 We need to have a very serious conversation about chat GPT and all of these new AI Technologies that have been springing up here in the last few months because I think very very few people especially in the free and open source software community a very few people actually realize just how important and how World changing these technologies are going to be and I'm talking about they're going to change the world in a big way Very very fast because I've seen this play out before I've seen how the world essentially in just a few years Changed just like that with the birth of say the internet the the world before the internet and the world after the internet For two very different places that nowadays people can't imagine life without constantly being connected to the internet But you know it wasn't that long. You know just in my lifetime I'm I was actually in college really before the internet really was a thing So I was practically grown so I spent all of my younger years and teenage years Living before the internet and it was a very different place. I see kids now You can't even imagine growing up without the internet like I did or cell phones Cell phones weren't a thing when I was a kid. Nobody carried cell phones It wasn't until I was an adult that people carrying cell phones around was a normal thing And now of course you've got these smartphones, which are of course connected to the internet And they're they've got their own operating systems on these phones and that changed life in a big way once again Most people can't imagine life Without that smartphone and it's going to be the same way in really short time I think this is going to be faster than it was with the smartphone and with the internet within just a couple of years You're not going to be able to imagine life without things like chat GPT and these other AI technologies That are springing up and very soon will start replacing various occupations and very soon They're going to really disrupt a lot of major industries You're going to see a lot of businesses and industries become obsolete practically overnight because of chat GPT and those related AI technologies But of course you're going to see new industries spring up and it's going to be it's going to be something to behold It's going to be some exciting times here in the next couple of years And of course a lot of people don't want to admit that chat GPT and all of this stuff is going to Permiate the zeitgeist and that everybody is going to be using this kind of technology soon A lot of people are resistant to change and I'm certainly one of those people I'm a bit of a luddite, but I'm also a realist. I never deny reality. I have seen how this plays out I hate smartphones. I hate cell phones But I accept the fact that everybody has one now now I don't necessarily have to have one, but I get it and this is the same thing I know everyone will be using chat GPT and you can already see it in just a matter of months How many millions tens of millions hundreds of millions? I don't know the numbers Many millions of people around the world are already using chat GPT on a daily basis to help them do their Schoolwork or to help them in their job to help them write their Masters thesis or their dissertation or whatever it happens to be and we're kind of already saying how chat GPT is Already running some companies out of business here just a few days ago because I followed the stock market I noticed this company here a cheque most people probably have never heard cheque But it's an educational technology company at ed tech company and they have databases of like educational Software and answers where students can you know go and look up basically textbook Documentation for various things. I really don't know what cheque does but it's an ed tech company And they just posted their earnings a couple of days ago and their earnings were really bad And they said that chat GPT the birth of chat GPT has absolutely Wrecked their company and you can see their stock basically dropped by about 50% in one day It went from like $18 to $9, you know once they announced that basically chat GPT was absolutely Taking their ass and they just can't compete and there's going to be other especially ed tech companies They're going to be obsolete. I remember when I was in high school and in college We used to use cliffs notes, you know the little booklets basically your little cheat sheet or you know If you had a book that you didn't want to read the entire book you go by the cliffs notes and I think cliff notes It's still around. I think it's owned by another ed tech company now I think it's owned by a course hero, which you know all these ed tech companies are going to be obsolete Why would you need you know the chag database of information or cliffs notes or anything like that when you have chat GPT? So automatically those companies they're done, right? No one will ever need that kind of technology again and another one And I know this is going to be controversial, but I can see a huge percentage of our teachers being replaced by AI because honestly most teachers are not good teachers in the public school system and Honestly AI would be a better teacher than 99.9% of the teachers that are actually in that industry I know that I know that's something that I'm not a lot of people especially those of you that have Teaching degrees and you may not want to accept but that is the fact we saw this with the internet One of my favorite places to hang out as a kid because I was an avid reader was the library and with the birth of the worldwide web Libraries became obsolete almost overnight. You have very very few public libraries left in this country here in the US and Librarians I remember when that was a normal job You'd go to college to study library technology to get a degree so you could go be a librarian because Libraries were such an important part of society and now It's pretty much a dead industry and no one I can't remember the last time I heard anyone say that they wanted to be a librarian and most of you guys know before I started my YouTube channel I worked in the retail industry for many many years and certainly the rise of the internet is a big reason why Retail is not a big industry anymore here in the US and so many of the big retailers that I knew when I was in my teenage years for example are all gone they all went bankrupt and You know department stores and that was the big thing when I was a kid You had malls with these huge what they called department stores because you had different departments men's departments the kids department You know jewelry and all of this and these were huge stores sometimes multi-story You know stores with three four five stories and you know these huge department stores back then they do like $50 million in sales every year at one location and That's not the case now with the rise of the internet and especially retailers like Amazon and Walmart You won't find in a department store like that anymore They don't exist if you find any of them that are still in business They look like it's a yard sale inside you go in and 80% of those huge Places if they're still there at your local mall are now just they're just empty and dead and lifeless And they do practically no business and certainly the rise of cell phones and smartphones Certainly changed a lot of things. Obviously No one has a landline anymore, right? No phone companies many of the phone companies that were dependent on just selling old school Landline phones That's gone, right? You either had to adapt and move to mobile phones Or you just went out of business and we're already seeing this with chat GP team We're gonna see a lot more of this soon so many people's jobs and you're already seeing this You're seeing a lot of large companies in various industries Starting to lay off thousands of people and many of these companies are starting to realize that AI can do the jobs that a Lot of these people these real-life human beings can do I go through fast-food drive-throughs now And there's not a real person that takes my order, right? It's just all automated You just talk to a screen and the screen talks back to you and it's it's really weird But it kind of makes sense. You don't really need a person to do such a task And when I say that chat GPT is going to cause a lot of these jobs to be obsolete Is that a bad thing? Is that necessarily a bad thing? I would argue, no I mean, I don't like anybody losing their jobs But it's it's kind of yin and yang it's kind of you know, every cloud has a silver lining the internet I mentioned how the internet changed a lot of the world a lot of Businesses and occupations were completely obsolete and unnecessary after the rise of the internet But so many new industries cropped up because of the internet the same thing if you go back, you know 150 years ago with the birth of the automobile, right the automobile completely changed life Around the world because no longer. I mean you didn't need all those horses, right? You no longer had all these people raising horses because everybody had to have a horse to travel and the related industries around horses Like, you know, people that made carriages and buggies people that made saddles What about ferriers that had to shoe all of these millions of horses that were in the country? All of that was unneeded after the rise of the automobile, but the rise of the automobile gave rise to so many You know supporting industries not just the makers of the cars themselves But now you had people, you know making all the accessories and the tires and the parts and then you had gas stations And then the rise of the oil companies to support the car industry And it's going to be the same thing with jet GPT chat GPT is going to be a boon I think for the world economy once this thing gets going so where is all this going where is chat? GPT and all this AI technology where is it leading us? I have no idea, but I think in 10 years the world is going to look vastly different and it looks right now and I'm okay with that in fact I'm pretty excited to see where all this goes and I hope you're excited too It's one of the things why I made this video today I think a lot of people are kind of slow to recognizing some of this stuff some of these major changes as they're happening I know a lot of people didn't recognize it with the internet back in the 1990s a lot of people just Didn't understand computers in general, but especially the internet They didn't get it until all of a sudden one day It was like it all happened in like one year the year was 1996 and the rise of America online AOL all of a sudden Everyone had to have a computer and it had to be connected to the internet it happened just like that the same thing With cell phones all of a sudden everybody had to have a cell phone in their pocket at all times And this is going to be the case with chat GBT and I just want people to recognize it that way You know, you're not blindsided by some of the Aftermath of what is coming and before I go I need to thank the producers of this episode I need to think Gabe James Maxim my homies to bald Matt mimic Mitchell Paul Royal West armored dragon bash potato Chuck Commander angry George Lee Marstrom met those native early on Paul He's watching for polytech realities for less red-profit role in tools. 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