Rebellious Thoughts #70 - 🤘 The Secret Conversations With My Smart Friends

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Today it’s going to be short…

It needs to be simple and impactful to hopefully push you to do something.

I’m going to share 4 conversations that took place in this last week…

#1 - My friend Al yesterday sent me this video - must watch - https://youtu.be/4MvGnmmP3c0 

I’ve been developing a robot for the last 12 months with a rad group of humans and did a short deep dive into humanoids… and what I knew 4 weeks ago about the limitations of humanoids has changed yet again - Ai is moving faster than I even expected and wrote about previously in my newsletters…

#2 - My friend Marcio said to me earlier this week “by the end of the year developers (computer programmers) will be 4 times as productive with Ai”…
Im like… a team of 10 can output that a team of 40 could do 12 months ago…
check https://manus.im/

How many other jobs will be like that by the end of the year?
How cool is it to think about it this way… not that you will reduce your team to 3 people 4 times as productive… but you will actually be able to do all the things you wanted to do without any extra resource or capital… the work of 40 with the 10 people you already have.

#3 - My friend Pablo shared with me thoughts around angel investors and VC firms assessing a startup, when in the past you had to raise to be able to develop the apps or software… you had an idea, maybe you tested it manually, and you needed capital to take it from say TRL3-4 to TRL 6-7…
in future, most ideas will be presented at TRL 7 and perhaps the capital needed is not for development and more for scale/market penetration/sales?

#4 - My friend Quinny goes “dude been developing an app on Poe.com but it took me ages to get it to do what I wanted it to” - by the way Quinny is not a computer programer - so just the fact that he is “developing” is already insane!!… but the fact that the effort and result don’t yet match suggest we are still a few steps away from conversation #3….

#5 my friends Gee, Petra and I were chatting about the education system and The Unrealistic Foundation (check it here) and how Ai augmentation is making us less critical in our thinking - have a look at this article:

Is it making us smarter in other ways? Does it even matter?

Anyway… short and sharp… play with Ai… lots… develop your own agents to replace you, solve problems you have never been able to solve before, talk at the dinner table with the kids about it, engage…. don’t let this happen to you make sure you happen to it.

Love
G

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