Ai Training Podcast

Mark Latimer
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  1. 02/12/2024

    Stepping Out of My Comfort Zone | Self Expression Night in North Port

    0:00 yeah all right tell some jokes these 0:03 have never been heard before okay Comics 0:07 do five minutes by the way okay I'll 0:09 give you one of these give me the light 0:11 I'll give you one of 0:13 these 0:17 okay already missing my guitar yeah 0:22 so wrote some of these jokes I'm just 0:24 going to read them off my phone if 0:26 that's okay you know sure no rules here 0:30 so a little uh little comedy instead of 0:33 music tonight feels a little bit like 0:37 entrepreneurship you see a gap in the 0:39 market and then give people something 0:41 they never 0:45 wanted as an entrepreneur I teach people 0:48 how to use artificial intelligence 0:51 that's my job you know AI or at least 0:55 for now until the robots take over my 0:59 job's probably first to 1:01 go what else we got uh I've been coming 1:04 to Northport here since I was two years 1:06 old so I don't remember that part but uh 1:09 certainly has changed a lot over the 1:11 years my parents have a house here about 1:14 two blocks away so there's no reason I'm 1:17 late for 1:20 these uh you know they say uh Northport 1:23 is um or Florida I should say is where 1:27 people come to retire I think 1:30 Northport is where the retired come to 1:33 retire even uh it's so peaceful that 1:36 even the mosquitoes seem to move a 1:38 little 1:40 slower so as you know I usually play 1:43 music at these open mics and uh I do 1:46 like a good joke you know something 1:49 about a good 1:51 joke really it's uh it's a lot like 1:53 music you know you hit the right note 1:56 and people smile and if you don't it's 2:00 more like 2:04 jazz I do miss my guitar I love to play 2:08 and sing and uh this is hard for me too 2:11 okay all 2:13 right uh growing up coming here uh we've 2:16 had some family traditions like we would 2:18 go down to the beach and my dad would 2:19 teach us a bit about uh you know 2:22 geography be like look there's the Gulf 2:25 of 2:26 Mexico and uh I would say you know it's 2:29 just the water he's like that's right go 2:32 playing it and don't talk to me for 3 2:35 hours little peace and 2:38 quiet and uh a little bit about the the 2:40 Northport Wildlife that's something to 2:43 see it's a little bit like uh retirees 2:46 version of the zoo you know the the old 2:49 alligators are snapping and uh you know 2:52 stay out of my property kind of thing 2:54 and uh the birds you know they remind me 2:57 of musicians and uh keep time a little 3:00 bit better than some uh at least some 3:02 that I know uh in the 3:06 end uh coming here telling jokes instead 3:08 of playing music is a little bit like 3:11 playing pickle ball with a tennis racket 3:14 uh it does get the job done but um 3:19 unfortunately uh you're just kind of 3:22 happy to be 3:24 there when it comes to the pace of life 3:27 here um I've traveled quite a bit 3:30 and it's a little different I do love 3:33 these open mics I love the variety the 3:36 talent it's always so much fun and uh 3:41 it's like this town is having a 3:43 leisurely stroll you know everything is 3:45 uh moving a little slower yeah and I 3:48 love 3:49 that 3:52 um these are all written today by the 3:55 way so I'm gonna skip to 4:00 a couple okay let's talk a little bit 4:03 about death you know yeah that's funny 4:06 yeah that's 4:08 hilarious death might not uh seem so bad 4:12 um the the dying part seems mildly 4:16 inconvenient but uh being dead oh that's 4:19 you know no bills to pay there you go 4:22 you don't have to worry about that like 4:24 bills what Bill oh Bill I'm going to go 4:28 haunt him on the golf course that's uh 4:31 that's all I have planned for 4:34 today imagine living forever oh that 4:38 would that would be the worst right that 4:41 that 300th 4:43 reunion oh Sally you're still 4:46 alive yeah they figured that out kill me 4:52 now ever stop to wonder why we're here 4:55 tonight a little uh little 4:57 self-expression a little fun this still 5:00 is the coolest place to be on a 5:03 Wednesday night in Northport and uh I 5:05 would like that bumper 5:08 sticker you know I'm uh I'm often maybe 5:12 like you your own worst critic after you 5:15 finish a performance you're like ah you 5:17 know that that part was good uh that 5:20 part was bad and uh 5:23 so in your in my head it's kind of like 5:26 you know I'm on America's Got Talent and 5:29 uh Simon cowl there is uh you know being 5:32 my own judge so you know for yourselves 5:35 don't take things too seriously and part 5:37 of the reason I did this tonight was to 5:40 uh challenge myself to step out of my 5:42 comfort zone I did standup comedy got to 5:46 be over a decade and on that show I 5:49 bombed miserably I was not prepared I 5:53 thought I knew everything and uh I 5:56 wanted to take a little bit different 5:57 approach today and just have some fun so 5:59 I appreciate your ears I appreciate you 6:02 guys listening and I'm just going to 6:04 finish off with saying 6:08 that life's a lot like jazz it's best 6:11 when you improvise yeah thank you thank 6:14 you thank you Mark great 6:17 job

  2. 02/12/2024

    Peak Performance with Anthony Trucks: Redefining Success, Overcoming Challenges, and Enriching Life

    Introduction and Guest Welcome 0:00 welcome ladies and gentlemen to the 0:01 podcast I have none other than the man 0:03 himself Anthony truck welcome Hey man 0:06 thank you for having me appreciate you 0:08 so much and the work that you do I'm 0:10 gonna I've got a bunch of questions 0:12 we'll see how much we get through so Getting to Know Anthony Trucks 0:13 we'll start with right off the top for 0:15 those that don't know you please share 0:17 who you are and what you do oh man who I 0:19 am and what I do I'm a man I'm a man of 0:21 faith I'm a man of God I'm a husband I'm 0:23 a father I'm a coach speaker I'm an 0:25 author I teach people how to do the dark 0:27 work so it can optimize their identity 0:29 for people performance and show up to 0:31 defining moments in her life with a dark 0:33 work mentality of I have done too much 0:36 work in the dark to lose the light so I 0:38 I deliver that message of the world 0:39 through coaching speaking Consulting 0:41 it's pretty awesome 0:43 amazing the the next question I have is 0:45 what do you love most about the work 0:47 that you do ah to be honest I'm genuine 0:50 people talk about all the time but I 0:51 genuinely love having the feeling of 0:52 going something I did that I experienced 0:54 that sucked like it was bad in life 0:56 right taught me a lesson I could pass on 0:58 that somebody could have great success 1:00 with and avoid the headache that I went 1:02 through or climb out of the hole they in 1:04 and that's the unique thing man to have 1:05 some of value the world I think we all 1:07 desire to be desired and so to have 1:09 something that's desirable is probably a 1:11 pretty good feeling and so and I can 1:12 deliver that to somebody and they have 1:13 some great result with it I love seeing 1:15 it to be honest and that's what 1:17 transitions and translates to income and 1:19 impact in a world so I'm not going to 1:20 lie and say I don't love that I can 1:21 actually make a career out of doing it 1:23 so it's a duality but genuinely like 1:25 it's something where I love the fact 1:26 that I get to do something in life that 1:28 helps people's lives 1:30 fantastic and I know you've got a I'm Overcoming Challenges and Embracing Discomfort 1:34 familiar with parts of your story but 1:37 what do you attribute to something maybe 1:39 you learned early in your career that 1:41 has made the biggest difference you're 1:42 not GNA die obviously you can die and 1:45 put it that way the meaning like when I 1:47 approach certain situations and I'm 1:48 deadly afraid of it but you're probably 1:49 not going to die doing this you're not 1:51 going to die making that phone call to 1:52 somebody filming that video getting that 1:54 workout in saying that thing making the 1:56 ass it's going to it's going to feel 1:58 painful but you're not going to die 1:59 doing that that and so that allows me to 2:01 go all right it can't be all too bad and 2:03 then what you do is you lean into 2:05 something I think life taught me that 2:06 pretty early on where there's things 2:08 that we're Desiring in life we want in 2:10 life but then the path to get in there 2:11 becomes just murky or gray or 2:14 uncomfortable and most people will give 2:16 up on the dream because of is Comfort it 2:18 takes to get it and so as a young kid 2:20 thankfully like in my teens I was able 2:22 to figure out that's just the path to 2:24 all success and so I've been able to 2:26 reapply that understanding to many ples 2:28 of my life in different stages to get 2:30 success that most people will never get 2:32 or it takes forever to get because I 2:33 just do it faster so I got no problem 2:36 falling on my face love that great 2:38 advice for everyone and the road to 2:40 success is often paved with all of these 2:42 things that people don't see so it's the 2:44 work that you do that you're that people 2:46 don't see that's yeah exactly mentors 2:50 yeah I get a lot of them how important 2:52 have mentors been in your career H it's 2:54 Paramount there's no way that I would 2:55 have the information I have without The Importance of Mentors 2:58 people giving me like the information of 3:00 what direction to go to learn it through 3:01 experience or to Garner it from people 3:03 who've gone through the experience and 3:05 can help me shortcut the path or we'll 3:06 call Bypass the dumb tax which is like 3:09 you do it on your own and you make the 3:11 mistake that somebody could have told 3:12 you to avoid so for me I I just look at 3:15 all the levels of my life from football 3:16 to business to speaking this whole 3:18 industry here I've always had people I 3:20 can ask questions of and interestingly 3:23 like most people they they won't do this 3:25 because I think one is an ego thing I 3:26 don't want to I'm self-made I don't want 3:28 someone to tell right which is like dumb 3:30 that's a dumb thing to me CU like oh I 3:31 was the highest level in the world in my 3:32 sport I saw a coach right it's not a bad 3:35 thing if you need to have that but then 3:37 two I think the mentorship allows me to 3:39 see things I didn't see that I I should 3:41 have moved towards or that can move you 3:44 because a lot of the things that we 3:45 don't know we don't know sit in that 3:46 bubble for a long time so you don't 3:49 drive towards you don't work towards you 3:50 don't even know what's there so mentors 3:52 they open your eyes to things you didn't 3:53 quite see and you go oh it's possible 3:55 and it reframes what you can do it 3:57 shapes your mind different it gives you 3:59 better hope hope and then from there you 4:01 can actually move in a direction of 4:02 where they're at without having to do 4:04 the same dumb things they did so you get 4:06 to do it faster and a lot here the thing 4:08 a lot of people realize this exists they 4:10 know you can get a mentor and a coach 4:11 but they're they go oh it's going to 4:13 cost money it's said yeah it's going to 4:15 cost you probably some money to pay for 4:17 what somebody had to pay for with more 4:19 than money and I'm willing to do that so 4:21 for me like I do invest in coaching I do 4:23 invest in mentors personally because at 4:25 the end of the day like I I know that 4:27 there's going to be some investment to 4:28 get my success I much rather it not be 4:30 time and if I can avoid time that's the 4:33 one thing that you can't put a price on 4:35 but I can put a price on the information 4:37 so I'm going to pay for the information 4:38 to be able to save me time I love that 4:41 mentors really are the accelerant to 4:43 getting to where you want to go what are 4:45 you most excited about right now I'm The Excitement of Family Life 4:47 excited about family man and we got 4:49 somebody doing some stuff on our house 4:50 we're getting the house fixed I was like 4:52 it's not fixed but upgraded so we can 4:53 like be here for a long time if that 4:55 makes sense yeah but man I'm excited 4:57 about watching my kids grow and do their 4:59 things I know work's fun and I I have a 5:01 blast in work I do and a lot of people 5:03 answer that question I'm sure with I'm 5:04 excited about this thing I'm launching 5:06 we got some great things launching I got 5:07 a a whole new company I'm building into 5:09 it's in a launch in March but for me 5:11 it's like I all those things are just I 5:13 guess they're vehicles to allow me to 5:15 have time with my family with my wife 5:17 with my kids to go watch them play 5:18 sports and do what they do all that 5:20 stuff is for me the blast so I'm excited 5:22 about living my life really it just 5:25 living my life great answer what Motivation and Living Life to the Fullest 5:28 motivates you getting to the end of my 5:30 days and and making sure I've done what 5:32 I was supposed to do while I was here 5:34 and I don't know what that is I don't 5:35 know if I'll ever know what it is until 5:36 you actually leave the planet and you're 5:37 off in the next stage but for me what 5:39 motivates me is one making sure that I 5:41 don't waste the gifts given but two I 5:44 find like they're like I look at us 5:46 metaphorically like teacups there's the 5:48 potential to have a full cup of tea but 5:50 a lot of us live life with drips and 5:51 drops in the bottom of the of the cup 5:54 and I don't think it's a way to live 5:55 life I think that the potential is there 5:57 to have a full cup fill the cup up man 6:00 go do things go see things go try stuff 6:02 expand out see what's possible I don't 6:04 think enough people do that I think for 6:06 me what what I look like is life is I 6:08 want to make sure that I'm building into 6:10 something that gives me this complete 6:12 sense of fulfillment as I build into it 6:14 fill your cup great advice do a bunch of 6:17 crazy things see what's out there live 6:19 life excellent advice what's your The Role of Leadership and Congruence 6:22 biggest challenge as a leader biggest 6:25 challenge man you know what it is to be 6:27 honest it's living what you preach it's 6:29 always a hard thing I'm not saying that 6:31 it's I don't do and it's ha

  3. 02/09/2024

    Embracing the Power of Generative AI with Kieran Gilmurray

    Introduction and Background 0:00 without further Ado for those that haven't been formally introduced why don't you give yourself a a warm 0:06 introduction um it's not often you get to introduce yourself warmly or otherwise so happy to look my name is 0:12 Kieran I live in Ireland I've been in the business technology space for about 30 years thus aging myself immediately 0:20 Mark but I've been there done that seen that there's very few Technologies I haven't come across over the years but 0:26 it's always fascinating to watch them appear and disappear I've passionate about education I'm an ex-teacher 0:32 believe it or not for many years ago not many people know that and then I've spent decades as a developer as a 0:38 consultant as a head of data science and process Excellence as a leader of intelligent automation I'm fascinated by 0:46 what technology can do for business can't imagine being in any other space 0:51 imagine doing something that didn't change every day my goodness we would be bored but I'm not excited for technology 0:58 sake I'm excited by what technology can do in the world and by goodness the technologies that we C have today can 1:05 allow businesses and society and governments and everyone else in between to do amazing things so I wake up every 1:12 single day with a smile in my face knowing that I'm going to see and learn do something different every single day 1:19 and Mark long may that continue Ken I appreciate you and I'm excited to to dig 1:25 into all of these things that you've learned over the years reading your a little sound bite from one of your Early Experiences with Technology 1:31 YouTube videos in 2000 you built a robot tell me a bit about that because that 1:36 was pre RPA what'd you build yeah it's funny now isn't it the multi-billion pound 1:44 industry that it's become having been packaged beautifully existed for years 1:49 before maybe not the same guys but if you want to call it screen scraping robots customer relationship management 1:55 with workflow built into their case management workflow all these things created decades ago go I suppose the One 2:01 Thing Mark people have hired me for over the years is my foresight and in 2000 people weren't even talking about robots 2:08 which is slightly odd for me back in the day but I created Solly the robot I was working for a legal firm in Ireland and Creating Solly the Robot 2:16 what you would see in the law firm was that there was a lot of things that are the same I know if you talk to a lawyer 2:21 they might talk about how they handcraft the law how their brain comes into so many things and genuinely does if you 2:27 ever get an opportunity h a great lawyer a great accountant a great tax burst knows things you need for your business 2:34 but the number of things that were the same were phenomenal when you broke the process down so when you're purchasing a 2:41 property or remortgaging a property someone needs to give you instructions once you've got instructions there's 2:47 obvious next steps once you've passed those next steps there's a contract stage once you've done the contract 2:53 stage there's a ass signing and whatever mortgage stage all the same so I created 2:59 a Rob robot that basically the soon as you started putting stuff into the case management system the robot started to 3:06 assist or augment even back in the day which is not what 24 years ago so the moment you did something the robot went 3:12 I know what you want next it went away did a whole load of the work for you that meant as a legal professional you 3:19 weren't dealing with the necessary but very mundane steps in the process the 3:24 robot of the digital workflow was taking care of all of this and if you look at some of the things we were doing back in 3:29 the day it was quite Innovative so the moment you signed up to the law firm we sent you a bill we sent an email telling 3:36 you where you were at with your case you could log in online you could interact with the robot you could interact bilingually or multilingually on the 3:43 website the robot would send emails updating you throughout the progress of the case what it would do is also 3:49 collect the information on all of the work that you were doing so when you as a lawyer paralal or legal professional 3:55 came in the next morning it had prepared your entire work load for the day and if 4:01 you were off and something didn't happen so that things didn't get stuck in the process it alerted your supervisor or 4:07 your manager but the really interesting bit on top of that which started part of my career was the analytics piece all of The Power of Data Analytics 4:14 a sudden not only could you see the automation freeing lawyers to spend more time with customers or to do more work 4:20 essentially for higher productivity you also seen a lot of date analytics coming out because the role book could start to 4:26 go through numbers of cases per day numbers of transac particular stages how 4:31 long lawyers or legal professionals were taking to do things and it wasn't to catch them out it was very much to give 4:36 them the analytics so the business could see the number of Staff the amount of workflow the times to take things done 4:43 who was better and who was worse at something so it could provide training to start to create a high performance 4:48 environment and that business Grew From I think when I started it was about 20 people it grew to over 200 and something 4:54 people which isn't very big internationally but from a law firm perspective in the jurisdiction that it 5:00 was in it was the biggest Law Firm by none within a very short period of time 5:05 which shows you adopting the right technology with the right professional allows you to do far more than just a 5:12 professional being there by themselves for sure and uh a lot of unique kind of The Role of Business Leaders in Tech Adoption 5:19 qualities to that that particular situation I feel like the business owner themselves has to be somewhat Forward 5:25 Thinking to agree to make these changes they absolutely do it's it's the the 5:31 horrible ugly truth Mark of why businesses don't transform is down to 5:36 the word people if you want to change you can change we put all the technology 5:42 in the world for decades yes maybe it's not as good as it is now but with of all the technology we have needed to 5:49 digitally transform for three or four different decades I was fortunate to 5:54 work for a business leader who absolutely adored the impact that technology could have 6:00 he also recognized he happened to be he that it wasn't just about the technology but if you give great people great 6:06 technology you can do even greater things but I do remember I I pretty much had a blank check because everything 6:13 that I was doing I made sure there was a business case put around it there was an outcome it was focused on delivering what the strategy was too many IT 6:21 projects I have seen are vanity projects in other words it's very interesting for the IT professional to do it but it does 6:27 nothing for the business so I had to build that element of trust in with the business leader to show that everything 6:32 we were doing worked and then there was a heck of a lot of other work done outside of it around the promotion 6:38 around the selling around the education around the training I call a massive change management plan to get people 6:44 into the mindset that we weren't replacing them with robots or actually were augmenting them to allow them to 6:50 achieve more and build more which ultimately resulted more money for the lawyer but to deliver happier better 6:56 quality service for all the clients which oddly enough resulted in less work for all the lawyers in the law firm 7:02 because clients weren't complaining I remember in the bottom of an email I was looking for X amount of pounds and I 7:08 also wrote and had like $1 million in a brown bag for a bit of fun as well to which I got absolute vukan of everything 7:14 apart from the BR bag in the million dollars but thanks for trying so I was trusted but maybe not up to a point 7:21 amazing it's was lovely to get a blank check that you can do amazing things with but you have to earn that oh I got 7:27 to put it out there blank checks love it tell me with the Year we're right in the beginning now what are you excited about The Excitement for the Future of Tech 7:36 uh as I said a little bit earlier on Mark I have watched technology over the years so I've been through the year 2000 7:42 three or four different recessions through Erp through RPA and intelligent 7:47 automation through Cloud you name it I've been there as I said I I worked as a data science head of data science for 7:54 13 years but the one thing that excites me continues to be data analytics which I talked started back in the day when I 8:01 started my it career in the '90s I've been fascinated by data and fascinated by what people can do with the datea in 8:07 terms of decision insight to allow them to make far better decisions now on top The Impact of Generative AI 8:13 of that boy am I excited about generative Ai and it's not from the everybody's talking about a point of 8:19 view and therefore jumping on the bandwagon point of view I had seen chat GPT and a couple of others because you 8:25 follow Google you follow the trends you follow their their research groups but before November last year and you were 8:30 starting to go oh my goodness that's just phenomenal you'll remember back in the day you were designing narrow AI so 8:36 in other words we were do

  4. 02/09/2024

    Ai Insights: Hailey Wilson, Fairy Godmother of AI

    Introduction and Guest Welcome 0:00 welcome ladies and gentlemen to the AI training podcast I have a very special 0:05 guest today this is Haley Wilson the Fairy Godmother of AI amazing Name by 0:11 the way welcome to the show thank you I'm so glad to be here go ahead I was 0:16 just gonna say I love the the prop I always like to see the the wand come out I'm very serious about being a fairy 0:22 godmother and I have you ever known a fairy godmother who doesn't have a wand I'm Legit I actually picked this up at 0:28 the marketing AI in makon conference last week last summer 0:33 so it does have its roots in in AI amazing so happy to have you on the show 0:39 and really looking forward to learning from you and having just a fun 0:44 conversation maybe for those who haven't visited y on LinkedIn yet why don't you Guest Background and Journey into AI 0:49 give yourself a little bit of a introduction on who you are and what you do yeah wonderful thanks again for 0:56 having me here I came up with the term of fairy godmother of AI because I felt 1:01 that it best represented what I do for the past year I've been heavily involved 1:08 with building AI content and AI communities I've I actually started my 1:14 own business in November of 2022 having come from a very heavily 1:20 crisis Communications corporate Communications media background and so I have a long history of explaining the 1:28 technical and of in a little bit scary into snackable terms digestable things 1:34 that people can actually live with so for me going into communicating Ai and building that content out in the 1:41 communities was just the natural next step and in a really fun challenge so Building the AI Impact Community 1:47 what that has involved is at first I wanted to be kind of the a then I started looking around and seeing 1:53 fabulous people like you mark who are doing such a great job with doing that and educating and talking about real 2:00 practical applications for AI that I decided that the where I could actually 2:06 use my skill set best was in creating communities so we created we being my 2:12 whole Community it's not Haley Wilson's Community it's the impact Community AI 2:18 NPA we had our inaugural virtual event back in November and as a result we have 2:26 lots of different things going on which I'm hoping we can chat about in this podcast today but really at the end of 2:32 the day it's about building out an amazing community of humans so that they 2:38 can use this technology to empower not only their work but their lives so I'm 2:44 excited I'm just living a life it's pretty fun it's fun to be the Fairy Godmother amazing it's it's great to 2:50 have the Fairy Godmother of AI on the show and yeah let's talk a bit about that event so the event was I forget the Recap of the Inaugural AI Impact Event 2:58 dates exactly but it was a a multi-day event can you tell us a bit about the event and Lessons Learned oh my gosh it 3:05 was a 3-day virtual event it was November 7th through the 9th so I guess the very first lesson learned is that 3 3:11 days for a virtual event is just insanely long even by the the end of the first day I was like oh my gosh my I'm 3:18 the one putting this event on but my brain is already overloaded with information so for those of you who are 3:24 putting on Virtual events just word to the wise don't be overly ambitious try to get what you can in one day but the 3:31 event was pretty amazing because we had more than 50 speakers and we had 3:39 marketers we had neuroscientists we had philosophers it was really incredible 3:44 very diverse group of thinkers in a global audience as well as our speakers 3:52 and we did this all on a really Innovative platform called swap card and 3:58 actually all of that content is still available and I'll share a link on how they folks may want to access that 4:04 content there's well over 70 sessions and we really dove into not 4:10 only just the Practical applications for professionals and business owners but 4:16 also the philosophical and understanding like just because you can does that mean we should and impact is a big part of 4:24 our community is about doing our due diligence and having the tough conversations 4:30 this is probably rooted in my crisis Communications background and just 4:35 learning that the best disinfectant is sunlight so let's shine a light on the things that scare us let's shine a light 4:41 on the things that we really do need to talk about because AI like any tool is 4:47 value neutral you can do really wonderful things return voices back to 4:53 people who lost their voice return there's a a great example of a paraplegic who is able to walk now 4:59 because of use of AI a lot of amazing things we can do there's also some not 5:05 so great things so a big part of what we do is to have those discussions and not leave it into the The Importance of Open Discussions in AI 5:12 realm of the Sam alans in Congress and the EU although they certainly have their importance and their place but we 5:19 believe that we need to have a seat at that table as well and the best way to be heard Mark is by joining when numbers 5:27 right everyone has a seat at our table amazing it's pretty exciting yeah very 5:33 cool and sorry the Wi-Fi sometimes sticks a little especially right now the recording will probably be fine but just 5:40 wanted to let you know in case I freeze I can still hear you and they'll probably come out clean in the wash 5:46 let's let's talk a little bit about some of the speakers you had at the event I know there was a huge panel how many 5:54 people did you have sharing their wisdom oh my gosh we had I want to say we had 6:00 upwards of a little over 50 speakers total over the three days we had several 6:06 panels that were with marketers because we originally had a a pretty sophistic 6:13 like a pretty intense group of marketers who are really getting involved in Ai and the generative AI World in 6:19 particular when you think about its ability to create content and visuals the Marketing Group was particularly 6:26 engaged on generative AI ear on last year so we had folks like the founder of 6:34 lately AI Kate Bradley Sharice and she's one of my personal Heroes she's been 6:40 doing AI for at least a decade and lately has been around for I want to say 6:47 seven years but don't quote me on that and being able to hear from 6:52 her what it must feel like now just now everybody is starting to talk about Ai 6:57 and everyone calls themselves an AI expert so to have someone like Kate who really is one and who's been talking 7:04 about AI for a long time was really neat to get her insight and again all the all 7:11 of these interviews and these sessions are available still on the platform so we'll try to get maybe some of your 7:16 listeners on the platform so they can benefit from that that content we also 7:22 had folks like Kurt Dodie he also has a podcast he runs realm IQ he just 7:29 launched a new newsletter on substack and he really looks at working with 7:35 businesses on um implementing Ai and using it wisely and responsibly and he's 7:42 just he's a really interesting guy he has more than 30 years of branding experience in fact he is the one that 7:50 created our impact logo and our logo for our great debate series he's also a 7:57 former NBC executive so he has a lot of experience within the media 8:02 World content another person we had was isar mtis I hope I'm saying his name 8:08 right I remember and he's gosh he's a four-time CEO former Jet Pilot and one 8:16 of these people that if you missed your cup of coffee that day go have a conversation with esar and let Al do you 8:22 he's just so energizing and and exciting to talk to and has a really fantastic 8:28 insight and and that's the thing to me like the biggest takeaway and I don't think it's like a big surprise but it's 8:35 these people that's community of AI adopters is just phenomenal not only are 8:42 they're just really brilliant they also incredibly kind and even though I couldn't this is our very first year so 8:48 I couldn't pay any speakers and it was a little bit of a financial disaster on my 8:55 part but in terms of the community that we built and the content 9:01 that we were able to put out there to make it more accessible to people we we man we knocked it out of the park and so 9:06 I'll take it I'll take that Financial exposure any day if that means the kind of good that we can put back out there 9:13 but yeah you have 50 50 plus speakers from Germany Italy Switzerland the UK 9:21 India Australia Japan China all of course all out to the States Mexico I 9:28 think we also had an Argentinian and it's really truly a global effort and not a single one of 9:35 them charged me or charged impact to come in and share not only their time 9:41 their and their expertise the hours of work and research that they've had to 9:47 put in to gaining that expertise and they did that to do a good thing to get 9:53 this information out there just like what you're doing Mark me this is what we need to do reality is is in the next 9:59 2 to 3 years if you touch a computer whether it's at home or at work your 10:05 world is going to be a little different your workflows are going to change now it's not a question of 10:13 whether that transition will happen it's a question of how it will happen and you can either kind of come in for nice 10:20 landing where it's smooth and you have a long Runway and everybody's good you got your drinks you're happy everything's 10:27 phenomenal or or

  5. 02/09/2024

    Automating Success: Aaron Steele's Revolutionary Approach to Content Marketing and AI Efficiency

    Introduction and Guest Presentation 0:00 welcome ladies and gentlemen I have a fantastic guest today and I'm really excited to speak to Aaron once again 0:07 Aaron steel coming from all the way from Australia thanks for being here how's it 0:14 going amazing love to get a chance to chat again I felt like we've already 0:20 done a podcast together but really good to reconnect and excited to dig in I 0:26 love when guests have a chance to introduce themselves so why don't you 0:31 let people know what you do yeah hi my name is Aaron I I do a lot of things 0:37 guess the stuff that I'm probably most well known for online at least is I do a 0:44 lot of AI and automation guides specifically around content marketing 0:52 automations write pretty regularly on LinkedIn putting together guides basically on how to create content using 1:00 automated platforms such as zap here and plugging chat GPT and things like that into the process beyond that I also like 1:09 to have conversations like this I like to yeah meet new people and yeah just of 1:15 have chats guess personal life standard old married with two kids two cats and a 1:20 dog otherwise I'm pretty normal ordinary person outside of all this kind of stuff 1:26 yeah and happy to jump in and have a good conversation amazing amazing let's 1:32 let's Dive Right into what you're good at how did this all come to be I know you've been working on processes in Aaron's Journey into AI and Automation 1:38 general for a long time uh tell me a bit about the journey to where you are now 1:44 yeah so it goes back quite a way back in 2013 so my wife and I had moved to CRA The Birth of Aaron's Business 1:54 which is the you know the capital of Australia not Sydney and which is where she's from so it wasn't a a completly 2:00 random move we were we just come back from an overseas extended holiday and I 2:08 was wanting to set up my own business I was 23 at the time so I didn't really 2:14 know what I was doing not saying other 23y olds don't know what they're doing but I certainly didn't and I set up a a 2:22 business like an online directory which seemed like a good idea at the time um 2:28 it was for cleaning business I thought that that was made lots of sense and had it all planned out and 2:35 obviously that didn't really eventuate like I I I set up all these different systems to to have an automated workflow 2:43 so whenever someone submitted form on the website it would get passed through to to other systems and I pieced that 2:51 all together like zappier was pretty new at the time so I worked through how to 2:58 connect all that up using zap here and just figured it out as I went and ever since then I've The Power of Automation Platforms 3:05 always really enjoyed using automation platforms like zapia to connect things 3:10 and just make workflow automation really easy and I moved into a career and 3:16 business analysis not long after that and so that a lot of that has been involved with working through like Tech 3:24 problems with people like they've got a particular business problem and they need to 3:30 solve it with some kind of Technology solution and my my role has usually been to apply Technology Solutions to to 3:37 business problems that's a very high level summary of the last 10 years and the last couple years it's been ramping The Role of AI in Business Analysis 3:44 up especially with things like chat GPT and just getting involved in that and seeing how much we can get out of it 3:52 diving deeper than just write me a blog post kind of thing like actually seeing 3:58 what it can be used for to extract structured data out of unstructured text 4:03 and things like that which happy to get into that but it's yeah it's a really powerful tool which I think like where 4:09 we feel like it's already saturated because people and I are working with it all the time but we're still 4:16 like definitely like Front Runners like most people are not using it at all so 4:22 yeah it's really exciting time to to be involved in this kind of thing I like to 4:27 think that if you're spending any time with a tool you're already in the 1% and yeah if you're 4:35 spending time automating and gluing a couple tools together using things like 4:40 zapier then you're further down the line of probably a 1% of that group right 4:46 yeah we find ourselves in these bubbles of everyone I know talks about Ai and is 4:52 in the in the thick of it but for the most part these are a lot of new Concepts for people I imagine people The Importance of Automation in Social Media 5:00 listening let's talk about it at a high level what are some of the things the 5:06 problems that you've been able to solve using some tools to automate things for 5:13 people yeah sure I guess the I've primarily worked with CRM platforms The Role of CRM in Business 5:19 which if you're not aware is for anyone listening is customer relationship management whenever you are working with 5:26 a business and they have more than one client they probably have a CRM where 5:32 they keep all their customer data and usually like in I guess the not that 5:38 long ago like all the all these systems and it's still like this today like all the different platforms that a business 5:44 uses are not necessarily connected in like a meaningful way and so you might 5:51 have your accounting system in one part which you does the invoicing and you've got your your marketing platform in one 6:00 area and you got your emails in another area and your CRM and in another platform again and so all of these 6:06 different systems are not communicating with each other and so you've got to double handle triple quadruple handle 6:13 the work as you get the leads coming through and then you got to take that information out and put it in something 6:18 else work I've done primarily has been streamlining that process so that when 6:25 you say if you get a lead through your website that will automatically feed in 6:31 through to like the CRM it will like populate a lead database with 6:37 information about the lead it will send you know other triggers off to other parts of the business so it's taking 6:43 that one action that was usually used to be manual and spreading the the effects 6:48 of the automation through the other parts of the business so that it's yeah it's reducing the amount of time people 6:54 have to spend on what they're doing and that can be things like automating reporting and um all kinds of things um 7:01 yeah that that's the the CRM world has probably been my my biggest or rather 7:07 longest time spent I suppose and yeah just making sure that everything is actually connected and communicating 7:13 with each other which is which is huge yeah it makes makes a lot of sense 7:18 I know as far as solopreneurs listening that you're either hiring someone to do it as far as a task got to get done or 7:28 you're finding a system or process to make it happen for you 7:34 and people are generally more expensive over time not that there aren't place 7:40 for people in business but if someone's also having to do the same thing over and over again it's probably not the 7:46 most exciting part of their job y I see Automation and these kinds of processes 7:52 as really a win all around you can find 7:57 things that are a bit more creative or unique to a person's skill set that 8:02 maybe they're better suited for versus having them do something that a computer could do yeah that's right uh I see a 8:11 ton of value in in what you're doing and there are some unique things that you've been able to do why don't we jump into 8:18 some of that the last conversation we had you talked about taking a video 8:23 input and turning it into a few different things for a business and this 8:28 was this was extremely fascinating so maybe you want to explain what you were talking about yeah sure the process that 8:34 I've developed basically is a framework you could look The Power of Content Marketing Automation 8:40 at it with would be like a Content marketing Automation and so what I mean by that 8:46 is there is such a strong need for Content 8:52 marketing for basically anyone who's anyone out there these days like whether 8:57 you're an individual um whether you're a brand it is really the only way to 9:03 differentiate yourself in the marketplace these days is with your content and so recognizing that I saw a need in the 9:13 market um a little while ago for a way to lower or remove the barriers entry 9:21 for how people create that content because when you think about okay there's there's Facebook there's 9:28 Instagram real there's Tik Tok there's Pinterest there's Twitter or X there's 9:33 YouTube and there's so many platforms out there which people are on and and 9:41 should be on but it's overwhelming to go okay I'm just going to I just want I don't want to have to think about all 9:48 these different platforms I just want to focus on one and develop a following on that like I network with a lot of people 9:55 who just focus on LinkedIn and that's great but getting your organic traffic 10:01 sources from all the different platforms with such a significantly powerful tool 10:08 rather than just focusing on one area and the way that that i' I've done that is I've taken the transcript from one 10:15 video so say I I upload a video to the system which called engine which I've 10:20 developed end GN and I upload a video to that and that would take a transcription 10:28 from the video and and send that transcription through to chat GPT utilizing zapia for the proce

  6. 02/08/2024

    Mastering the Couch Market: AI, Entrepreneurship, and the Quest for the Perfect Sofa with Alex Back

    0:00 okay welcome ladies and gentlemen to the AI training podcast I have a very special guest today Alex back welcome 0:07 back what oh welcome back we're gonna have a blast together let's have some fun so Alex you are the CEO of couch.com 0:16 a fel.com with meaning amazing and 0:22 welcome to the show thank you so much I am very excited to be here I love your 0:28 podcast and to chat cool let's start from the top how did couch.com come to The Origin Story of Couch.com 0:37 be great question I started thinking I left my company my 0:43 former company apartment 2B which is an online furniture retail brand and I left 0:50 my company after about 13 years a year ago and I set off on a worldwide journey 0:56 to find myself and I traveled the world and and read every Business book I could 1:02 get my hands on my goal was simple to get out of the furniture 1:07 business but somebody told me about the fact that couch.com the URL was available and so that idea was like 1:14 percolating in my mind it was very expensive mind you like life savings type expensive but I started thinking 1:23 what I might be able to do with it and I had an aha moment when I was traveling 1:29 the streets of Oslo Norway where I realized that this could be something 1:35 much bigger and something that can scale a lot better than I had originally 1:40 thought and so I started pursuing it and ended up acquiring the domain and yeah 1:46 we're just building it up right now it's very exciting I have not been to Oslo I imagine the couches there are 1:53 beautiful and that's super cool yeah that's what I went there for the beautiful couches of 2:00 course the beautiful Scandinavian couches that's what they talk about so true this this business couch.com I know 2:08 you've you've had a chance you've been doing a bit of a podcast tour lately showing up on all the popular podcasts 2:15 so nice to have you here feel like I'm talking to a little bit of a a podcast celebrity so what is couch.com what are Understanding the Concept of Couch.com 2:23 you doing there yeah so couch.com is a place to find a couch it seems simple 2:30 enough but it sets out to it's a platform that sets out to answer the the 2:36 toughest question that consumers have when buying a new couch which is quite simply where the heck do I buy a new 2:43 couch nobody really knows even people in the industry friends of mine colleagues 2:50 we all joke about the fact that we ourselves don't really know where to buy great furniture and the reason is that 2:58 it's as much as it's saturated in some ways with direct consumer Brands these days that have popped up over the last 3:05 10 to 15 years it's very it's still very underrepresented in the online space the 3:10 furniture industry and the couch retail world the other thing that's really difficult is that people just generally 3:17 don't feel very comfortable buying a couch that's not a pun comfortable couch 3:23 they're not comfortable finding a comfortable couch and the reason is it's just something that no one really knows 3:30 very much about as a consumer it's very much like the car buying industry where 3:35 you know certain things and you've bought them before you use one every day but you don't really know about how the 3:41 business works so the goal of couch.com is to educate consumers to remove that 3:47 sort of veil of mystery if you will to make people feel comfortable and then 3:53 gather some information from them to point them in the right direction because there's a lot of information or 3:59 there's there are a lot of variables that go into a couch buying experience that people don't really expect when 4:05 they first set out sounds it's filled with all sorts of challenges and things 4:11 that an educated consumer can learn about couches at couch.com Great Name 4:16 love it you're an interesting Guy what's been one of your biggest Lessons Learned in entrepreneurship over the years for Entrepreneurship Lessons and Challenges 4:24 me whenever I get asked a question like that the first thing that comes to mind 4:29 is is that it's something you hear often it's it's don't listen to other people 4:35 too much and how that applied to my personal history is that with uh my 4:43 former company apartment tub we were very successful but it took a long time to achieve that very 4:49 scalable success that we did in the end and our trick was really taking the slow 4:55 and steady approach that's not smart strategy for every single business or 5:02 organization but for us it worked and as much as people tempted us and Industry 5:09 tempted us to supercharge it at certain points we really found a lot of comfort 5:17 and ultimately success in taking this slow and steady route so we saw others pop up around us that raised a ton of 5:24 money and came and went and there's so many difficulties and challenges in the furniture industry that really behooves 5:31 one to take their time and figure it out so take your time and don't necessarily listen to anybody else is advice that I 5:38 would give to some people in certain cases mine was one of them slow and steady wins the race don't listen to 5:46 everyone I like it yeah what would you say your biggest challenge is as a 5:52 leader well personally my biggest challenge as a leader is that I need everybody to like me and that's a very 5:59 difficult we're getting a little deep here Mark early this morning but but that but it 6:06 truly is my greatest sort of crutch it's an advantage because it really allows me 6:11 to find ways to empathize with people and connect with them because I inherently want or need them to connect 6:18 back with me so it could be great for communication but if someone's not doing 6:23 their job very well you can imagine that wanting to be their friend and wanting to wanting to like you is not exactly 6:31 the easiest hurdle to overcome because sometimes as a leader you have to give it to people straight and be the bad guy 6:38 so that is that's been my personal challenge the most and I think a lot of 6:44 people struggle with that too just the balance between being the sort of 6:50 amicable leader I just said like 19 times being this amicable or benevolent 6:56 leader or dictator as a CE and also just getting the job done so 7:02 that's always been the biggest challenge for me as a leader I think I can relate to that it's it's hard sometimes when 7:08 you want everyone to like you and your role or the the nature of what you do 7:15 you can always be a good gu I appreciate you sharing that when it comes to prioritizing there's probably no 7:22 shortage of things that you have to get done what helps you prioritize what's most important that's a tough one and 7:28 it's that is that's a challenge I think that every startup founder struggles 7:36 with as well prioritization is very difficult and to bring It full circle to 7:42 a comment I made a few minutes ago everybody's telling you to do certain things there's always there's a lot that 7:49 attracts you in different directions I listen to podcasts and read articles every single day and I get excited by 7:56 things or interested and I get nervous that I'm not doing something that I should be doing and at the end of the day sticking 8:05 to one's goals and priorities and what's the most important thing is really sort 8:11 of Paramount to one's success do I achieve it all the time not necessarily but my practice at not 8:19 listening to other people and just that sort of Mantra rolling through my brain 8:24 at all times helps me focus on what is most important even though the new and 8:29 shiny may be attracted me and I think that it relates a lot to just this concept and term AI it's something that 8:38 really has gotten in everybody's Minds it's like the thing that everybody feels 8:44 like they need to master they need to incorporate it into their everyday life and sometimes it makes sense and 8:50 sometimes it doesn't focusing on the most important thing to your business or to your personal life is still I think 8:55 the most important thing AI it's a tool right but it can only help to so such 9:02 degree that your priorities are your priorities and there is a definite case 9:07 of shiny object syndrome with so many new tools coming out let's talk a bit about AI how have you been able to The Role of AI in Couch.com 9:14 leverage it in your business there's a great question there's a frontend meaning user facing uh way to answer 9:22 that question and then there's backend but I'll start with the backend so our entire site thus far our strategy 9:29 couch.com was to get start with a Content first approach meaning before we 9:34 build the ultimate platform which is going to sort of be an advertising 9:40 platform for the furniture industry on a national scale where there's going to be local listings for furniture businesses 9:47 Mom and Pops and Regional chains alike brick and mortar and online the first thing we did was to 9:53 start with content making tons of Articles and videos and images to answer 9:58 some of the toughest questions that people have when buying a couch so that's what we've been focusing on in 10:03 the last six months and AI has assisted a lot in that we used AI to write a lot 10:10 of our articles or assist us in writing a lot of our articles I know it's taboo 10:16 to say that AI wrote everything it didn't we edited it heavily but we used AI a lot to gather information into one 10:22 place as far as our images in the furniture industry and interior design 10:28 it's just a sea of pretty images so much so that

  7. 02/08/2024

    Leading with AI: Fractional Leadership and Personalized Innovation with Adi Vaxman and Mark Latimer

    0:00 welcome ladies and gentlemen to the AI training podcast I am very excited about the show today I have an incredible 0:06 guest Addie vaxman head of Sheba Consulting a fractional leadership 0:12 Services practice out of New Jersey Sheba has been doing this for over 30 0:17 years including uh roles in the SE Suite helping startups and established 0:22 companies she's just incredible I'm so excited to have her on the show I could go on and on about her background and 0:29 history but I am going to let the interview do the heavy lifting here so thank you and welcome thank you so much 0:36 for having me Mark appreciate it this is going to be a lot of fun I know that we Understanding Fractional Leadership 0:42 connected recently through a mutual friend and your experience in fractional 0:47 leadership and AI I've got so many questions but maybe for to start for 0:52 those who don't know what is fractional leadership fractional leadership is really the practice of bringing in an 0:59 experien se- level executive on a part-time basis basically to Outsource 1:05 that rule but it's not traditional Outsourcing because that person is usually 100% involved in the business 1:12 they are just like any other SE Suite executive except they're doing this part time and they're usually holding several 1:18 clients so our fractual leaders usually have a load between three and five clients depending on the level of 1:24 Engagement it's a very costeffective model um we do Co chro and CTO 1:30 and it's a very cost- effective model because you get a lot of experience especially that comes with the fractional model because fractionals see 1:37 a lot of businesses rather than one or two or three that normal people in their careers see and you get someone witho 1:43 many years of experience you don't have to pay what you would otherwise otherwise an executive at the same rate 1:49 would cost you I don't know anywhere from 350 to 600,000 a year or something ridic like that amazing that's awesome Industries and Commonalities in Fractional Leadership 1:58 so I know you have a ton of EXP experience and I'm curious what industries do you tend to gravitate 2:05 towards we started out with the tech industry because both my partner and I come from the tech industry before we 2:11 started the company we were in the tech industry for several couple decades I'm 2:16 aging myself here and we expanded to several other Industries we currently 2:22 work obviously on Tech and anything tech software I think technology information and security we also work with a lot of 2:29 business services companies agencies marketing agencies market research agencies software development agencies 2:35 anything that's like a business service we work with Medical Practice groups that's been a niche that we've been in 2:42 for the past since 2019 so it's going on five years that have their unique 2:47 challenges and we also work with media publishing and some different types of 2:53 nonprofit just because of my kind of personal abilities to to take up causes 2:59 and run with them very cool and through this kind of 3:04 it sounds like quite a large mix of industries that you work with what tend to be the the commonalities between all Challenges and Solutions in Business Operations 3:10 these companies most of them are in some state of transition so they are either 3:16 growing or they have grown significantly they have some kind of a challenge they need help with something some of them 3:22 are coming to us because they've grown too fast and they really can't handle it and everything's falling apart so 3:28 unfortunately that's like the majority of them that are coming to us when things are falling apart and they're 3:34 drowning and a small minority the smart minority is coming to us before that 3:39 happens when they know that there's a change that needs to happen when they're looking to expand when they're looking to grow when they feel that some area of 3:46 the business isn't functioning correctly they feel that things are not being very efficient or that they can't have you 3:53 know they they don't have enough control over what's happening in the business and many business owners especially in a 3:59 lot of the industry that I mentioned are their talents are in their industry right they know how to be a doctor they 4:05 know how to be a lawyer they know how to be a marketing person they don't necessarily know or want to know or care 4:11 to deal with all the operations and the behind the scenes of running business and they're doing it because they don't 4:17 have a choice and it's taking up too much of their time and they're looking for someone they can really trust to do 4:24 that and be able to give that away and trust someone else and that's us got it AI Implementation in Business Operations 4:30 and as it relates to operations obviously over the last year especially AI has really taken hold of operations 4:38 what are some of the challenges that have come up with your clients in leveraging this technology since 4:44 November 2022 we've been we are all we're a very technological team in general we're all geek to put it plainly 4:51 so we love new technology whenever something new comes up we jump in and try to figure it out and that's what 4:56 happened in November 2022 when Chad GPT came out like there were earlier versions but they were not great like 5:04 we've been experimenting with AI tools a lot before November 2022 and they were 5:09 lame they just weren't very good so I we didn't find anything that we could really do with them and then November 5:16 2022 the first kind of public version of chadt came out we were on the waiting list for a long time we got in we got 5:23 super excited about what this thing can do and started reverse engineering it and figuring out what it can and cannot 5:29 do and immediately it was glaringly apparent that this tool can make a huge 5:36 difference uh for businesses and we've since then we've 5:41 gotten a lot of expertise in Ai and what I've learned is that people don't fully 5:48 understand the potential of what it can do for their businesses most people that even if they know about it which to me 5:53 it's very surprising that so many business owners and Business Leaders don't even know they may know it exists 5:59 but they've never even tried it they don't think it has anything to do with them or they're afraid of it or they just think about it as an afterthought 6:07 but those who do know about it mainly use it for writing for marketing for writing content and I think that's 6:15 probably about 30% of what we do with it maybe we do a lot of different things 6:20 with it that are not content creation and over the past year and it'll be year 6:26 and a half shortly we've been working with a lot of our clients who have also 6:32 been interested in jumping on this moving train and part of it was trying 6:38 to figure out how to implement AI in those businesses so that it will really 6:43 help us with things that we used to do before so we've always done business process implementation improving 6:49 business process and Automation and efficiency and and all of that and then 6:54 comes Ai and we're like constantly thinking of ways to use those tools to 7:00 take that step further or two steps further or 10 steps further and we've I 7:06 can give you some examples if that's something you're interested in yeah absolutely I was just going to ask if 30% is only and I think most people 7:14 think of tools like chat GPT as content creation right but it sounds like the 7:20 bulk of what you're helping companies with is other ways to to use AI can you 7:25 give us a couple examples I think the number one example on the biggest one is analysis just analysis and analyzing 7:33 data all kinds of data numbers and different data think about it as the 7:39 ability to take a bunch of databases with different data in them finding commonalities and be able to extract 7:45 insights from that data that would have taken a human many hours many days many weeks 7:52 many months to even be able to process all that data one example that we've done 8:00 sometime last year middle of last year so we worked with a large Medical Practice Group and they have several 8:05 offices we've used AI to analyze patient data so we stripped we did a few stages 8:10 we stripped the P the data off of anything identifying for HP compliance purposes and we basically used it as 8:17 statistical data we moved it to a different database and analyzed patient data to uncover all kinds of insight 8:23 about their patient behaviors about referrals about their marketing operation about what kind of procedures 8:31 patients tend to come in and do what procedures are more profitable lots and lots of both financial and patient 8:38 Behavior data at the end of the day we improveed this group's bottom line by 20% just by doing that we also helped 8:46 identify operational gaps that they've had and closed them we improved the patient journey in general by by doing a 8:53 implementing a lot of processes and we changed all the marketing practices based on the inside that we've gained by 9:00 implementing AI That's one example now are does are you using tools to do this AI Tools and Their Applications 9:08 type of thing outside of chat GPT yes I know chat GPT has capabilities like that 9:13 typically needs to be apid driven um are there any tools you can share that 9:19 people should investigate uh for analysis so we mostly use the chatu BT 9:25 API but we also use other tools and I think one of the one of

  8. 01/31/2024

    AI Revolution: Cory Warfield's Insights on Tech's Next Leap | AI Training Podcast with Mark Latimer

    How you doing I'm fantastic how are you doing very well thanks what's what's good today it's not too hot here in Rio and I'm GNA be finalizing my AI newsletter for tomorrow which it's been interesting trying to do one per week and get so much different info in there like on the one hand there's so much going on in the  world of AI on the other hand this will be the ninth episode in nine weeks and we feature four tools per episode so as you can imagine I'm now having to come up with like Beyond 30 getting closer to 40 tools and all the different tutorials that I do in prompts and everything I I do is relatively sporadic I really wanted to do more on Google Gemini but such interesting news on both sides of of that coin right now yeah it's I haven't also had a chance to explore G too much it seems like it's challenging with all the new tools coming out to to keep up right did you see what was in the news about Gemini depends on where you're reading but tell me what what did you find the big story was that the big demo that they showed was fabricated it wasn't real I didn't see that yeah so it's interesting on the one hand the demo looked incredible and I was getting ready to even do some reporting on it and then I started to see headlines a couple days afterwards and it was all fabricated and they showed fine print and they showed how they knew and and then Google admitted yeah it wasn't it wasn't exactly what it looked like they're like we can do all these things it just wasn't the actual demo that we showed so that was disconcerting and then their stock took a big hit like a 12% hit or something that day so that was very interesting but they've just got Gemini embedded in bard so if you go in a bar to play with it you're playing with Gemini and it's close to being awesome already but it's not good at all you know what I mean and then some guy on I think Tik Tok wait a minute everything that their cool demo said they could do chat GPT already does and does anyway and so he redid the demo but using chat GPT and he did it in real time and it actually worked well so I don't know it's interesting a lot of people are speculating apples about to release their AI beginning at 24 which would be interesting too yeah apple always does a good job with their ecosystem so it'll be interesting to see how that plays out the initial headlines I saw was that Gemini was like chat GPT killer and all of this stuff so it's news to me actually that it was a fabricated demo not surprising there's a lot on the line  to get demos right so I can see the the thinking behind wanting to do it that that way but when it does come out that it wasn't real you know obviously the the stock took a big hit but I'll tell you the company that broke that story was Tech crunch so like it doesn't get much bigger than that right there the the (03:16) crunch headline was Google Gemini demo fake so yeah as you can imagine that sent some Shock waves and pretty much every investor in the world is subscrib to Tech crunch that was interesting similarly did you see the news from Google D in their materials department so their AI using Google deep mind their AI identified two and a half million potential new components like compounds even elements and over a quarter million of them according to their AI could be simulated as crystals or created as crystals and so they believe that the the implications for 250,000 new building blocks of reality right can have massive implications for energy renewable energy 3D printing things like potentially 3D printing more human organs and ex exoskeleton type things so it's like that news was huge but then it turned out they're faking their demo on the Gemini and now people are like really fak all these new materials of building blocks of reality too so anyhow we'll see what happens with all that I don't count goof out ever yeah you lose a lot of credibility right when you fabricate something and yeah over time Google has built quite a good brand for themselves right like we use it every day now and now I'm more using chat GPT in replacement for Google I find myself going there to ask questions or do searches or doing things that I couldn't before it's interesting how maybe you've experienced too your behavior has shifted with the new tools oh big time when Chi pt3 came out people were calling it The Google killer and it's now Google's trying to flip the scrip now a year later and saying the  chaty PT killer but it took me all about a week of really playing chat G PT I start using the day came out like a week into and I was like wait now I understand why people would call it the Google killer and here's the real reason if I go to Google and ask it a question or give it a query it gives me sponsored (05:32) results and promoted results and then results based on things like SEO and sem that can be paid and that can be manipulated so I have to go through and discern what I think is right or wrong or what's real or fake and I have to scroll through and I'm getting bombarded with ads chat GPT I go ask the same query or the same question and it just gives me the answer I love that great no no websites no sponsored content no hey look at me over here in the sidebar and that to me was one of and you're absolutely right why would I use Google anymore if I can use chat GPT but what's interesting is now you're looking to wet Ai and some of these other AIS that can play really nicely with the Google Suite the G Suite which I love way more than Microsoft like people are like oh Microsoft co-pilot yeah it looks cool except for I don't use any Microsoft products and every Microsoft product I ever tried to suck really bad can you back up what tools were you using the which connects the the G Suite is that what you're talking about so I'm talking about Microsoft copilot and yeah every people that use Microsoft are really all about this co-pilot so i' played with it and I see the implications and it would be really cool except for I know e Microsoft because all of their products suck and as a tech entrepreneur I've savored G Suite since I started my first company in the Google everything I love Google Sheets I love Google dots I love Google I just love the Google cloud and the whole experience so duet AI is one of the ones that's doing exactly what Microsoft co-pilot does for Microsoft but they're doing itol so you go on there and you say I need a 10 page investor pitch deck for a startup using generative AI in music and boom it asking questions if you want me to do market research me to create a logo you have one it can pull you can literally be like here there's in in the G in the G Suite there's a file that says logo PNG there's a file that says brand guide there's a file that says market research go through all of those and then design the deck and it'll just do it it's wow this is what we're going into 2024 with but I've also been saying I think 2023 to me was the year of AI and I think and I could be wrong but from my perspective 2024 will be the year of smart robots and obviously it will be AI that makes them smart but what I see with the robots meet AI space right now is pretty insane amazing I know we haven't really started but we're already talking about some really interesting stuff here so Corey welcome to the show this is a brand new podcast we've done a couple interviews now and really appreciate you making some time we're calling this the AI TR in podcast and I'm just happy to be here and U thrilled to get a chance to talk to you I know we had a short conversation before this and you commented about my virtual background with with some of these guitars and I know that you've had a lot of experience playing so nice to meet a musician who's also passionate about technology thank you so much and it's funny I think I it was discernible as AI when I first saw because of some of the repetition and some of the things that aren't quite the way they would be in the real world and I saw something hilarious it was just a meme yesterday and I don't Advocate anyone do crime but it was a six finger that you can attach like a little plastic finger that you could attach to your hand to make it look like you have this weird AI hand that it's like just put this finger on before you do any crimes and then the cameras that catch you will dismiss it as being AI generated sounds like a good Halloween costume for sure that's awesome maybe I you're heading to see in a couple weeks so maybe you'll see a couple six fingers there maybe I'll be one of them that would be hilarious I like it I like it so where to start I know you're working on a bunch of different stuff this this newslet maybe we can start there you talked a little bit about it you've obviously doing a ton of research and it's got a ton of value what's been the most interesting experience in going through this process of weekly having to come up with four tools and it's interesting and thank you for that the newsletter is called AI logs by interesting engineering and once a week on Wednesdays we release a newsletter that has an intro on kind of everything that's happened in the AI world that week then then I I do a prompt of the week I I I cover four tools of the week I then do a a tutorial of the week and then an image of the week and then it's interlaced with news stories and links and and things like that so people can take deep Dives what's been interesting is every week and it's this is not hyperbole every week things change so much I go back and see what I featured the last week and there's even better versions of the tools I featured or one week maybe Sam Alman isn't CEO anymore and the next week he's already had a a job at Microsoft have been reinstated at open AI or one week Amazon and Google shows some some Ai and then the next week it's cat PT shows everything that they just did plus a little and it's just been so amazing I guess to really understand from the ground how 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  • Creator
    Mark Latimer
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    22
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Mark Latimer
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    Ai Training Podcast