We do wish you well from our outpost of civilization in the neo-tropics. You too Bob, it was always a pleasure sitting in a conference room with minds that challenged us all to think outside our little boxes.

Like everyone I’ve been playing with AI and for the average Joe the AI’s are confusing and not very good. The idea of “prompt masters” which will likely have a half-life of about 6 minutes is just an example of a half baked technology. The fact that AI’s regularly do acid trips and halucinate responses that a 10 year old can see through is another. Such “tripping” undermines the good results.

Though it may not be ready, I wonder in awe at how steathily Microsoft got a tired old Bing browser onto my desktop a few weeks ago (me and a few million others who had sworn off crappy MS browsers after the Netscape wars of what seems like generations ago). Bing with AI is pretty annoying (it completely refuses to engage in healthy debate particularly when I call it an idiot) but the writing is on the wall (that we didn’t write this time) as you point out for all kinds of jobs and the way we all operate and how we use tech.

We get all kinds of people at the breakfast table of the Pura Vida Hotel – and we learn new things every day. 2 married deep space physicists from Los Alamos searching for dark matter (can you imagine their dinner conversation!), a NASA scientist working on the Space Station (no not this one, the next one which wont have a Russian docking facility), the first molecular biologist working on cracking the human genome years ago and many others.

One couple really stood out for me recently, professors at a well respected east coast US university (where a large number of students were killed with semi-automatic weapons some years ago). We were mutually bemoaning the confusion of their students in dealing with the AI change when they told me they had just received a directive from on high at the University. It was simply (and IMHO refreshingly) “embrace the technology!”. They explained to me that they had absolutely no idea what to do next but does it matter? Like the Ukranian people they are following a fearless leader, they were smart people and I know they will figure it out and help this next generation of fearless lunatics “embrace the technology.” And google search will go the way of buggy whips 🙂
Berni in Costa Rica

But there is much more silver to be had in the large scale development of high value services, high value entertainment, and high value fashion. And, of course, this silver will flow to the high value consultants, trainers, educators and coaches who will get the rest of us there. How will we find these opportunities? How fast will this happen? I’ll bet it’ll be exponentially faster than the industries that have grown up around the “Smart Phones” since the 2007 launch of the iPhone. Dave, you do know much about these opportunities. As a Super Angel, you’ve facilitated the coming to fruition of many of them.
I’ll also bet you’ll soon address these opportunities, many enabled by the “AI Exo-brains” that have now transitioned us, just like the “Smart Phone”, and its “apps” did in the last 16 years, but at an exponentially faster pace.

I also will bet that you’ll help us to use these new exponentially faster growing “AI Exo-brains” as a means to zero in on these opportunities, and quickly prepare for them.

Thank you, Dave!