Alex O'Connor

That's why we call AI artificial intelligence, even though it might not be conscious or a person or anything.

The intelligence is the ability to perform tasks.

And there's something you can do.

People who are musically talented, it's a very particular kind of genius.

They might have absolutely no idea what the quadratic equation is, but they can just intuit

musical feeling in a way that other people just couldn't even comprehend.

There might be skills that you didn't even know were skills.

Maybe you're like really good at architecture and your school just doesn't do art.

And it would take a long time for you to realize that that's the thing you're into.

It took me a long time to realize architecture was even like a subject that existed that people studied.

You know what I mean?

Yeah, I love that point.

There's going to be something you're good at.

And if you're being told that you're not good at something, it may be that you're not putting enough effort in and that you're slacking, in which case try a bit harder.

But if you feel like you are, you're doing your best, you're trying as hard as you can, and people keep telling you, you need to try harder.

It's probably just that they're not recognizing the things that you're good at.

But we have no idea why some people are good at things and others not.

It could be social.

It could be genetic.

It could be anything.