Futuristic #33 – A MANIFESTO FOR AUSTRALIAN AGI

Cameron explains his MANIFESTO FOR AUSTRALIAN AGI, Steve explains why he supports the Australian government’s ban on social media for kids, and they discuss NVIDIA’s downloadable local LLM.

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FUTURISTIC 33

[00:00:00] CR: Welcome back to Futuristic. It is episode 33. It’s the 29th of November 2024. Steve Sammartino, welcome back.

[00:00:16] SS: Reilly.

[00:00:19] CR: We have, uh, some big things to talk about, Steve. Big ideas that I want to get into today about the future of AGI in Australia. Social media bans, personal AIs from NVIDIA, but before we do that, why don’t you tell everybody how you have been futuristic since our last conversation.

[00:00:44] SS: One was with VUT and the brief that I got was, you gotta help convince university that we need to embrace AI more, which is kind of crazy and interesting. You know, they’re still using it a lot to stop people cheating or using the tool in some capacity. And I just had two things to say.

[00:01:11] SS: I said, not using it is insane. And I said, I don’t know the answer, but I know the question. And the question is, how do we help our curriculum rise above the AI? Because that’s what we do with every tool. You’ve got to rise above it so that you’re working on top of it. Now, of course, you need to know what good looks like.

[00:01:30] SS: So there’s that. So that was the one thing that was interesting. And I did a workshop with CBUS. Which is a big building company, Seabus Property, who owned the superannuation in the building. It went really well. Incredible Workshop was on MVP’s, Minimum Viable Products, and I want to say that for any company trying to innovate, Or a startup.

[00:01:50] SS: MVP’s are still the ticket. That is still the secret sauce. And it’s really, really hard to do. You know, I really had to thin up some of the ideas for these guys that just cannot think small enough to get momentum. And that was an insight that that’s been true for 20 years. And I can’t see it ever changing.

[00:02:09] SS: Is that if you do something small, you can find a path to success and iterate. And I was really driving

[00:02:16] SS: that home.

[00:02:17] CR: Think small.

[00:02:19] SS: Think small.

[00:02:19] CR: 2024. Well, I’ve done a lot of coding, uh, as usual, just coming up with ideas and coding stuff. Um, just trying to automate a bunch of things. Like, I’m still trying to automate the, um, investing checklist that I do each week. So it’ll be one click button and off it’ll go. I had some success with that this week.

[00:02:39] CR: Did a first phase of it that worked. First test worked. Now I’m trying to expand. And again, think small. So it’s like, I wrote all the scripts around one stock. That I had the data for. I said, right, generate a score for this stock. Got that working. Now I’m like, trying to give it a list of stocks and get it to do scores for a list, like 10.

[00:03:01] CR: And then I’ll give it 200 and see if it still works. But it’s just, yeah, starting off building it piece by piece. But, um, Yeah, I think that’s, that’s mostly it from a technology perspective. Just a lot of using the latest coding tools and it’s frustrating. You know, I’ve been using Claude 3. 5 Sonnet, which a week or two ago was freaking amazing.

[00:03:28] CR: The last couple of days just really sucked. Uh, and I see people talking about that on Reddit. It’s this constant frustration where these tools, uh, have weeks where they’re just like genius level, amazing one shot solutions for