Marshall McLuhan said that any new innovation tends to copy the way what it's replacing used to be done. So we've really got a look at instead of what you were saying is like the Uber for X type thing, there's lots of how do we rethink companies or successful companies? How do you rethink some of those things within AI first approach? Does there need to be this big bulky product or can there just be a sort of text input interface and then stuff happens on the backend? I'm sure there's a bunch of different things that will come out that will think, oh yeah, that is so obvious. How do I not even think of that? That will happen
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Show Notes:
- Ben’s journey into AI
- The importance of ease of use
- How AI will impact our lives
- Ben’s hackathon
- Balancing originality and usefulness
- Why Ben is wary of providing strategic advice
- Achieving ground-up change with AI
- Interaction between the AI industry and the governments
- How Ben wants AI to be used
- Following your curiosity
- Making the world more competitive
- MUCH more!