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it's been almost a year since open AI released chat GPT to the public kicking off an AI Gold Rush the company shared
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what's coming next at their inaugural open aai developer conference this week they always have these conferences when
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they get big the announcements included introduction of custom gpts this was fascinating for people to create their
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own an upcoming App Store and a new turbo model of chat GPT 4 open AI uh CEO Sam Alman spelled out the company's
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Vision in his keynote let's listen to a bit we're going to launch the GP store you can a GPT there and we'll be able to
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feature the best and the most popular gpts we believe the AI will be about individual empowerment and agency at a
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scale that we've never seen before and that will Elevate Humanity to a scale that we've never seen before either
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we're excited to see what you all will do with this technology and to discover the new future that we're all going to
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architect together blah blah blah blah blah love that Sam Alman but honestly it sounds like the App Store on super on on
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steroids essentially that's what's happening here they're becoming a platform that's what jumped out at me
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about this announcement um a number of people on X were comparing Sim mman to Steve Jobs after that presentation I
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would agree but it was the app store that's what it seemed to be and they're becoming a platform um what do you think
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uh I I think you're right but the App Store is arguably one of the most valuable businesses in the world exactly
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yeah it's the new app store and as someone who spent or my team spent a couple months trying to figure out how
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to build a prop g. and then basically now anyone can do it by just going to the platform I think we should have
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waited two or three months um look it it kind kind of I I was blown away by this
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and it indicates why software continues and Technology continues to every year grab more and more of the world's GDP
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and that is they said okay we're massively upgrading the product you can now upload enormous amounts of data for
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for these llms to analyze we have decided we're taking out fear we're giving you umbrella protection liability
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from any copyright infringement which I thought was extraordinary I'm on the board I'm on the board of uh mayatech
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startup section and the CEO uploaded the board deck to to uh chat GPT 4 4.5 and said act uh in the voice of an
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aggressive growth board member um give me feedback and ask me questions and the questions it came back with were were
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chilling they were so insightful and I mean they kind of provoked an interesting conversation at the board
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level it was like we had another board member in the room and while they're doing all this while they're offering
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custom you know chatbots the ability to make these things more relevant they've updated the input or the the news up
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until April they've updated the amount of data they're scraping up until or current events up until April they
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dramatically lowered the costs and this is the key difference between technology
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and every other business businesses measure their power and their Lev leverage by Management's ability to
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raise prices and since whatever you want to call it Mo's law the castal and technology is let's massively upgrade
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the product and let's lower prices if this had been a consumer company that said we've dramatically improved the
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quality of this car this scarf this soda this streaming media platform the immediate next sentence would be as a
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result we're raising prices 15% because we have the margin power instead these guys say the products incred is just
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distinctly better and we're massively cutting costs I was I was totally blown away by this thing I think the move to
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the platform is the power move you know these he he is going to have this chatbot App Store um it's a consumer
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business model it's very it's it's it's a Steve Jobs Playbook um they will compete with apple and Microsoft
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although satchin Adela um by the way Microsoft invested $ 13 billion in in the I smart investment by SAA Adella he
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made a surprise appearance at the conference uh very happy with that partnership saying you guys have built
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something magical the word magical is an apple word that's how you talk about Steve Jobs um he this copyright Shield
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he talked about was also important which or opena would cover legal costs for copyright suits which are are common um
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companies offer similar protection over IP claims including IBM Microsoft Amazon
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Getty Images in Adobe uh it'll be interesting um Alman said in his Keynote the products the company is currently
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launching are going to look very quaint compared to what's coming um interesting
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thing to say but you could see the directions these are going in and he will repair the problems that the App
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Store had which is dominance he's he's going to have to be paying attention to where Apple went arai including feeling
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like they're they're they're a monopoly um he's certainly going to have to deal with that um but he's got he's got a uh
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he's got a map of someone else's successful launch um so this to me is the it really is the
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App Store of this era that's I don't see there's any other way of looking at it yeah and I'm hopeful that Sam mman
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becomes the foil and young young men and women and stock analysts and the media start comparing him to Elon Musk and say
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you can be a Visionary you can come up with you can change the world and it doesn't necessarily mandate that you're
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an and I think we need that I think unfortunately the the legacy of Steve Jobs not being an especially kind person
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in certain moments he wasn't a public he was not a he was not he was inspirational I AG I I agree Cara he's
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he he comes I I know you were friends with him I'm not friends with him I knew him okay but he comes off as warm and
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cuddly compared to musk but he also anyways I'm not going to post a dead man I don't think he was a great
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role model for CEOs and I speak from experience in that when I was growing up in Tech in the90s we all thought that
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acting like an and being harsh on your employees was an indication of genius and that was largely because of
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our idolatry of Steve Jobs and Elon Musk has now said you not only have to be an
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to your co-workers you need to be a mendacious weird person accusing people of sex crimes of not paying
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Severance I mean he's taken it to an entirely different level and that Trend needs to be reversed and I'm hopeful
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that Sam Alman will have the same type of credibility as a Visionary as someone who creates hundreds of billions of
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dollars in shareholder value while being a thoughtful kind person that cares about the Commonwealth we need a
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contrast here we need a solvent of foil as Zig when this guy musk is zagging and
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I hope that Sam Alman I would agree I I wouldn't compare musk with jobs ever not
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not at all s similar but not the same uh but we could we could argue that look at
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the photograph on the cover of Walter isaacson's books yes I get that he's trying musk is trying to do that he is
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nothing like Steve Jobs let me just say yep I agree but one of the things um that I would say is that there are push
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push backs against uh Sam Alman and others including Microsoft Apple everyone else in that the there's a real
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push back from other VCS from other startups that aren't that don't get funded by the big companies that a lot
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of this push for regulation a lot of their dominance is to is to preserve their is to ring fence it and so there
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can't that these these startups cannot compete and I would say that's something they need to pay attention to it's a
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ring fence it yeah yeah they want to win complet Now versus in the in the in the
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marketplace of ideas I think that is going to be an increasing issue open source versus this versus Sam being sort
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of the the the face of the establishment I guess and I think there's going to be
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a lot of fighting over that of where regulation is going I think Sam has the upper hand and has endeared himself to
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regulators and so I regulation is coming and should but people are worried about
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that and I think we have to pay attention to that because he's so appealing um that it's he has an
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advantage what AI apps would you like to see them develop oh I don't know anything I that's the thing is how could
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you have thought up Uber how could you have thought about like bad apps and good apps I just couldn't have thought
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them up I don't know everything everything an app on I don't know if you like succession if you like you know
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everything about succession everything about it's like a super search it's super Google I you know what I mean like
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Google should have done this essentially but didn't for lots of reasons um you could but Google doesn't you know people
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who have content have have an advantage here like Professor G right or Martha a remember Martha Stewart when I
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interviewed her talked about Marth AI I think that makes sense she has so much amazing content and you could turn it
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into like who knows I I have no idea people are going to be very creative I think I'm
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excited it's the next step it's the absolute next step for this stuff and there'll be a billion of them so that's
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good we'll see we'll see who yeah I I think I think there's a a a really big opportunity and someone told me that Sam
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listens to this uh show I think there's a huge opportunity if he really wants to
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show that he has concern about the Commonwealth I think one in healthc care yeah he's interested in that for sure
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I'm convinced the third of America is so intimidated underinsured lacks knowledge
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that their lump in their breast turns into full metastatic breast cancer that they end up with a a melanoma that could
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have been treated yes that they have um uh you know depression that is that is really starting to harm their lives I
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think that putting out in concert with the na you know the National Institute for health the American Pediatric
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Association medical journals get doctors involved I think this is a huge opportunity to pre to push preventive
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Health Care out to the corners of the U I mean I'm wealthy and I like to think fairly educated I have trouble accessing
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health care it's just can you imagine what it's like for a poor single mother to try and like I feel a lump in my
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breast yeah every body does okay who do I call how much it's going to cost me should I be worried should I not be
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worried the amount of stress my child has diabetes I don't I mean there's such a big opportunity I also think um around
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relationships specifically around young men but an opportunity to work with um psychiatrist psychologists adolescent
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psychologists and offer and then work with uh mentors and big brothers of America to try try and start pairing
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young men with the right resources and job training and uh reinforcing messaging and offline help to try and
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really attack um uh suicidal ideation and self harm among young boys and girls there's just a ton of things that could
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be done here it's going to be a ton of things this is going to be Wellspring of creativity well I I think it's just
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someone has to do it I think there will be a lot of push back on them being the Apple version of this the Apple Store of
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this we'll see we'll see where it goes um there's certainly plenty of competition from The Bigs but let's hope
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there's a lot of competition everywhere and we don't again coales into single powerful organizations which seems to be
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the way things work