John Nosta

Thank you.

What a pleasure to be here.

I had some ideas about what to talk about, and then that clip completely took me off path.

And I want to do something completely spontaneous.

I warned you guys about this, that I'm going to channel this down.

But Scott in that clip said, gather around.

Sit down, gather around.

That is the essence of technology today.

And I want to talk about that just briefly because the notion of gather around actually can be hearkened to ancient...

text, the Upanishads, which are old Hindu spiritual texts.

The Upanishad is actually Sanskrit for sit up close, to sit up close.

Now, what does that mean?

Doctors walking down a hallway on rounds, talking to one another.

A guru sitting with a master talking about a particular issue.

a group of kids sitting around a campfire.

That is the essence of sit down, come up close.

That's gather around.

And what we're seeing today for the first time is there's a technological component to this.

And it's not fearful.

It's that now we have the ability to interact with AI with large language models where we can have that almost intimate conversation