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Derek Rydall

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A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

And then again, the output to scale it, to do it more efficiently, more productively.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

But the foundation is my humanity, my uniqueness, my freakness, whatever you want to call it.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

So I know that was a long answer, but I hope I answered the question.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

Yeah, I know in our pre-call conversation, we talked about that.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

Yeah, well, I mean, that's, of course, the ultimate question.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

I mean, so...

A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

All the deep, contemplative, mystical, philosophical questions that have been like for the academy, for the time of Plato and Aristotle or at your college and your liberal arts or wherever, or at some retreat with your yoga mat, all those things that used to be, or even a lot of hedge fund guys are meditators now.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

But all those things that used to be kind of fringe, really the first principles, the foundations, not just first principles of physics, but first principles of the meaning of life, right?

A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

You know, I think, therefore I am, really should be I am, therefore I can think.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

But those first principles, like as AI does everything a human can do better, faster, cheaper, and especially as it becomes embodied humanoids,

A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

With super intelligence or even AGI, it's a capacity to do the rest of the things that we can do.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

We have to really ask, what's a human for?

A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

And everybody that tries to say, oh, there'll be all kinds of new jobs.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

And yes, there will be.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

But they're talking their book.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

They're trying not to freak people out.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

In all the previous industrial revolutions, there was always the lamplighters, the knockers.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

You always had to knock on your thing because you didn't have alarms then, so they'd wake you up, or the lamplighter.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

And they all went the way of the dodo and the way of the horse and buggy.

A Beginner's Guide to AI
AI Is Creating a Global Identity Crisis - Says Derek Rydall

But this is fundamentally different.