Ted Dintersmith

I give a guest lecture every year to a very well-known public college, about 100 juniors and seniors.

And two months ago, I asked them, how many of you consider yourself today to be really good at AI, to be able to use AI to make yourself and those around you more productive?

100.

Nobody.

Nobody.

I said, no, no, no, wait, I'm not here.

Like, this isn't a witch hunt.

I actually hope everybody holds your hand up.

So let's do this again.

Because by the way, this is going to be really important.

Still, no one.

I mean, you know, like, my head's exploding.

And I just explained to them, you can spend your next four months here or 16 months here or, you know, 28 months here trying to eke out a 0.1 or 0.2 increase in your GPA.

Or allocate time so you get really good at using AI, whether it has the blessing of your prof or not.

And the difference is going to be enormous because if you do the first one, no one's going to care.

And if you get good at using AI, write your own ticket.

I got so many thank you.

I mean, how many college kids write thank you notes?

No one, right?

I got this whole bundle of thank you notes from these kids who, somewhat to my amazement, said, I never really thought of that.