 Let's talk about AI or artificial intelligence. Now that idea or the recent news about it is striking fear into a lot of people's hearts and careers and view of the world and where it's going. And for others, it's bringing up a lot of excitement. Sort of like a long held dream of being able to finally have conversations with computers and possibly eventually sentient creations of ours. So, I hope that this video will be the start of a dialogue that you'll participate in. You can chat below the video or start your own writing about it or your own discussion about it because it's really, really important that each of us gets clearer and clearer about our stance regarding AI and how we will be working with it. And how we recommend the people in our lives interact with it. Just like, well, I'll give you this quote, which I don't think is hyperbole. Okay. Time magazine recently wrote this, this shift, the AI revolution marks the most important technological breakthrough since social media. And I would go farther to say that this is as significant as when the Internet was created. It's really that big. I am typically I'll just tell you a bit about my history with technology. I grew up at a pretty young age using computers grateful that my home was able to my family was able to afford that. And over the years I have tried a lot of new technology and then in the past 15 years or so, I've become more and more skeptical about new technology. New software platforms I see my friends and clients rush in, oh try this new tool and they tell me about it and I'm like, relax. Most of this is just going to go away. You know, how, how many software tools have you used that went out of business or got taken over by something else and then stop innovating. Too many to count. I mean, for me, I've tried so many so I am pretty intuitive about technology, because I've used it all my life and I've used it so much for business. I'm pretty good about choosing the right software to use because I have a sense of how these things work. And I've been really I was no I'm no longer an early adopter. If anything I'm more like a laggard by this point because I'm like, I sure you go ahead and use that new software for a year or two and if I if it's still around if I see lots of my colleagues using it, then I'll try then I'll actually use it, and then I'll maybe teach it that good. This is the first time in. Let's see since about 2000 and yeah I mean this is the first time since it started my business back in 2009 I started first time where I cannot wait to be an early adopter, because this is not going away. And this is the beginning of something really, really big. I was not notice I was, I was down about crypto, I still kind of am. And a tea craze, never jumped on board with that. You know, whatever, whatever it's like so many other platforms, I never jumped on because I could see that it wasn't going to last, or was kind of a deception was kind of a type, you know, I'm pretty sensitive about that stuff now but AI. This is not hype. This is not hype for real. And we each are going to have to contend with this, because you can dig your head and head in the sand. It's going to come and get you. It's it's coming for your job. It's coming for your business is coming for your work. And honestly, I'm not being this is this is not hype and I probably I really believe this. It's not replace human beings. But the humans who use AI will replace in terms of careers and businesses, the people who do not use AI. It's obvious to me, because it's well as the people who use computers versus the people who don't. They're going to have an easier time running their business. AI artificial intelligence is like this, the advent of the computer. It's that big. And you could decide, well, you know, and, and, and very importantly, it's growing and improving like 1000 times faster than the development of the computer. That's why I'm jumping on now because every month. The developments are happening ever since. I can't believe this but chat GPT only came as of this recording chat GPT only came out four months ago. And it's already feels like ancient history to most of us who are to are using it and seeing it develop. By the time you watch this. I don't know when you're watching this. Hello future people, but this is going to seem quaint probably in two or three months, this video. So, I am really interested to know what your reactions are about this right now. Because the future is really open wide, and it's going to depend on people like you and me to shape the development now we're not, you know, neither of us are working for open AI or Microsoft or or Amazon or most of us watching this or not but what we do in terms of how we use it and how we model its use to our colleagues and our friends and our family and our the children in our lives will shape how our community relates to it and uses it. So, I have a blog post as of this moment I haven't yet posted it but it'll be posted within the hour. About about this thing but essentially I'm going to, I'm going to riff a little bit around my thoughts on this and I again, I'm this video is meant to start a conversation so please do comment below. All right, so let me, let me talk about where I see this going and how I relate to the fears of the people around me around AI. Okay, so where I see this going is that increasing amount of human work is going to be replaced. It's faster than we thought I mean we thought Oh, no, there's no way computers can learn how to create art. And then of course computers create art that's better looking than any of us can do at this point it's already doing that. Oh, there's no way computers can create music come on artificial music it's not going to sound very good. It's already creating music with with a few words you can create songs like that that sound pretty damn good already. So, gone, art is already not gone but it's, it's taken. It's surprisingly fast how fast that took over right shocked. No, no, none of us thought that would happen. I mean, few of us anyway I didn't think it would happen but it already happened. Any kind of writing, drawing, okay, writing, drawing, photography, and soon acting. All of those are what I call raw creation, right. George, what are you talking about, you know, you, we all have to learn how to write. We all have to learn how to write what we teach our kids how to write well. That's old school thinking people. You have no idea what's coming for you. I mean what's coming for society I should say raw creation skills of writing, drawing photography and acting are going to be old school, like, at this point, handwriting. Some, you know, do it's important for kids to learn how to write, hand write beautifully. It's old school it's kind of quaint it's like yeah it's nice if you can hand write letters to grandma or whatever. You know, but it's like, okay, if you want to teach your kids, learn how to hand write beautifully calligraphy or whatever, versus, learn how to type quickly and interact with computers which one is going to set your kid up better for their career. Right. You see what I mean, learn how to draw, right, learn how to draw figures and versus learn how to use the AI tools of drawing to instantly within a few words to envision a world that you want, and the kind of tone you want to set. And the characters within within a particular graphic, and then to be able to describe it and have the computer generated which one is more useful for the future. And drawing old school if I had kids and I just it's unbelievable to me that schools just a month or two ago we're trying to ban chat GPT. When I saw that happen immediately and lots of people like that's right we should ban chat GPT I'm like are you, you know, you're talking about banning computers that's, you're talking about banning like Wikipedia or a calculator, or Internet searches, you can ban it for three months but the people, the people are saying this is too good. This is too useful, it's too efficient. There's no way you can ban something that the people want. So, of course, the those old school teachers and administrators who try to ban chat GPT they're ridiculous because now the news is coming I just saw this news a few days ago that teachers are now finding chat GPT more even more useful than the students. Yeah, it's it came out in an article I'll put it in my blog was studies are now showing that teachers 80% of teachers who use chat GPT say it has been a beneficial effect for their lesson planning and their ability to teacher students well, and 79% of the students said that was kind of like slightly higher long teacher so now the administrators are like sorry, we were wrong. We need to, we need to set up banning technology we need to learn how to use it to prepare our students for the future. Like what are we doing banning technology this ridiculous. The people want it right and so writing drawing, not going to be needed anymore in the future, you can quote me on that, but writing drawing acting sorry, and photography as well, not needed in the future. What's more needed here. Here's where the world's going where here's where creativity is going. What's needed is more human than ever. We're not going to become, you know, robots and don't know how to, you know, connect with humans anymore. No, the people who win in the future in my in my view of creativity in the future are the ones who have the widest and deepest human experiences. The ones who have talked to the most numbers of human not just talk to more people, but the ability to reflect deeply on human experience. Those are going to be the most creative people why because and they don't need to learn how to, they don't even need to learn how to type anymore the future is coming where, well, now you don't even learn how to type like you just dictate into your phone right that's perfect, almost perfect dictation comes out who, you know, obviously we all type still but that's going to go away and probably 10 years, but it's like. Well, what we need for human beings to do is to experience a lot of life, and then reflect deeply and empathetically on life actually another interesting field that's that's going to be hard to replace is spiritual spiritual healing and spiritual, you know, is AI is not going to be able to connect to spirit guides, not yet maybe maybe before long who knows, but that kind of stuff it's like there's still a mystique around it that technology can't really connect to the divine source and all that right so so those of you who are who are able to do that have an advantage. So to get this, the creators of the authentic creators of the future have deeply are able to deeply and getting better deeply reflecting on the human experience. So therefore they have great empathy for humanity. And therefore, and also they have great imagination. They're able to say well gosh. Given this is how humanity relates to these situations, these challenges, these dreams that humanity has. I'm going to envision a scene of a movie of a web page I don't know web pages are going to be a thing in the future but I'm going to envision what this creation should be like to move my audience to a level of energy and emotions that I feel and would like to to evoke and and connect with my audience around so in other words, we are moving from raw creators people who have to type like dummies and learn how to write and learn how to draw and photography and and acting where that that's going to be old school that we don't need to do that anymore. What we even need to learn to do is go from, instead of being a writer or actor or draw, drawing person, you become a director. First you become a curator we've already been curators everything social media came out we were asked to become curators of interesting pieces of content. Oh, this link was interesting Oh this image Oh this video, you know and the people we follow who curate the most interesting things are. You know them right so we've already been practicing curation for 20 years right 1515 years or whenever social media about 15 to 20 years. Now we are asked to move from curation keep keep that every every skill is like layered on top of you, we're asked to move from curation to direction. I mean directors. It's like, I can envision this kind of art, this kind of piece of writing or this kind of software or this kind of program, or this kind of website will evoke these kinds of experiences in my fellow human beings the ones I want to connect with. So then I'm now going to describe it just using my voice soon maybe and this will scare the hell out of some of you using, you know, implanted chips but anyway, we don't have to implant chips I know some of you are really freaked out about that. So let's set that aside for now. I tend to always talk about these things and then it happens like in the future and people like oh yeah George was right but but it doesn't matter. We can use our words to describe a scene, a website, a software we don't even need to learn by the way coding, learning how to program computers and code. That's going to be old school as well because now chat GPT can code, not, not perfectly obviously yet. It's only chat GPT 3.5 chat GPT for is supposed to be coming within the next month, and then imagine five and six are going to be beyond what we can imagine for is already supposed to be able to use words to create video. Yeah. Before long by the time so again, two or three months later so maybe you're watching this that's like ancient video that George is making right now. But before long, you'll just be able to use your words and go I want to make a movie. I want to make a movie that give me a three minute video, where this character goes through these emotions, because they're facing this challenge, and there's there's this there's a particular nuance over here. And this conversation is about this and that go and then within a minute or two will generate a video with probably at this point is probably more cartoonish, but give give it three five years it's going to be, you know, human humans that are so real with that already there's technology that that that makes video deep fakes right you've all you haven't seen this is one of the fascinating channel. Keanu Reeves deep fake YouTube channel. When I first saw it I'm like that's Keanu Reeves what do you mean that's not Keanu Reeves. That's no that's not Keanu Reeves that's a Keanu Reeves deep fake channel I couldn't tell the difference. So that's our technology is already available but in the next like one to three years it's going to be democratized. You know, a lot of us are freaked out about the politics of it because now politicians can be deep faked and, and you have to have technology to be able to be ironically technology to be able to detect the deep fakes so it's always going to be this war between, you know, the technology that creates human like experiences and the technology that says oh that was created by a robot. And it's good just going to be like this it's like spam has been right spam. People get clever about spam and they have spam detectors and they just forever for the rest of, you know, existence just continue to to try to one up each other so long story short. Okay, I'm going to end this video is getting too long here. It's already ancient news by the time I finished making this. We need to learn how to work with it rather than bury our heads in the sand. And it's not going to the genie is not going to go back in the bottle. And, oh, let me let me say one more thing to end in terms of spirituality. Okay, some people think Oh, AI is going to make us less human or less spiritual. I'm like baloney. No, what what are you talking about. Did did did. It's not about. I was going to say did the computer make you less spiritual. I don't know did it. That's a good question. Humanity will always adapt you I believe you will always adapt. If you value your spirituality or your connection with other human beings. It's a depends on what you value. Number one, and number two, it depends on your boundaries that you set with yourself and with technology. Social media didn't make you less social. I mean, most of you watching this and interacting with me on a day to day basis, I wouldn't have met, except through social media. Did it make me more or less social it made me way more social. I'm talking to people way more than I would have without social media at people that are much more interesting to me than my neighbors and the people I would have met just walking along this along the street. Social media made me more social. I'm touching flesh less often right hugging giving people real hugs less often you could say there's a problem there, but doesn't matter. Here's the bottom line. Technology will make you more spiritual if you allow it to it'll make you more soulful and connected to the divine source and be able to be saved into the soul, you know, into the merchant to divine source if you allow it. Just like social media didn't make you more or less social you answer that question because it's about your values, and about your own ability to keep boundaries with yourself and with technology. So, what will AI make us more or less creative, obviously I'm going to let it let it make me more creative because I'm going to become a director now, rather than Oh my God I have to find the right wording for this thing or I got to learn how to design design graphics now no I don't have to learn how to do any of that. I believe AI will make me more spiritual because why it will free up so much damn time. It will free up so much more brain power that went into learning how to type better and write and design and build a business. AI is going to do a lot of business coaching for you I'm going to be out of a job before long. So, so that's why I'm, I'm hurrying up, by the way, coaches, counselors, mentors, facilitators, beware. I'm not saying this as a fear mongering, honestly, I'm talking to myself to I already for my clients, I already have an AI that knows all of my books and they can ask questions for with the bot that has read and understood, not understood understand my all five of my books, they can already chat to it so I've I've already started building my own replacement. And before long I think within the year I'm going to have an AI that knows all my courses that has watched every single video I've ever produced in terms of my courses knows all and you could just chat with it. Oh, George, how do you, I'm stuck on this Facebook ad issue. What do you think George bot, and then George bot was Oh I got it you got to do this guy do that Oh the strategy is that you'll be able to chat with George bot and pop within two years. I'll license it out you'll pay what 75 bucks a month to track with George bot 24 seven you don't have to hire me or join my programs anymore. This is this is coming and so all of us, you know, therapists coaches like there's already bots that I've already been trying I'm like this is a really good therapist. This is a really good coach. I'm sorry I mean it's not perfect obviously it's not 100% you, but it's 80% good enough and it's way cheaper. Right. Like, why do I pay you and I could get something that's 80% good enough that's, you know, 10 times less cost. Why would people need us. That's why we need to become directors that's why we need to really get our act together and go Okay, this is coming. What are we going to do to prepare for it, because if we don't prepare for it. We're going to be, we're going to be, we're going to be surprised by it. And really the future for for coaches mentors counselors facilitators creators are going to be it's really the it's the future is in question right now to be honest with you. And I think, but I'll end with this, we are adaptable that I know. And so whatever next technology comes the next iteration of this comes. I will be here, hopefully, to tell to share with you what how I'm using it, and what I recommend how we use it to add even more value than what we used to do in the past sit with someone. And so I think that their problems, listen to their goals, talk to them to try to change their mind about something or try to walk them through an exercise or try to do some. Again, like I said, I think spiritual healing that's, that's the next level thing that AI can't reproduce yet. So, spiritual healers congratulations used to have something here before they figure out how to, but even so like, you know chat I don't have an astrology as far as I know I mean I don't have an astrology I can, but it's like chat to be or things like this will will understand the internet, and we'll be able to give you the kind of even spiritual guidance that basically is the amalgamation of all the experts and coaches out there. It's so it's like it's even though they might not be literally in tune with the guidance of the divine right channeling something. It will be, it will be there. It's an illusion. It's a magic trick. It is, but it's going to. It's the illusion is so real for the consumer for the client that they're like, Okay, this is 80% good enough. And instead of paying you, you know $200 an hour $100 an hour I'm paying, I'm paying this thing $30 a month. So, you know, it's, it's going to democratize it's going to democratize coaching and, you know, therapy and counseling and facilitation and personal development essentially, it's going to democratize it, which means we have to be the ones that put in that train, you know we become the directors and the trainers of the technology where the content of the technology where is it going to go. So, I think, basically, it this is either as scary as you want it is you want to believe. It's also as exciting as you want to believe. It's how you want to take it. So, I hope, I think it's better for your mental health, our mental health to believe that we are adaptable. And that, well, to understand that it's, it's, it's too convenient for it to go away just like social media, or just like, you know, the calculator, or the internet it's not going to go away. You know, it's, it's people people love it too much. It's the fastest chat GPT if you didn't know this has been has set the record as the fastest growing internet service ever faster than YouTube, Facebook, Tiktok, Instagram ever group grew faster than that got more, got to 100 million users faster than any of those other services now it's at multiple probably a close to a billion already within a few months. So, it's not going away people it's too convenient it's too easy to use it's too magical and it creates the illusion that we think is real it's not real it's just predicting the next word very cleverly. It's based on this giant database that's all it's not there's as far as we know, we don't know that it's not sentient sentient. As far as we know, who knows. But it is certainly it creates the illusion that it is, and it's only the illusion is going to get ever ever harder to pierce through until at one point, there could you could at some point argue that it has a soul. So, I'm really interested in your thoughts, and I really I want to thank those who are already chatting. Shweta Erica tea. You know Rebecca, and Dina. Thank you all for your chats. There are probably more than I'm not seeing here. Those are the ones I'm able to see here. So, to your oh, thank you. So, I look forward to this conversation going forward. Let's, let's, let's become the masters of these tools, rather than letting up master us. I think we should do. So, alright, be well, and yeah, be well, be human. And remember your values and your boundaries and use the stuff wisely. Thanks for joining me.