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Show Notes

(00:03:15) - [First question] - His initial reaction to ChatGPT when it first launched

(00:07:08) - Prediction Machines; The impact price has on how much something is used by humans

(00:11:07) - The shift from steam powered factories to electric ones and the transition between the two in regards to systems and application solutions; Power and Prediction

(00:17:06) - Midpoints between a point solution and a systems solution and applications that are being built in the middle of them

(00:19:10) - What application, system, and point solutions feel like today in the world of AI

(00:27:03) - The transition from a world governed by rules to one by decisions

(00:30:58) - How the power of prediction moves us from a binary to a decimal framework

(00:34:48) - Ways power disruption will occur as we navigate the emerging AI frontier

(00:44:33) - Other functions like personalization that entrepreneurs should think about putting into their products and features

(00:47:18) - How we should be thinking about the generation of information and data

(00:51:32) - A future where technology either desimates or empowers specific industries

(00:54:16) - What he’s most excited and worried about given the emerging frontier of AI

(00:55:41) - The kindest thing anyone has ever done for him