EP 2: Bill Gates hints AI could replace teachers

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Bill Gates kind of hinted that AI chatbots might kind of replace teachers. We're going to talk about that and other things that are happening in AI news. This is Everyday AI. I am your host Jordan Wilson and we have a guest today. It's our second show. We've already got a guest, but it's a special guest because Everyday AI is a daily stream and podcasts brought to you by Accelerant Agency. And so I have my co worker here at Accelerant, Brandon. Why don't you introduce yourself and you know, give, give people a quick, quick update on your background.

Yeah, so my name is Brandon Vargas. So I kind of work with all things content for Accelerant. So do a little bit of everything from SEO, website design, general graphic design, ads, things like that. So prior to this, I worked at kind of like a generally speaking, you call like sports consulting customer experience firm. And so I was kind of their marketing department in that instance. But really in the case of AI, I haven't really been exposed to it before working with Accelerant and now that's kind of all we really use and so kind of flip the switch from, you know, not knowing much about it to using it daily.

I love that. I love that. I also like. You worked it in there, Brandon. Flip the switch. The old, the old podcast you worked on. Yeah, Brandon. Brandon has done amazing things. We'll, we'll go ahead and give engagement a shout out. Go, go check them out. So let's do a quick rundown of a couple of the top news stories today in the world of AI. As I kind of alluded to yesterday, it's changing every day. If you take a week off from following AI developments, you can almost kind of feel lost. But as a reminder, that's what this daily show in our daily newsletter is all about. It's about helping everyday people like you and me and Brandon stay up to date with everything that's going on in AI and all. Also how we can use it in our everyday lives, in our careers, in our, in our personal lives. The applications are endless. So before, just as a reminder, hopefully you know you're watching this live. We just got a comment coming on about the sound. So Richard, that's a, that's a great, great question. I think we have sound on our end, maybe on, on LinkedIn or depending on where you're, you're watching, you might have to, uh, toggle the sound on. So hopefully you get that figured out. But let's just, let's just jump right into it. So let's start with the Bill Gates story. You know, saying this just an interview came out yesterday saying that he thinks that AI chatbots will teach kids to read within 18 months and that people will be stunned at how it helps. You know, Brandon, even with your interaction with, with AI so far, what do you think of that statement? Is it far fetched?

No, I, I was just actually thinking about this yesterday and I feel that although right now schools and like, you know, professionals will push against it, I actually feel that they're gonna have to end up adapting just because it's, it's taking over so much that there's no way they can't kind of integrate it for the better as opposed to having kids use it to not actually learn. So that, that's. I agree.

Yeah. And I think what happens in education, which is what this article, you know, again, he's not saying teachers are going to get replaced. That's not what he's saying. But saying that kids are going to be able to learn just from talking to, or talking with AI or learning to read, I think is one of the examples which fundamentally changes, at least in my opinion, what AI can mean to people. You know, full disclosure, I'm actually taking an executive AI coach at Kellog at the graduate school at Northwestern. And AI has actually been really helpful for me because if I'm, you know, I'm learning about things that I generally haven't known or use in years past, you know, when I say I'm an everyday person, I am, you know, I'm not out here building applications, I'm not a developer. But you know, learning things in this class and having to explain things like regression modeling and decision tree, you know, I'm watching webinars and they're great, but. But then I'm also learning on the side with, with you know, ChatGPT which if you haven't used ChatGPT for that, you really should. It's obviously based on pre or, you know, only 2021 and sooner there's there, there's ways around that, but that's for another episode. But for me even it was a great way to supplement my learning. You know, Brandon, is, is there anything that you just had kind of, you know, AI kind of explained to you before or not yet?

I mean, yeah, a lot of things, honestly. I mean, anytime, you know, we're using it For SEO related writing, like there's tons of things it's literally teaching me as I'm writing about something that I like barely, you know, you send me know about and you're more so doing keyword matching. So you know, honestly, it's like all the time I'm learning things, I can't think of a example, but definitely.

Yeah. Yeah. All right, well, hopefully we're not having mic issues. Richard, thanks for the heads up. Everything looks good on our end, so we'll have to check this. We'll have to check this after the fact, so hopefully someone else out there is able to hear us. But let's keep diving in. So another just broad application, Brandon, and I love your thoughts on this. I'm too old for Snapchat and most traditional social media, but Snapchat a couple of days ago just released an AI bot. I guess, you know, it's that, that everyone can go in and talk to. Have you seen anything about this and, and what's your reaction?

Yeah, no, I've seen a lot of posts on Facebook, Instagram, people like screenshotting their conversations with, with the AI chatbot. I think it's interesting because so far we've seen AI use from a like learning perspective and not that you can't learn on Snapchat, but I've seen it used more as like a friend. So I think this is going to be an interesting kind of outlet for AI and how it, it's used in like a form of companionship. So I do think that's, that's interesting. Side note, I did check the LinkedIn. I do have sound on my end when I open on a separate tab. So anyways, yeah, that, that's, that's what I think will be interesting. And that's more getting into like the ethics of AI and that could be a whole separate conversation. But that's where I've seen it used at least for people in my generation and younger so far.

Yeah. And I think that a lot of people, when they're, when they're looking at this, the Snapchat AI, you know, people are just, you know, trying to like jailbreak it and they're trying to get it to say, you know, funny things, but I, I think it represents something larger than that. The thing that I'm really interested in one night when I saw this news from Snapchat is, is what it means for just the adoption rate amongst young people. Right. I do think, you know, that there's a lot of, you know, younger people, you know, using like Chat GPT to help write their papers and things like that. But, but maybe not for anything else. You know, Brandon, I'd love to get, get your thoughts on how, how do you think that this will help just the younger generation learn to talk to AI and also be comfortable with it?

I think it'll allow them to like right now we're trying to adopt what are the best ways to use AI, what are the best prompts. And so for people in the future that can learn it at a younger age, they'll already be way ahead of others that are still debating whether or not that it's even should be used within a professional setting. And so I, I do think that it'll allow it, allow people to kind of use technology for again, everyday use like we're talking about on this podcast. And so, yeah, I mean, I think getting back to the original question or statement by Bill Gates, if you implement, even just learning how to read from it, it's going to help you so much more than, you know, learning traditionally as you would in school and then trying to adapt it later in your career.

Yeah, and I do think, you know, for, for those in the younger generation that maybe didn't, you know, jump on the first, you know, Chat GPT kind of bandwagon, which I didn't even talk about in the introduction yesterday. So if you're absolutely brand new to, to AI, Chat GPT is, is one of the bigger technologies or software releases around AI that really opened it up to the masses. I, I believe the stat is there was 100 million users in the first five days, which most, even the most popular, you know, social media platforms, Netflix, Amazon, to get a hundred million users, it usually takes four, five, ten years sometimes. So five days is, is, is crazy. Right? So I think for those in the younger generation that didn't first jump into that first initial wave for ChatGPT, I think Snapchat is actually going to do so much to drive adoption to this technology. So I'm, I'm, I' excited to follow along and see how that pans out.

Yeah, yeah.

One, one last news note for today in our second ever episode of everyday AI LinkedIn also with some big AI announcements. So if you haven't seen it, I believe they just announced it last night. So essentially I think it's for premium only. So it also looks like a play to potentially drive some premium subscriptions to get people to pay for LinkedIn month. But essentially LinkedIn's releasing an AI that's going to just help you rewrite and Redo and improve your entire LinkedIn portfolio top to bottom. Kind of a game changer. What do you, what do you think?

No, I agree. I do. I, especially for my generation younger, I feel like less and less people are hopping on LinkedIn or even knowing and then they graduate. It's like, oh, shoot, like I have to set up a LinkedIn account. So I feel at least with this it'll help them to jumpstart it. I know for whatever reason, it seems to feel like a daunting thing to set up, like your profile, have the right language, making sure you're appealing to whoever you're, you know, whether you're trying to put yourself out there for your career or to apply to a job. So I think this will help people to feel like reassured that, oh, okay, if, if AI is helping me, then it has to be better than what I can think of. Even though, you know, that's again, another topic. But I think that is something that's going to help. And then even people currently that have been using it for years, there's always room to improve. And so I think that it's going to be an interesting use case.

Yeah, I don't know if in the long run it's going to drive new premium subscribers. You know, I don't know if that's LinkedIn's thought because for the most part, if you're just going for that, it's kind of like a one and done. But I know that they're also offering, you know, more than 100, looks like launching 100 different AI courses, which is huge. I think if anything else, this might just be an attempt to get people to stay along on the LinkedIn platform longer, to maybe reduce, churn some of those things. I don't think this is going to help people, you know, or to help LinkedIn, I should say, drive in, you know, millions of new users, at least on an ongoing basis. But I think it's a really cool feature, you know, if you just need to, you know, go out and get a new job or if you're already been job seeking for a while, I think it might be worth it to just pay for it for a month, test it out and, you know, you might not need it after that. Unless you want to hang on for those, for those 100 courses. You know, Brandon, I want to get back to a couple of questions, you know, because obviously a lot of the things, if you go check out your everyday AI.com, you know, Brandon. Well, let's be honest and we'll save this for another episode. So much of this show in general, and even what's on our website, so much of it is coming from AI. But. But, Brandon, I'd love to hear your experience. You know, there's a lot of professionals like you out there. You know, people who are younger, just a couple of years out of college. What year? You're three years out.

Yep. Three years. Yep.

Three years out of college. So a young professional who are trying to really, you know, just grow in their careers. I'd love to just hear from you candidly, like, what. What were your thoughts around AI when you first started to learn about it? Whether it's, you know, visual things, whether it's written content, what were your thoughts and did you have like an aha moment when you were using it that you're like, oh, okay, this is something that can really help me in my career?

Yeah, I think at first, of course, I was clueless at half of the capabilities and power that AI has, both from, like, you know, everything from Mid journey to just chatgpt, even Jasper, things like that. And so I think at first it was more like, oh, this is cool. I think this can definitely be useful. And then when you really see the capabilities, like, oh, this is the future. And getting back to yesterday's episode, this is the new employee, technically, but not in the sense that it'll, in my opinion, replace you. I think the big aha moment for me was just realizing that it's more getting ahead of the curve and adapting your position from being that graphic designer to being the person that's the best at understanding Mid journey, for example, and being able to use prompts to generate what you need in like, the fastest amount of time, as an example. And so I think for me, as I've been exposed over the past year, year and a half to more and more of AI use, I've realized that it's learning how to, excuse me, adapt, and implementing that so that you can one already be ahead of the curve and, you know, at least for the next year or so, that'll give you that edge to get more jobs. But then after that, when everyone's kind of caught up to you, you'll just have to be able to understand at a higher level or always know what the latest or newest thing coming out or whatever's happening in order to kind of keep ahead of the curve and be able to adapt to what's going on. So that's just my thought, and that's what I'm starting to realize.

Yeah, no Great, great thoughts. And for those of you out there that may not be aware, we will be going in later episodes. We're going to be here every day. So you know, things Brandon was talking about like mid Journey. So that's, that's something that helps you create just amazing images. It's crazy. So we'll have that on, on a later date. And also, you know, he mentioned ChatGPT, which I think most people know about, but it's just, you know, helping you write, research and analyze things. And Jasper, which is, you know, really cool tool that we've actually been using since 2020, you know, where you can create great written content and it has some other features. So we'll be diving into all those things. If you heard something and you're interested, stay tuned. You know, both later this week and in the weeks to come as, as I'm sure we're, we're going to be dedicating certain episodes to some of these different creatives, some of these different out outputs and channels. So I think that's, I think that's a wrap. We made it 15 minutes. You know, Richard and those that maybe were, were not having sound issues. Thank you for sticking with us and, and getting it to work out. And as a reminder, it's not just a live stream. Every day Everyday AI will be on your favorite streaming platforms. Apple pod, Apple Podcasts, Spotify Podcasts, all of them. Go, go look us up. Please subscribe. And I have to put in one plug. We've, we're probably going to mention ChatGPT on just about every episode. It's hard not to. And we are giving away two premium subscriptions for a year. It's $20 a month. We're going to cover for you. So go to your everydayai.com and just go ahead and sign up for the daily newsletter and you're going to have information on how to enter into the contest and it should be pretty easy. We're a brand new show, Brandon, right? We have five to ten subscribers right now. Great chance to win a year of ChatGPT. So thank you again for tuning in and we will see you tomorrow.

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