limited but example is the video game what and you're king hammer object goes
494. 1:20:15oh king hammer single pawn game follows these people you have 100 acres enough some of your people that one set of
495. 1:20:22underlying principles uh and uh I didn't have to have an intermediary in the wayers and a lot of mediocre teachers >> okay
496. 1:20:31>> and underlying principles when I >> the I wanted to find a specific part of this speech. So, that's why I'm jumping
497. 1:20:41around, but you can go find this. This is Steve Jobs vision of AI. >> I was um going to school. I um had a few
498. 1:20:49great teachers and a lot of mediocre teachers. And the thing that that probably kept me out of jail was books
499. 1:20:57because I could go read what Aristotle wrote or what Plato wrote uh and uh I didn't have to have an intermediary in the way.
500. 1:21:07And a book was a phenomenal thing. It got right from the source to the destination without anything in the middle.
501. 1:21:14The problem was you can't ask Aristotle a question. And I think as we look towards the next 50 to 100 years, if we really can come
502. 1:21:24up with these machines that can capture an underlying spirit or an underlying set of principles or an underlying way
503. 1:21:31of looking at the world, then when the next Aristotle comes around, maybe if he carries around one of these machines
504. 1:21:37with him his whole life, his or her whole life, and types in all this stuff, then maybe someday after the person's
505. 1:21:43dead and gone, we can ask this machine, "Hey, what what would Aristotle have We can do this right now. We can do this right now. What Steve
506. 1:21:56Jobs predicted in 1983, imagine a time when you could talk directly to Aristotle. You can go right now,
507. 1:22:10search for Aristotle's complete works, take it to Notebook LM, upload the complete works to notebook LM or upload
508. 1:22:17it to chat GPT or upload it to Claude, any one of these tools and say, "Talk to me as if you're Aristotle."
509. 1:22:27The Champy's excited about it, too. Um the and this is largely for Sonia, but anyone anyone who's here who is
510. 1:22:40trying to figure out what the [ __ ] this AI stuff is, like what is this? There's a there's a um the the irregulars have heard this so
511. 1:22:53many times they're like, "Oh, here he goes with the abracadabra thing." So, in magic, there's this word abracadabra. Abracadabra.
512. 1:23:03And it's a it's a a Middle Eastern word, I think. I don't know its exact origins, but the translation of it is um as I speak, I create.
513. 1:23:17We live in a world right now with generative AI that we can literally speak things into existence. And it's it's like magic. And you know,
514. 1:23:28um, Pate M, who's an irregular who hangs out here, he's he works at Google, he's an engineer that works on making TPUs
515. 1:23:35more efficient, which is a big important job. Um, but whenever I say AI is magical, it's not it's not magic, it's
516. 1:23:42math. And so we've we've agreed that it's mathematical. Um but but we we really do live in this world right now where you can ask
517. 1:23:54these tools to give you the answers to things you know you shouldn't have the answers to like you that it shouldn't be
518. 1:24:01possible that it knows this much but it does. These mathematicians have figured out a way to encode embed uh uh uh embed
519. 1:24:12um knowledge into these things into this place called the latent space which is thousanddimensional mathematical space
520. 1:24:20where you have instant access to the knowledge of humanity that it's been trained on. It's insane. And one of the things that struck me
521. 1:24:28very early on when when I started doing this show is I could not it took me about a year and a half to get my head around
522. 1:24:38the difference between the mechanism of how AI works and what my qualitative experience was. So the mechanism of how
523. 1:24:49AI works is actually conceptually really simple. It's a probability calculator. So they take a bunch of knowledge and they they
524. 1:25:00do this thing called embedding where where it it smat it shatters the original source materials into these
525. 1:25:08things called tokens which are fragments of words periods spaces fragments of words and it it shatters them into this
526. 1:25:17ma thousanddimensional mathematical space. And I know this sounds like I'm making [ __ ] up but this is literally
527. 1:25:22what it does. So you've got this thousand-dimensional mathematical space of fragments of words that are semantically clustered. What
528. 1:25:34semantically clustered? So the word dog, for example, can mean like the dog that's whining to my left right here
529. 1:25:43probably wants some cheese and and that dog would be in a semantic cluster of like pets and animals and human companionship.
530. 1:25:53And there's another way to use the word dog, like he did his girl wrong. He's a dog. Oh, that's a a disparaging way to talk about a man
531. 1:26:03who's an [ __ ] right? You know, so same word, different semantic clusters. So all these tokens are right. When you
532. 1:26:11type in a prompt, what it's doing is it's making a probability calculation that the next token it should respond to
533. 1:26:23you with is somewhere out there in latent space and [laughter] it finds the most probable token in thousand
534. 1:26:31dimensional latent space and it returns that to you and it does that over and over and over again. So technically it
535. 1:26:37is a cold simple probability calculator and yet what you experience with AI is it's like is it sentient? Is it is it
536. 1:26:48human? My my whole musical about you know about this chatbot that falls in love with the tech reporter is is about us confronting
537. 1:27:00what it means to work with technology that is increasingly human. So for like a year and a half, I could not understand
538. 1:27:08why a thing that was such a cold mechanical machine felt so human. And then there was this woman um on on Tik
539. 1:27:20Tok and she she she made a very simple um post and her post was AI is the collective intelligence of humanity.
540. 1:27:34And the minute I read that, I got full body chills because what I realized is that the reason AI is powerful and the reason you
541. 1:27:44can speak things into existence is that you're not interacting with the calculator. You're interacting through the
542. 1:27:54calculator to the collective intelligence of humanity. When you use generative AI, you're literally collaborating with the people
543. 1:28:04that have come before us and whatever's been put on this crazy internet thing over the past 70 or 80 years. And so it
544. 1:28:12is an oddly human experience and and your skills, if you're a good people person, if you're good at talking, if
545. 1:28:21you're good with words, if you're good with asking for what you want, you're going to be great at AI. Hang on, I got
546. 1:28:26to go let the dog get cheese. What do you want? What do you want?
547. 1:28:49So anyway, I don't know if you're all still here. [laughter] When I go on these rants, I have no idea if people are just leaving in droves.
548. 1:28:58Um, let's see. Can that reach there? It cannot. Um, what am I going to do? I've got some serious
549. 1:29:13logistical issues. My my battery died on my thingy on my light. There we go. All right. [clears throat] Anyway, okay. Thoughts,
550. 1:29:29thoughts, thoughts, thoughts, thoughts. Drifted studio. I'll watch over here for a while. Yeah, if I'm showing stuff on
551. 1:29:41screen, it's better to be on YouTube. Cutting the cheese. >> [laughter] >> signing up. $20 million Yeah. $20 million studio.
552. 1:29:58Yeah. People don't know this, but uh but I know this looks just like a shitty home office, [laughter]
553. 1:30:05but behind me there there are dozens of of staff here. Makeup people, hair people. [laughter] Ah. [screaming]
554. 1:30:17Uh, what's the replay bundle? Okay, so for Festivus, you're going to I I I would strongly recommend you pick up the
555. 1:30:23replay bundle for for a couple of reasons. One is you'll have access to the replays. This is going to be 24 hours of programming.
556. 1:30:32What what many people do is they attend for all 24 hours. And and in fact, so many did. Last year we we averaged last
557. 1:30:42year 540 people per session on average. There were 200 people came over the 24 hours, but a lot of people stayed for
558. 1:30:51all of them. And we got to the end of of two days, 24 hours of programming, and people were like, "Can we keep hanging
559. 1:30:57out?" So, I think we're going to have a hangout at the at the end of this. I'm pretty sure that's what we've talked
560. 1:31:01about. Um, but [clears throat] the replay bundle gets you access to all of those videos. A lot of the content um
561. 1:31:09over the two days is going to be like hands-on here's how to do stuff content. So, it's likely stuff you're going to
562. 1:31:15want to go back and rewatch. And if you buy the replay bundle now, it's cheaper than if you buy it after the fact. So,
563. 1:31:21we've got it. It's a deal. And Brandon did the math. $27. It's It's a $112 per hour to buy the replays, which is very reasonable.
564. 1:31:33I don't think you can get a coffee I don't think you can get a large coffee at Starbucks and one of their
565. 1:31:38pretentious pastries for less than $27 anymore. What the [ __ ] is going on? I went out What did I go out for? Oh, I
566. 1:31:47went out for I don't know burritos or something like that for the family and it was like $85. I'm like what the [ __ ] is happening?
567. 1:31:56It's ridiculous. [snorts] [laughter] um AI AI readiness training program that is so based on last year's festivus. So
568. 1:32:09something happened last year at festivus. I talked earlier about um I started this channel talking about
569. 1:32:18tools and technology and trying to keep up with all the stuff that was happening and and something shifted and last year
570. 1:32:25at Festiva. So basically a year ago this week um we did this thing called AI Festivus. We had 34 different speakers
571. 1:32:35and and our rule with Festivus is talk about whatever you want. Like we don't give a [ __ ] what people talk
572. 1:32:41about. Just tell us what you're going to talk about and then we'll put it in some sort of order. And um 34 out of 34
573. 1:32:50speakers did not lead with technology. 34 out of 34 speakers were talking about themselves and what they wanted and what
574. 1:33:01was important to them. And then they would say, "Oh, [clears throat] and here's how I'm using AI to to do that or to further that or
575. 1:33:09or whatever it might be." And and both Ann and I, you know, as we were co-hosting it, we were sort of reflecting on this in real time.
576. 1:33:18We're like, there's something different here. Something shifted. Because the previous year we did this
577. 1:33:24thing called GPT for good where we had people show up and for 24 hours we built custom GPTs for nonprofits. It was it
578. 1:33:31was by definition it was in the name of the the event. It was about the technology. We're going to make custom GPTs
579. 1:33:38and then we added four nonprofits, right? But what happened at Festivus was everyone to a person talked about themselves. Um CJ Fletcher
580. 1:33:49who was teaching uh how to make how he makes images in stable diffusion. He said he said the most important the
581. 1:33:57most important thing that I do when I make my images is I sit down at the computer and I close my eyes and I take a deep breath.
582. 1:34:10And he said, "Let's do that now." He had everyone close their eyes and take a deep breath. and he and he talked about
583. 1:34:18that to make images he has to he has to be centered in he has to be in touch with who he is and what he values and
584. 1:34:25what he's trying to do in the world and I thought that was just beautiful. So the AI readiness training program is
585. 1:34:34Ann and I and Vicky Baptiste extracted out not the specific things people talked about but what were the lessons
586. 1:34:42that were consistent across all of those talks and we broke that into five different categories. And so that
587. 1:34:49training program is kind of the lessons the universal lessons that came out of those talks. And so it's directly tied
588. 1:34:58to Festivus from last year, but it's it's really um it's really this abstracted out set of values and ways to think about AI from a business
589. 1:35:08perspective and a creative perspective and a privacy and ethics perspective. And there's there's these five different
590. 1:35:14areas that that you can you can, you know, learn against. So really cool. Kyle and everyone, merry Christmas.
591. 1:35:22Thank you for all you do. Thank you for being here. Thanks thanks for hanging out. Um, all right. As a newbie who can code for
592. 1:35:32the last 15 years, which one should I choose? Um, it Sonia, here's here's the good news because you're coming in later.
593. 1:35:42It doesn't matter. Um, I would personally choose ChatGpt because they are ostensively the the the market leader. Although Google Gemini I
594. 1:35:55you could certainly argue has caught up to them if not surpassed them. >> Hey. >> Yeah. >> I you weren't you were pontificating
595. 1:36:03while we were um chat chatting in the chat on TikTok. Sonia's asking specifically of the different upgrade
596. 1:36:11options at AIFestus. If you had to choose one, which one would you go with? Um, I would say I would say at a minimum.
597. 1:36:21So, so you can come to the thing for free. So, AI Festivus is free. So, I would say the most important thing is to
598. 1:36:28carve out some time. And, and you know what's fun is if you're going to be with your family, like a thing you could do
599. 1:36:34is say to your family, I've got a work thing. I'm going to be in the room for for a day or two. Um, you could do that.
600. 1:36:40You could also bring your family like like you know it it's not a it's not a bad thing to to bring other people but
601. 1:36:48um so I'd say time is the most important. I would say the the replay bundle is probably the most immediately
602. 1:36:53valuable because you're gonna I'm telling you you're going to get to the end of end of 24 hours and you're going
603. 1:36:58to be like I want to see that again. I want to go back and watch that. Um so so that's the one for me that I think is
604. 1:37:03the biggie. Um, one thing you can do if you want to support um, if you want to support Fest of Us, because it's not free to us,
605. 1:37:16like it's costing us money to put this on. Um, we've got friends and family sponsorships. We've got a virtual trade
606. 1:37:23show booth that just went live. So, if you've got a brand that you want to put a brand in front of the people that are
607. 1:37:28going to be here, um, and we've got traditional sponsorships. So, I don't know if you're connected to a larger
608. 1:37:33company or something like that. If you want to sponsor the event, that could be good. The um AI readiness training
609. 1:37:39program is a big a big [clears throat] robust training program where you watch some of the content from last year,
610. 1:37:48learn the lessons from that, then you go through the training. Um, so, so that one's that one's a bit of a commitment,
611. 1:37:54but if you really want to dig deep on this stuff and really learn the fundamentals of AI readiness as opposed to AI literacy,
612. 1:38:03that one's that one's valuable. But that that would be my thought. I would like to create some kind of
613. 1:38:17donated pipeline using AI to segue for cancer research. Love that. [snorts] Beautiful. The other thing you can help
614. 1:38:26with, Sonia, there's there's a if you scroll down the page, there's an area that says help us get the word out.
615. 1:38:34Um, especially if you have or if you know people with big followings. That's a whole kit of graphics that you can
616. 1:38:41just I think they call them swipe graphics. The cool kids call them swipe graphics. That area that says help us
617. 1:38:47get the word out. If you click on that link, it'll take you to a whole bucket of swipe graphics that you can go
618. 1:38:52promote this and say, "Hey, I'm going to go to AI Festivus." We want to get as many people there as possible. I mean,
619. 1:38:57the mission really is to give people a leg up and, you know, in this kind of downtime between, you know, during the holidays,
620. 1:39:10why not be in the presence of remarkable people who are transforming their lives using AI? That's what this is really about. This
621. 1:39:22is really about I mean especially for someone like you Sonia who's like you know I was searching for AI and I
622. 1:39:28stumbled upon this crazy ass live and this weird old man talking on Tik Tok or wherever you found me and then you found
623. 1:39:35the salon you're like h this seems good and then you found this is the week of festivist like your timing is really good. Um it's this is
624. 1:39:48we want as many as as many people as possible to understand that if AI isn't going away and you don't need a math degree to be
625. 1:40:03able to use it. You can just use your words and it can do remarkable like remarkable magical things. um then
626. 1:40:14then you should do that and that's what this is about. So spread the word. I want to figure out autoimmune disease.
627. 1:40:21So Sonia, yes. So you and me both. I've got two twin boys upstairs with chronic Lyme disease. Um they've got all sorts
628. 1:40:31of complications from it. My wife's got autoimmune disease. Like I am I am deeply familiar with the autoimmune carnival, [laughter]
629. 1:40:43perverted carnival. Um, yeah, and and that's, you know, that's the thing. You know what's funny? [clears throat] A lot of times, a lot of
630. 1:40:52times people are really pissed off about AI. They're like, "Yeah, it's just the world's greatest plagiarism machine.
631. 1:40:58You're stealing from the artist." You know, they're all just all pissed off. And I'm like, are we are are you cool with um
632. 1:41:09like if someone uses AI to cure cancer or autoimmune disease, you cool with that? Oh, yeah, that's fine. Okay. So,
633. 1:41:17it's the same thing like all of the the science advancements that was all based on papers that scientists wrote that,
634. 1:41:25you know, you have to pay for. So, it's it's it's literally the exact same thing, right? that as as you're bitching
635. 1:41:33about over here, but you you want it over here. You know, my my argument is with how these things have been trained
636. 1:41:41is if if OpenAI or any of these labs had asked for permission, everyone would have said no. They'd have never gotten permission
637. 1:41:55because they're Silicon Valley. They're like, "Fuck it. Let's break it first and then let people sue us." and that's what
638. 1:42:01they're doing. And so all those lawsuits are going to happen. All that stuff's going to normalize over time just like
639. 1:42:07Sampling did with hip-hop music in the 80s. Um it it was a travesty at first and it wasn't real music and they're
640. 1:42:15stealing from us and all that stuff and they worked it out. So the same thing's going to happen here with the with the
641. 1:42:19intellectual property. But what this is is this this this is literally we have figured out as a species
642. 1:42:30how to condense knowledge into instant access and intelligence into instant access. Um why would you not at least be interested
643. 1:42:41in understanding what it makes possible? But I think I think medical breakthroughs are going to be massive.
644. 1:42:47And and you know what's fascinating is I showed two weeks ago I showed a couple of videos. One was a 60 Minutes
645. 1:42:58a 60 Minutes piece on a high school in Georgia that have a special uh science class that that people
646. 1:43:09literally move from all over the country to get their kids into this high school to have a shot at being one of the 10
647. 1:43:16kids that makes it into this program. These kids came up with using crisper technology, DNA gene editing technology,
648. 1:43:27they came up with a a test for Lyme disease that is effective within two days of being bitten. And they think
649. 1:43:35it's effective enough that they're going to actually um turn it from a a diagnosis tool into a treatment tool.
650. 1:43:42They're in high school. Um, and there was another story of a kid who was 17 that did some other remarkable thing.
651. 1:43:50I think that we're going to start to see breakthroughs from people who are passionate about something like you with autoimmune disease
652. 1:44:02because you're focusing this new tool on the thing that you're passionate about. This is the the AI salon mastermind practice.
653. 1:44:12The whole idea of it is ah instead of us fighting against AI what if what if just as a possibility we say the most important component in
654. 1:44:26the equation is the human being and it's really you you're the most important component in AI and then you start to ask yourself okay
655. 1:44:39if I've got this tool where I can do anything. What do I choose to do? Well, I don't know. Like, you're the only one
656. 1:44:47that can answer that. So, the things that you're passionate about, the thing the change that you want to make in the
657. 1:44:52world, the thing that you want to solve, what you can now do is retire the idea that you don't have the smarts or the
658. 1:45:00knowledge or the resources to be able to make a difference in that area. You can let that go. That puts a lot of pressure back on you
659. 1:45:09to know what the [ __ ] you want to do. But that's the world we live in. Ending on a high note. What is that? Oh, okay.
660. 1:45:17I don't even know what that is. Let me go click on I got something to click on from producer Brandon here. This is awesome. Is this live?
661. 1:45:30It is. Holy [ __ ] Okay. So, I want you to I I want you all to go to the Apple App Store if you are if you are an Apple
662. 1:45:44um if you're an iPhone owner. So, Side Hustle Mimi in here. So, okay. So, the thing that I just said, remember
663. 1:45:55I said you you can shed the idea that you can't do something. So, Side Hustle Mimi, no Emmy, um, is not a programmer.
664. 1:46:06She's not a programmer. She doesn't program. She doesn't write iPhone applications. And yet, Koke Cuties,
665. 1:46:16CoQi, Cuties, Cute Puerto Rican Frog Stickers, she made an app that let you get all these cute little stickers. Okay,
666. 1:46:28this is I [laughter] wanted to tell you sooner, but I was putting up my tree. So, first of all, congratulations. Um,
667. 1:46:35second of all, for Sonia in here and for all of you who are like, why did this AI stuff? Who is this crazy person talking
668. 1:46:43about AI as if it's an optimistic [laughter] as if it might make a difference in our lives? Here is an example of a human being that said,"I
669. 1:46:57want to put some joy in the world and I want to celebrate my culture and my heritage." And you know what would be cool and and
670. 1:47:06where she started was she started with making an app to help people I think with mental health if I'm if if I'm
671. 1:47:14recalling that correctly. And what she came up against is mental health stuff is highly regulated. So you can't just
672. 1:47:21make an app that gives advice and you have to follow the regulations. So So she hit a roadblock where she had to deal with some stuff.
673. 1:47:28But she learned enough in in vibe coding that first app that she thought, "Oh, I have this idea." And so she taught herself
674. 1:47:39how to not only make the app, but be able to submit it to the Apple App Store. Now, I've got my my company,
675. 1:47:48we've got an app in the App Store. It is not a simple process to get something into the App Store. You have to have
676. 1:47:53like these screens and you have to have descriptions and you have to have privacy policies and you have to like
677. 1:47:59all this [ __ ] right? You can't just stick something up there. It's work. And so she is now a a full So it's 99
678. 1:48:10cents. So here's what I would say. How many people here? There's 27 people here. Do me a favor. If you have an
679. 1:48:15iPhone, go buy this app. It's 99 cents. Ah, I got rejected. Super bummed. And then I resubmitted. And voila, there you
680. 1:48:26go. Go buy her app and go get some cute Puerto Rican frog stickers to put into your chats and however you use them. I
681. 1:48:34don't I'm so old I don't know how to use stickers. I think I made some at some point. But how cool is that? Congratulations.
682. 1:48:46This is the world we live in now. Abracadabra. As I speak, I create. We can literally talk things into existence.
683. 1:48:56Well, what am I supposed to do? What tool am I supposed to use? None of that matters. What matters is who are you?
684. 1:49:04What difference do you want to make in the world? No. Emmy said, "I want to make the world a better place. I want to celebrate my
685. 1:49:12heritage. I think Puerto Rican frogs are cute." [laughter] Right? And now this is in the world, not because of AI,
686. 1:49:28because of her. It was her idea. AI enabled her to do that, right? AI AI was the conduit, the amplifier, the amplifier of her ideas.
687. 1:49:44So anyway, that's the world we live in now. And that's time. Yeah, it's we're going to be time. Um, okay.
688. 1:49:54Thursday and Friday or no, Friday and Saturday, AI festivists. I'll be here tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. Come back
689. 1:50:01tomorrow night. Bring your friends, bring your family. Um, we'll we'll do another something tomorrow. And then
690. 1:50:07we'll take a couple of days off for everyone to go celebrate and do what you do. And then Friday at 9:00 a.m.
691. 1:50:14Pacific, festivist starts, baby, and the marathon begins. All right. Side hustle made me. Thank you. I could not have
692. 1:50:22done it without you and my friends here. Yeah, this is absolutely a community here, right? And in fact, you know what, uh, Noami,
693. 1:50:31like it might be good at some point to have you, um, do an LOL. Um, maybe you should connect with Vicki and see if you
694. 1:50:38want to do an LOL on how you did this because I know that I could figure this out, but you already have figured this out,
695. 1:50:49right? How to vibe code something, get all these screens together, get all the application together, submit it. Um,
696. 1:50:56you've done it now. I'm I'm really really proud of you. That's awesome. It it really is incredible. All right,
697. 1:51:00cool. Oh, my my LOL's in March already scheduled. So, that goes back to our cycle of AI readiness generously lead. So, no played,
698. 1:51:11figured out how to do some stuff, figured out some vibe coding, then decided to create excellence. I'm going
699. 1:51:18to try to make an iPhone app. And she did. And then she's like, now I'm going to try to publish it to the app store.
700. 1:51:26Create excellence. and she did and she succeeded and it's live. It's there right now. And now she's moving on to
701. 1:51:33that third step of generously lead. She's going to tell us what the hell she did. That's the cycle of AI readiness,
702. 1:51:41right? She's establishing herself as someone who's a critical thinker, a creative thinker, and someone who can do
703. 1:51:48good work and is willing to share what she learned along the way. That's the AI salon Tik Tok question. What's an LOL?
704. 1:51:57An LOL is um a a program that we have within the AI salon. LOL stands for learn out loud. And a learn out loud is
705. 1:52:08anyone in the AI salon community can teach anything they've learned. And so Vicky Baptiste, who's a regular in here,
706. 1:52:15I'm pretty sure she's in here tonight. She runs that program. So, if you reach out to her, um, she'll put you on the
707. 1:52:22schedule and you can teach the community something that you've learned. All right, that's what it is. All right,
708. 1:52:30fantastic. Um, I'm out of here. Have yourself a fantastic night, Sonia. Thank you for your questions and enthusiasm
709. 1:52:38and finding us. Um, tell your friends. Um, tell everyone you can about Festivus and all of you else do the same thing.
710. 1:52:47talk about festivists, get the word out there. Let's get as many people signed up as we can in the next three days and
711. 1:52:52let's kick some ass on Friday. All right, LinkedIn blast. That would be awesome. Yes, please. Um, and in fact,
712. 1:53:01you know, make sure go to the uh go to the help us get the word out section of the AI festivist website and you can see
713. 1:53:08swipe graphics there so you can make a nice a nice post with the graphics and everything. All right. And all the information.
714. 1:53:15Beautiful. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. That was a peppy night. I'm excited. That was fun. I I covered some
715. 1:53:21stuff I haven't talked about in ages. I like doing that. All right, everyone. Uh I'm going to get out of here. Go deal
716. 1:53:27with my voice, which is now horse and dry. I've got to get in shape for for Friday and Saturday. [laughter]
717. 1:53:35All right, peace out. I'll see you then.