A.I. is here, but not for everyone... yet.

A.I. is a tool nearly everyone can benefit from. Some people will use it better than others, and those people will have a significant advantage. 

Like the rise of the Internet, A.I. will reach a point that it cannot be ignored—everyone will be affected. 

On a micro level today, you can use it as an assistant to help organize text, numbers, and editing—it's great for getting unstuck when you need a creative idea, help writing, or gaining a different perspective when making a decision, and a lot more.

On a macro level, it could be the key to living forever, ending world war... or killing us all. I dunno, but more on that later.

What I know today.

Late in 2022, A.I. was released to the public as ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI. It is the fastest-growing application in history. A company Microsoft has dumped 10 billion into.

Its current dataset is only trained until 2021. However, some Google browser extensions will fetch the most recent information from the Internet. 

[UPDATE: MAY 18, 2023. GTP 4 BETA CONNECTS TO INTERNET—BUGGY]

It is different from Google in many ways. The first and most noticeable is that you can converse with it, and it will remember everything in a single chat string. It can act as your friend, advisor, doctor, and more. It can write a business plan, cocktail menu, musical lyrics, and even code for programmers! It is not perfect and can go off the rails sometimes, but still very impressive.

What about other a.i. sites & services?

Although there are others, ChatGPT is essentially the backbone on which most other A.I. software services rely. So when you see a website like donotpay.ai, an A.I.-based lawyer service, they are using "chatbots" to send natural language queries to a trained data set in ChatGPT to receive text-based responses in return. Then, donotpay will return the data in the promised user-friendly format to their consumer to get paid for their service.

Sounds complicated, but why don't you give it a try? ChatGPT already knows all the great minds in history. Let's program a personal financial advisor to help make hypothetical financial decisions using a set of "prompts."

Shit in = shit out

So in the example above, if I just asked, "should I buy a $60,000 sports car," I would get a broad and unspecific answer. But if I asked the same question and provided a complete snapshot of my finances, financial projections, depreciation, and reasons for wanting the car, I would get a much more specific and helpful return on my query. And I can continue to refine my chat!

The moment you realize everything has changed.

Imagine yourself biting into a delicious burger at a new restaurant, "Smart Patty." It only cost $7.95. You're thinking, how do they do it when everyone else is charging at least $13 and more? Are the other places ripping me off?

Then you take a moment to look around and notice 1/2 the people you would typically see in the service area, and behind the scenes, robots are producing the product and telling the humans what to do and when to do it.

And that's the fucking moment that the divide between the haves and the have-nots will become more apparent than ever. We will live in a world where the haves tell the robots what to do, and the robots tell the have-nots what to do—I give it 24 months.

Chipotle already had a robot named "Chippy" who fry and seasons the chips. White Castle has deployed "Flippy 2" to cook burgers and wings at over 100 locations. The MGM Grand has a robotic bartender, so it has already begun.

Live in your 20s forever.

Or what about something more extreme, like when we can download our brains onto a computer chip? It would not only make teleportation a reality but eternal life.

Let me explain, in this scenario, you are your mind, and your body is just a meat sack. Once we can transfer and store enough data, you will be able to move your mind around and plug it into a new, healthy, disease-free body. 

Where do you get a new body? Easy. Clone yourself and accelerate your twin's growth to 20 years old in 4 years. Do that every few years, and you'll live in your 20s forever. 

What happens to real estate when the location doesn't matter because you can teleport to a meeting in Japan in seconds and rent a new body when you get there?

Forget Japan. What if you were to put your brain at the tip of a laser and travel thru space at the speed of light? You could be on Mars in under 5 minutes.

But what if you smash your brains into a meteorite on your way? It's OK, because you're brain is backed up and there is more than one of you.

But wait, if you believe you're never going to die, why would you be afraid of a God you'll never meet? What happens to religion?

Will some bow to a Digital God? Who will be the first to create the superior AI?

There are so many possibilities of what's to come, and we just don't know. We can't, but we're all in it together. One thing I do believe is that we will experience a Golden Age. I just don't know for how long and what happens after.

I just hope the robots like us.

Should we be afraid?

Personally, I like change. It is the only thing you can count on. The other is that most people are lazy. I make a living solving problems for businesses, and a lot of businesses are going to be in crisis. This is a shift in humanity <- yes, it will be that big, and it will present a lot of opportunities for those who embrace it on both a personal and/or business level.