How AI Actually Changed 30 Lives (Community Challenge)

It. Sam. It. Sa. All right, welcome, everybody. All these lovely people in chat. Today we have a very special stream. This is the one that I personally have been most looking forward to because we're going to look at all the community submissions on how AI changed your life. And it's not just going to be me and you and the other people in the chat doing this. I also have two special guests here today. So let me just quickly recap what the challenge is about, and then I'm going to introduce you to two fellow YouTubers that are going to be judging the results of this with me. This is going to be a lot of fun. It's fantastic to have everyone here and as the tradition demands, share where you're sitting right now, use this little chat box on the side and tell us where you're from. Show us how truly global, global this AI community is by just saying where you're at. For me. Lisbon, Portugal. So the challenge. What is this about? For anybody who's not here, here's the elevator pitch I'm going to invent right now. This is unrehearsed, but let's do this. So basically, we do public. We do. In our. In our community, we do challenges sometimes. And this time we. We decided to turn the challenge outwards, meaning we asked a simple question. How did AI change your life in either in a very small or a very big way? Write up a little story, share some images, tell us the story. The best one, as judged by me, fellow YouTubers and the AI Advantage team, will receive a thousand dollars. The second price, $500. Third price, $100. And all of them will receive the, you know, infinite glory that comes with being featured on this stream. All right, so today we'll be looking at all the results, all the best submissions and what you guys think, but I won't be doing that alone. As mentioned, I have two wonderful guests here with me today. Let me switch the scene and say hi to these two beautiful gentlemen. What's up? How are we doing? Is everything working? First things first, let's do a little. Matt, how are you today?

I'm doing fantastic. I think I look a little bit blurry, though, but, you know, hello, everybody. You know, welcome to the live stream. I'm super excited to get started with this. I'm really happy to be here. And, yeah, let's see how AI has changed people's lives. It is incredible. It's life changing.

It is fantastic to have you here. I know you yourself are very community focused on your channel. You go hard in Your Discord channel, and people share their art and do things. So I was really, you know, very, very happy when you said that you're gonna join us here to do this together. Tim, how have you been and how is your day so far today? Audio, Audio. Okay, there might be. We can't hear you. Yeah, the video is getting a bit better. Yeah, you were a little pixelated there in the beginning, Matt. Not sure what's going on there. I'm sure it's gonna. It already looks better here on the screen. Tim, how's it now? Can we hear you now? We did manage to get this to work, like one minute before the stream. So I'm sure Tim is gonna be here with us, like, also. Not just visually, but also in our ears. Any second here shouldn't be a problem. Meanwhile, I'm a read out this, like this world map that spawned in our chat right here. This is. This is quite crazy. We have everything across from Germany, Georgia, Canada, British Columbia, Canada, Dallas, Texas, England, Georgia, Venezuela, Living in Strasbourg in France with Philip coming.

Can you guys hear me now?

We have Tim coming in from.

Oh, interesting. This is. Wow. This is so the bizarre technical difficulty. So this mic can go. How do I sound, by the way? Because I just on a complete. Just hail Mary here. I switched over to the iPhone and I'm just doing this connected via the magic of Apple, I guess. Does it sound okay, though?

It sounds great. Yeah. Honestly, why do you even do this fancy mic thing? That's totally fine.

I know.

I have this here. I have this audio interface and apparently I can just use a phone. So doing well.

Yeah.

Just coming off of the U. S. Holiday and we have a lot of people from all around the world, if you were not aware, this last weekend was the national stuff, your faith day here in the states. So, yeah, just coming down off of the turkey bloat. So, yeah, doing well.

Excellent. It's great to have you here. Where concretely in the U.S. are you sitting? Could you remind me?

Oh, so I'm in the east coast. I'm just outside of Philadelphia, the birthplace of the nation, so.

Enjoying those cheesesteaks? Okay.

Yes, indeed. Too often.

Excellent, excellent. Yeah, so like a truly, truly global community here. I mean, we have people from Belarus, Netherlands here also. And Shay saying hello. Hello, Shea. Wonderful to have you here with your beautiful note as a profile picture. Kuwait, also coming in here from Stavros. Well, excellent. So now that we all gathered, we can talk about our favorite topic, generative AI and concretely, we're going to be talking about how different people have been using generative AI. Not just using. We talk about that a lot, all the news stories and stuff. That's really about the use and how you can put it to work. Here's a new feature, here's a new release. But this is really about how it impacted the people. It's not just about the technology but like how it affected them, how it affected individual lives. And there's been a lot of submissions, let me tell you that we have, I think I counted just now, 32 or 33 total submissions, every single one of them unique. Now unfortunately, this stream, you know, like we're only human and we cannot go on for 24 hours here. Maybe one day we'll have AI Matt and AI, Tim and AI Igor do a co stream that will be like a month long thing and we can go for everything. Maybe, maybe, who knows, Maybe that year is 20, 25, who knows? But for now we do have to pick a few and focus on a few. And here's the basic structure that we'll do this in. Okay, step one, we'll review some of the best submissions as communicated or as selected by the three of us. And the AI Advantage team is sort of a fourth member on this panel here. So I already have the AI Advantage team's votes. I have them written down here, they're set in stone. I also have my selection over here that is also set in stone. But what we'll do now, I have no idea what both Matt and Tim picked. What we'll do here, we'll get everybody on the same page, including our audience. We'll review a few of these submissions. Actually just realized, like, I don't have a scene for that setup so I'll be dragging around a few things as we do that. But I'll turn on my screen, I'll put your beautiful faces on there somewhere and then we'll go over some of these submissions. You know, we can give our personal takes. Hopefully there's going to be an educational aspect to it to our audience. Like I think it's very, not just inspiritive but also eye opening to see how other people are using this stuff and how it's changing their lives. And then we'll, you know, lay down our judgment and we'll share what we think and we'll do a ranking each one of us is going to do. Like, hey, first, first place, second place, third, first place. First place is going to receive three points. Second place is going to receive two points. Third place is going to receive One point. As I said, our votes plus the community's votes plus the team's votes, going to add all those points up and then we're going to have a winner, second place, third place. In case there's a tie, we have a plan B. I, I don't want to reveal that right now, but we have a plan B. So there you go. That is the plan. Any questions? Chat any questions, gentlemen?

No, no, no, I'm good, man.

This is, this is fun. Why am I giving off game show host vibes? I don't know.

I haven't ever.

I think that's great.

I feel like I'm one of those.

Guys that I. Yeah, yeah.

Special event. Yeah, yeah. We had the ChatGPT anniversary on Saturday. So like this is sort of. This is the after party right here.

Yeah, I'm actually, I'm so surprised we haven't gotten a, a surprise gift from them yet. I was really, it was really. I was really expecting this today to see some sort of announcement.

Yeah, yeah, it is a. It is a bit of a shame. While I set up the overlay, can you tell us about what you would expect from a surprise from a chat from an OpenAI surprise? What were you hoping for, let's say.

Coming off of the SORA leaks from last week, I was really hoping to see a public SORA release. And my. The other big thing that I, I was hoping for or I'm looking forward to seeing is 4o with vision. So Matt, how about you?

Yeah, no, honestly, leading off of that, I think advanced voice mode with vision is something that I was really looking forward to and it would be easy, I think, for them to as like a little gift. But also sora, of course, with all those leaks, I mean, that was crazy, right? And then, and then obviously the full 01. I. I think everyone's kind of waiting for that full 01 release from Open AI for sure. So that, that was the one that I thought they were going to do, but it seems like we're still waiting.

So my money was on. Is, is there some site where you can bet on this stuff? Could I like be like, oh, one coming on December. Someone do that? There you go. That's an easy.

We got to talk to Dylan. Curious. He's in, he's in Vegas. I'm sure that he's got something set up for, for betting.

True, true. Yeah.

That would be a lot of fun, guys.

I think I'm doing it successfully. Look at that. Look at that. I just gotta, I just gotta put.

You in the back, the matrix is breaking down. Thank you, Daniel. Fierce. I like that.

Tim. No, stay with us, Tim. Okay, Maybe a bit more scaling so we see more and then we can get into it. Yeah, my personal, personally, my money would have been on 01 preview, no o1 full with all the tools and I've said this many times on the channel before, but I think, I think we're going to be surprised by how capable that thing is if you tie all the tools into it. This, I kind of like this.

Yeah, I'm really, I'm really looking forward to not taking screenshots constantly and feeding them in. If we can just have a direct, like look at my desktop robot, it's gonna be awesome.

Oh yeah, no, I'm ready.

Okay, so that's looking pretty good, isn't it? Yeah. Okay, good. So now that we have this out of the way, we can kind of scale this up a little bit and get into the very first submissions. So overall, Matt, I know you had a look at some of these in advance. Any, any thoughts on like, maybe before we get into it, how did AI change your life? You know, how do they change? I mean, I know we're like, we're like content creators in this space and that like affects it a lot, but like what are a thing that you return to regularly independent of content creation?

I mean, honestly, it's just the, the access to information and the access to overall intelligence. It's the fact that I don't have to use my brain for so many things I used to. And I know that sounds bad, but it's technology, right? So it's, it's, it's just insane. I mean, ever since, since the inception of chat, GPT, GPT 3.5, the image generation models, it has absolutely changed my life in terms of YouTube, of course, but it's the little things, I think, where it really counts, right? Where it's like I'm just trying to cook dinner and you know, I need a substitute for an ingredient or I need to half a recipe really easily. I just take a pic and send it off. Or like this Thanksgiving, actually I was at family's house and there was a painting on the wall and we wanted to learn a little bit more about the painting, so I took a picture of it and sent it off to the AI. You were that guy, Those moments. Oh, I am that guy. I'm absolutely that guy. Well, it comes up during conversation too. I mean, it's becoming more and more mainstream by the day, right?

Oh, yeah, yeah, you bet.

I'VE definitely used it. I've definitely used it. In that use case that you were talking about, Matt too as well, on vacation, just going out and was in Turkey not too late, too long ago, you know, walking through some ancient ruins or something and, you know, just taking pictures of stuff and saying, like, what's the story behind this? I didn't need a tour guide. I had, you know, I had chat GPT with me. It was very handily able to, you know, it knew exactly where I was, was able to tell me the entire history of it. I could go in on close ups of various, you know, statues from 180, take a picture of it and, you know, a lot of times it would be like, this is a statue of this person. So that was pretty remarkable. And same thing as you with the, with the voice. Now that we know that the iPhone 16 is very capable as a microphone as well, but having that side button on there to just activate voice, I mean, it just like, I mean, I'm not going to go off onto a rant about Apple intelligence because, I mean, that is the new Siri is just anybody that's played around with that is total bunk. But that side button for having chatgpt, I just ran into, I have the Great British Bake off cookbook, which is all, you know, your weird British measurements and strange ingredients like caster sugar, which we don't have here in the States. So, you know, just being able to hit a button and say what's, you know, what's a substitute for castor sugar and, you know, having a voice right there While you're cooking 80 things tell you, well, it's just sugar just, it's like just grind it up a little bit more. Was very handy. So, yeah, it is the little things. You are, you're completely correct.

I think you have to think too about like your life before AI. Like, we're all so used to it now, especially us as like content creators. We're so involved with the world of AI that we've kind of forgotten what it's like to live without AI, I think at this point. But I like the comment that Aaron H. Had down there. We said, AIs made me a wizard. And it's like we're all wizards now. We all have these incredible AI tools at our disposal and it's literally like just having magic at your fingertips, man.

It's fascinating that you guys share that. And active advanced voice mode came out in. Came up in kind of both of your answers. Matt, did you. You didn't Mention Advanced Voice or did you. Like, it's such a common theme these days. Like, like, seriously, like after reading through all of these submissions and having all these discussions at conferences, online comment sections, wherever, it really. It's the little things. It's the little things, just as you guys pointed out. And like, I don't know what the term here is. I don't think that has. That is yet to be coined. But it's something like becoming AI native or like just at least including it in your tech stack, making it a part of like, the way you think. Just like you have Google as a part of where you think, right? Nobody's memorizing, like, how many people live in Athens or something if you go to Greece. But like, you just Google it, right? Same way, you know, all these LLMs opened up a lot of opportunities that if you raise your awareness of it, you can then recall it and you're at a family dinner, you're like, oh, well, let me, you know, help you out with that. Let's figure that out. And now, mom, do you want to talk to the painter that made this painting? And then you turn on Advanced Voice and freak your mom out or whatever. Like, it's really the little things, but they stack up because life is just a series of little things most of the time. So, yeah, really cool. Also, chat coming in hot here. She's saying magic made me a wizard. Seems to be a recurring theme here too. Okay. Okay, Some random comments coming in here too. So let's get into looking at some of these. I prepared a few of the. The favorites amongst us and the team and me. And we're going to look at six of these submissions in total with, you know, we're gonna switch it up, we're gonna go from serious to less serious. So I want to start out over here on Gerhardt's submission. And essentially Gerhardt's submission talks about all the different ways this has been integrated into his life. And Gerhardt is also here in Chat Shout Out Gerhard. Basically he talks about how he uses it in his work as at his university. He also used it in his private life with his children. But he also uses it to express his creativity. Whereas before that might have been more challenging. All of these different ways in a very interactive story. I like the way this is crafted. I like the way this is written. I'll say that I like the way how much. How much effort you put into really like telling a story and showing us the different aspects of it. And I also like the little south park reference in here. I always enjoy those. These gentlemen seem to think the same way. And we're getting some love for Gerhardt in the chat here from Carol. Also coming saying love Gerhardt submission. So I think this one was really great because it showed a wide variety of uses and it told the story very well. Like I was thinking, I think we're not gonna, you know, read out all of this. Everybody can read this for themselves. Some of these are lengthier, and I guess I would spend, like five minutes just reading this. But nevertheless, we have a little Suno song here that we can just open up. Then we have a little Yurio song. As I said, this is a very colorful one, and I like that a lot. And maybe what we can do you think this makes sense? Let's actually run this through Claude and get us a little summary of all of these. I mean, hey, we talk about being AI native. Like, how do we solve not having infinite time? Let's do this. But first, let's play the song.

Is the song playing?

Hey, it's happening.

Can we hear it?

Okay, I can't hear the song.

Yeah, I can't hear it either.

Look at that. We can keep that as background music. Hey, it's AI. It's copyright free. No problem. Okay. Level sounding good.

Shay saying, oh, I don't think they can hear the song.

Ah, okay, so we have interview guests and. Okay, okay, I got it. Okay, fair enough. Like, I was like, oh, my God, I'm doing such a good job at being both a DJ and a summarizer and a moderator here at the same time. But, like, only I could hear it. It was really nice. Nevertheless, we can. We can have a look at the five bullet points somewhere here. So. So he shares his journey, how it started in late 2022 through YouTube algorithms and ChatGPT's release, leading them from initial skepticism to active engagement with the technology. And then all the experiments with AI teaching, including creating a blockchain example for a Swedish bakery, all led to significant professional opportunities. 18 speaking engagements in 2023 and 20 more in 2024. That is amazing. Okay. While many institutions were assistant to AI, the author embraced it, eventually becoming their institution's AI lead and received a national teaching fellowship despite their background as an accounting educator. And this is one thing that I can only back up. Like, Gerhard is a very, very active member of our community here, and Gerhard every time shares how much resistance he faces from other people towards us, especially in the educational and academic realm. The default stance is no, dangerous. This is change. We don't want change. And one thing that I learned from Gerhardt is how traditional and how deeply entrenched all the processes in the academic world are. I was not aware of this, but this is basically a system that has been going for hundreds of years. Maybe Gerhard, you can add something to this in the chat as you have more knowledge of this. But anything that shakes it up, anything that changes it is the opponent. Because you would have to rethink the entire system. Every. How scientific papers are published and peer reviewed. That entire process is not. Does not work in combination with AI. So yeah, so that's. This is an interesting point here. And Gerhard took the. Took the lead here and is looking at what other universities are doing and trying to push it on his own. Then we have how he innovatively used the AD to create educational songs about complex accounting concepts, making difficult topics more engaging. Also, one thing that I can share is that I know that Gerhardt uses NotebookLM a ton in his teaching and learning. Yeah, just use it all the time. And lastly, we have this last bullet point, how the impact extended to his personal life where he developed Storytime magic, a custom GPT for creating bedtime stories for his daughters aged 5 and 10. And then you have the stories in here, the songs. Unfortunately we could not hear this. I guess I could download them and load them into stream, so maybe we can. Wait, is this downloadable? I think you have to be the author of the song to do that, right?

I think you can only share it.

Yeah. Yeah, you can only share it. Okay. I wonder how I could. I'm sure I could figure this out. But you know, that is the story right here and here's the summary. So I think on one hand, I think the summary approach is a good one. On the other hand it also shows kind of the downside of AI. I have to like be honest on that because like there's a lot of personality and that a lot of self expression within this post and this kind of strips that away and kind of just gives. Gives you the facts. So I would encourage anybody who might be in the academic world or might have daughters or kids to read this and get inspired by Gerhard's story and how he's been putting it to work for himself. Any, any notes, any thoughts? Maybe the story time GPT or how he's creating, how he's using all these different tools to not just teach his students but also teach other and like spread the gospel to. To the academic world. What do you guys think?

I think this. Yeah, I think that one of the I mean, one of the great things about where we are in AI right now is that as Gerhard mentioned, he was like, you know, he's done 18 speaking engagements, presumably on AI, coming from an accounting background. Right. And that's one of the things that I think is so incredible about this moment in time for all of us, anybody watching this stream right now, is that there are no experts. It's so new, right, that, like, you know, if you dive in and really, you know, embrace yourself in everything that there is to know about AI, start playing around with it, particularly bringing in your own expertise, as in, like perhaps an accountant, and looking at all of this technology through the lens of what you do. I mean, yeah, of course people eventually are going to be like, you need to talk to people about this. You are now a speaker on this.

Right?

Like, mostly because it's just, it's. It's. It's so new. You come outside of our bubble and most people barely know what's happening right now. They're curious and, as mentioned, afraid. And there's pushback on it. But, you know, if you come in armed with keeping up with all of our various channels and, and, you know, the news cycle, as things keep happening, look, it's. It's very easy to become. Not, I don't know, easy to become an expert, but it's easy to become a voice in this. In this really, really insane time. So, no, I love that. Keep fighting the good fight, Garrett. Like, I mean, like, yeah, it's. You're gonna get pushback. Push back kindly to that pushback.

Hey, that's the way. That's the way. Good encouragement right there. So, yeah, just follow Tim's advice and you'll be good.

Awesome. I honestly, like, from. From my perspective here, like, I'm fresh out of university. I literally graduated in last May of this year. And I know we're coming up to 2025, but it wasn't that long ago that I was in university. I was using AI myself to. To help me, you know, get through university and learn and write and everything, Literally everything. AI was so applicable in school. And I just. I am so happy for those students, the students of Gerhard. I don't want to mispronounce your name, by the way. Doing my best here, but those students are so lucky to have a teacher, someone to actually present AI as an educational tool. A lot of people see AI, but they don't see it in that context as something that could be useful for education. You know, upgrade your studying and make it way more engaging. With a song or use notebook element to summarize things perfectly and give you those, those snippets. Right. It's, it's a total game changer for education in like an unthinkable amount of ways. And, and I just think it's awesome that Gerhardt is out here pioneering that and you know, being an example to the rest of educators in the school system as a whole. I think that's awesome.

That was the great summary. I can only agree, and I'll just add that I think I'm enjoying myself a little too much is probably my favorite stream I've done so far. Thank you so much for doing this. We have more of these on the docket, more stories, more use cases, all of that. And yeah, shout out Gerhard for being an amazing, being an amazing contributor and for sharing his story. And yeah, I, I can only agree. I can only imagine. Like, I remember I had this one teacher when I was I think 11 or 12. She was my, she was something random. Wait, was it French? Spanish? I think it was, it was a French teacher and she brought up blogging and as an example, now this was, you know, I was 11. So this is, this was 19 years ago. Good Lord. 19 years ago in 2015, I believe. And I think blogging came up around 2012, 13. I think it got big somewhere around that time. Maybe, maybe getting this slightly wrong, but essentially was just getting started and she was encouraging it. She was telling us, hey look, this is the, this is a new way to self express. This is a new thing that's happening in the world. And you know, as a 11 year old, you're learning about the world, you're figuring how things are pieced together, how they fit together. And if somebody like a person of authority brings that up all of a sudden it like it's a part of your world. And I think all of us can agree that this technology is only going to become a bigger part of our lives, not a smaller one. Right? Like it's going to be embedded in different ways and like what it's going to turn to, like, let's see. But it's, it's, we're not going back, right? Like if you ask people how much, like you know, if I paid you a thousand dollars, would you give up LLM usage for the rest of your life? That's kind of a probably not, right? What's the number? Is it 2,000?

Is it 10,000?

Like. Right, but so it's significant and I think most people in the audience can agree and having Somebody in a position of authority, bring this up and embrace it and show you that, hey, look, notebook can literally, like, multiply. Your ability to retain things, to summarize things, is a net positive for everyone. So, yeah, that's wonderful.

It's preparing the students for the future. It's awesome. That's what an educator should do.

Louis.

He's always on my videos, too.

Oh, that's excellent. Great to have you here, Louis.

The yellow hand. The yellow hand of. Hello.

Yeah, the emoji hand. All right, excellent. So this was our first submission, Gerhard. So again, we're looking over some. Some contest submissions for anybody who joined us here. And next up, I have a few more queued up. The next one is going to be from Arnab Gupta. I hope I pronounced it correctly. But this is a very interesting one, gentlemen, because this one was less about really telling the story of how it changed life, but just sharing some of his most significant work. And Arnap, essentially. I mean, I guess we could summarize it, but. But it's really not that long. The essence of it is that he managed to turn a lot of his ideas into book format. And while this book is not done yet, he shared the early draft here with us. And I gotta say, I did, you know, full honesty here. I did not read the full book. Okay. It's quite a long book, but I read several chapters and check out just this. Like, I just want to show you this. Like, these different chapters and these different topics that he's tackling here. And let me tell you, this is not AI written that I can tell you for sure. This might be AI, you know, enhanced, edited to a level where we don't know. But this is quite impressive. So I would just encourage everybody to kind of have a peek at this. There's different. Different aspects of life covered in here. You know, we talk. We always talk about use cases here on the channel. Like, this is sort of a lexicon of use cases. Look at that. Like, hey, parenting with AI and then a thoughtful companion. And all of these.

I like chapter seven, AI for doubters, Myths and misconceptions. I feel like that's such. That's such valuable information to bring to the table, especially right now as we're, you know, transitioning into this AI age.

Okay, then, here we go. Here we go. Let's have a look at this. So, Matt, what should make of this? Skepticism about AI is not just understandable, it's essential as a society. Our relationship with technology has always been marked by tension between awe and Apprehension. See, these are words that are not even in the vocabulary of a chatgpt. Right? Like, have you ever seen it write those words? I haven't. We marvel at its possibilities, but fear its consequences. And when it comes to AI, the skepticism feels even more pronounced. And then he goes to debunk myths. Look at that. Yeah, it's just a gimmick. And then he's like, no, wrong.

But the skepticism. I like how he's presenting it here from saying that, like, I was also skeptical. You know what I'm saying? So if someone's reading this and they are skeptical, it's like, hey, like, I understand where you're coming from. You know what I mean? Like, that's. That's so important to have that ability to understand the multiple perspectives at once, 100%.

Because it's like, hey, like, there's good reason to be skeptical. You're doing the smart thing here. But, like, there's a point beyond this. Just hear me out.

And then what are some of the other myths that he lists in this section?

Good question.

So myth one was, AI is just a gimmick.

Okay. I think that one is pretty easy to debunk at this point.

I've been seeing a lot of YouTube videos on that. The algorithm has been feeding me anti AI content, which is always good to actually. And truthfully, I encourage you every once in a while to check in on some anti AI content just to see what the argument is. I think that's important to sort of check in to see so, you know, some counterbalance.

So, yeah, yeah, I agree. Get all parts of the conversation. But look at it. Like, I thought this was really great and. Do you want to see my favorite part? I'll show you my favorite part. My favorite part is in.

Let's see it. Let's see it.

This is sort of saying this tongue in cheek, but where is this?

Is this the book that you're writing the forward to?

Ah, my man. There it is.

Yeah, the Legends. The Legends.

Yeah, the Legends. But you left out two more YouTubers, my friend, so. So you'll get a few minus points for. For that, but other than that, good job here.

Oh, no, no.

But, yeah, this is awesome.

Yeah, this is great.

Yeah, it's really fantastic.

I love it. This is the writing. This is actually a perfect. Yeah, this is actually a perfect use case for LLMs. I mean, this is what they. This is what they do really well. I've always said, like, I get. I get asked about this a lot, obviously on my channel. I tend to cover a lot more creative use tools. You know, your image generators, your video generators, and of course, you know, your creative writing generators and you know, the straight out of the box. Like, you know, I get hit up a lot with what's the best screenplay, you know, LLM to use for a screenplay. And it's really none of them. I mean, like they, they don't do well with longer form content like that. What they, what they are great with is helping brainstorm ideas. And even then, very rarely I think that anybody who's ever tried to write a creative story with the help of say, a chat GPT. When you begin asking it for, say like you want to do a crime film in the style of Tarantino, it's going to give you something that kind of has the shape of a Tarantino, but it's not, it's not going to be anything quite at that level of, of artistry. Of course it's going to be, you know, a little bit on the, I don't want to say bland side, but it's, it's a very like kind of paint by numbers version of it at that point. I really, I always feel that that's when you start the argument process with the, with the LLM and when it begins presenting you with bad ideas, good ideas will often pop into your head. You know what I mean? Like, it's like that, it's, it's like playing tennis with a. Both a really fantastic tennis player and a really terrible tennis player at the same time. So, you know, yeah, it's just a great way of like, of just brainstorming and coming up with ideas. And as LLMs have gotten better too, its ability to remember has gotten, you know, decent. It's not hallucinating quite as much as back in the two and three and three days. So you can put pins in little things. Hey, I like that idea and I like that idea and like continuing to iterate, like. And then of course the ultimate, you know, thing that it's good at is then taking your writings and then, you know, doing all the spelling and grammar checks, which I do all the time.

Yeah, yes, really is so good at that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

No, I mean, this builds off of what I was talking about. I mean, I was in university recently and I was doing a lot of writing. I was doing a lot of papers and I used LLMs to, to help me overcome things like writer's block. Especially back when we had. And you don't really see this very commonly these days, but especially when we had just Straight up completion models where you would paste text in and then let the AI attempt to complete it. So if you were having writer's block, you're like, I don't really quite like the way this is worded. You could delete what you wrote and then have AI fill in a little bit and be like, oh, that's a much smoother transition. And then finish your thought. So AI can. AI can increase your writing capabilities tenfold. It's incredible. I went from getting good grades to getting perfect grades because I was like, I was just, I was taking so much time to make my papers absolutely perfect using AI to just fine tune them to exactly the way that I like exactly whatever vision I had in my head. And I do agree with you as well, where it's the brainstorming that. That is so crazy powerful with AI.

I find it really interesting and not to get too, because this goes super crazy super quick, but the Gen Alpha, I find the Skibidi generation, if you will, they're pretty interesting as they. Thus far at least because I have. My kids are 12, so they're. They're right in. I am right in the middle of Risen and, and whatever mewing is. I'm not sure. So yeah, I'm right in the zone of all of that stuff. So interesting note to them, they're the COVID kids, right? They were sent home at one point or another with some Chromebooks and that was school for two years. What I actually did not realize is that a lot of school districts ended up putting Grammarly on all of those Chromebooks. So they're kind of working with an AI or spell checker this whole time. They haven't been. What I've noticed at least is with that age group, they're not particularly interested in AI. And why would they be? They're not, you know, they, they haven't really. I'm not, you know, that's something where I'm like, no, go learn about, you know, how the periodic table works. Don't ask an LLM. You need to have some of that baseline knowledge to begin with. What I am interested to see is what next handful of years because they will eventually graduate up essentially to using AI in some respect or another. But they're also going to be the AR VR kids because most of those kids at this point want a quest 3 so that it's. I don't know, it's just going to be a really interesting generational shift that I think that Alpha is really going to like. It's. It's yeah, it's really going to be interesting. So.

Huh. Interesting. Yeah. Daniel picked up on the fact that you coined a brand new term that will stick to here on the channel. The Skibidi generation.

The Skibidi generation, Yep.

Oh gosh.

Generation Skibidi.

The worst. Yeah, very interesting insights there. Yeah. This is like, so what is the first generation of people who are like, truly like tech native? Is it millennials or is it Gen Xers are above millennials?

From what I understand, X was. X was the first generation that I think understood the concept that you could take a thing, plug it into another thing, and then those two things become a different thing. Like it forms something else, like a Voltron, basically. But I think that. So before that, like you could plug a toaster into a tv and now it's not just a toaster that does tv. It does, you know, it now does a bad example. It's now a stereo. I don't know, I don't know where I'm going with this, but, but my understanding is that X was the first generation to sort of understand that level of technology. So that became, you know, that's, that's the demarcation period, I guess.

Yeah. My parents are Generation X and they definitely have a decent level of technical literacy, I would say. But is it on the same level as me? You know, I'm Gen Z. So like I can I fly around on the computer because I've been using computers my whole life. I fly around in the iPhone because I've been using an iPhone since I was, you know, like 12 years old. So, you know, it's, it's, it's when you grow up from a very young age using interactive technologies, interacting with screens, you know, touch screens or, or computers or, you know, now even AI, there's, there's a level of inherent skill I think, that you develop.

There is one thing I think from your. And I know, Matt, this is not, this is not you. But there is a lot in the. I guess it would have been the millennial and Z generations that stopped opening things up and putting things in. Like there's not a lot of people from your generation that know how to change RAM or know how to swap out, you know, a hard drive that became something that is. Yeah. Oh no, I know, I know most of the people in this chat and, and all of us will obviously, you know, know how to do that. But I think that like a lot of the all in one devices kind of showed up and you know, it became like, yeah, like how you can't change, you know, oil in your car anymore. I know, Matt. Actually, you can because. Yeah, but you know what I mean.

Yeah, no, I, I totally agree. Agree. And I think, you know, not to divide, delve off too far into a separate conversation and you know, to stay on track here. But I think that with the Skippy generation, as you said, we're starting to see even more of that where it's like everything is in its own little box, like before, beforehand to install. You know, this is a really specific example, but mods for Minecraft, you needed to understand a lot of things like file management and Windows, for example. But now it's like you just click a few buttons and you download a quick program and it does it all for you. So things definitely change over time. But we welcome the change, especially with AI around.

We should probably move into the next one. No, no, no.

What's some great takes. God knows where we are now before we do.

Matt is an AI confirmed.

Yeah, we gotta highlight this question here, Matt. Like, is this. Wow, that's interesting. I noticed that Matt has longer fingers. Is that a digital evolutionary adaptation?

Yes. I actually asked Chat GPT, I said, how can I elongate my fingers? And it, it gave me a recipe. Very, it's very easy.

Simple recipe, stretching exercises, you know, make sure to eat those proteins and all that. Okay, excellent. But yeah, some really great insights there as we come off our second submission here that was all about using AI to enhance your ability. Like what I read out of this one, and what I find really inspiring myself is the fact that this really shows how you can. How it can help you complete bigger projects that otherwise might have been a challenge or mountain that you might not have decided to climb or might not have completed. And that's amazing. And maybe I'm speaking a bit for personal experience there, but I sometimes have trouble finishing a project. I really get excited in the beginning, get going, get it 80% done. But then those last 20% in any creative endeavor are the bulk of the work. That's what people usually say. And with AI, you can. Yeah, as Matt pointed out, you can let it autocomplete. You can, you can help you finish the thing and then you're in the editing stage or you just finish the thing and like a, you get it to 80% and then you use AI to do the editing, you use AI to do the finishing touches. Or opposite example is you just get it kickstarted and you get a. You get all the chapters for your books in Playbook in place before you begin. And all of that just makes it so much easier to get more done. But not just that gives you confidence in like, in your natural abilities as it enhances them.

It's like a second opinion for everything.

Yeah, cool. Yeah, the tennis partner that Tim brought up and on that we can move on to the next one. But you have some great comments. So now. Yeah, yeah, some great comments, but we're at a crossroad here because we have three more submissions that I want to look at here, but we also have one that is kind of funny. I think we're going to do one more serious one and then we're going to lighten the mood a little bit. Okay, so this next one is coming in from Steph, and Steph is a friend of a community member of ours called Dirk that is an amazing contributor that has done so much and shared so much of his GPT building knowledge with us here. Dirk also won our previous GPT building competition. Or like, didn't win, but like came in in a way that caught everybody's attention. And basically he helped Steph here formalize a lot of her knowledge around the work. An introspective technique to inquire your own thoughts, which I believe is a sort of a therapy method. And he managed to formalize this into a GPT now allowing her to scale something that before really demanded one on one interactions. And, you know, I think this is a great example because it's not about eliminating the one on one interactions, it's just about scaling an aspect of it. And then she even said that, hey, if I were to win this challenge, it was somewhere down here. I know where the money's going, and it's to building a real world space where people can, you know, connect and dance and learn from each other. I was somewhere here at the bottom. But I think this is a great example of, you know, using the technology with its advantages, integrating that into what you already do, and then also not losing sight of the grander vision, which, you know, is the real life stuff. But can, you know, a well crafted GPT help individuals in certain situations? Certainly, you know, it allows you to scale your time in a certain way. But then, you know, just don't forget the greater vision. Whereas this, I think it's somewhere here at the bottom. Ah, there's more. It was down here.

Yeah.

It'S self reflection, right? It's self communication.

Yeah, yeah.

The. My Katie thing, I read this one. It's funny, it reminded me of. It was an early VR experiment, actually. I want to Say, I mean, and when I say early, I mean like 2014, 2015, where these psychologists basically set up a, a VR room. You would walk into it and across from you was Sigmund Freud. And Sigmund Freud would nod to you to sit in the chair. And then you sat in the chair and you just, maybe there was a prompt and then you would start talking about whatever problem that you were talking about. So you go through 15, 20 minutes, whatever it is, session ends, you step out of the VR, then you go back into the VR, except instead of being you, you are now seeing through Sigmund Freud's eyes. And a playback of you walking into that room, sitting down and begin to talk about your problems. Begin. Except you're now playing the part of the therapist. So you're literally listening to yourself explaining the problems. And like, I guess it was like the, the success rate of people being able to figure out what was bothering them because you were externalized from your own body was like through the roof. So it was a really, really fascinating study.

And the.

My Katie bot kind of, kind of reminded me a little bit about that. Like, so, yeah, no, well done with this.

That is impressive. Where was that? Where Can I try that? That sounds amazing.

I can't remember. I'll have to look it up again. It was. Or to go on Perplexity and look for it instead of Googling it anymore, because no one Google's anything anymore. But yeah, if you type in like VR experiment Freud, you should be able to find something.

Okay, okay, I'll take Perplexity here.

Oh my God. For a second there, we just had double Igor. I was getting excited.

All right, the double Igor, is it real? What does it mean?

What does it mean? Yes.

No, I think, I think this is really valuable because you have to think with technology, with social media. Surprisingly, we've kind of felt a little bit more disconnected from each other and we're thinking more about others and, you know, how other people think rather than, you know, worrying more about ourselves and being self reflective, which, it's a real problem, especially for me personally. And I've used chat GPT just like this in a number of situations to help, you know, help you get through things, help you come to terms with certain ideas that you might have in your head, you know what I'm saying about yourself and to understand maybe that there are beliefs that you hold on to that you don't agree with and maybe you need to let go of. Right. So I. This AI is perfect for that because it's it's not a real person, it's non judgmental and you know, especially fine tuned in a custom GPT. I think this one's called my kd. Correct. It's, it's designed to do exactly this. It knows the goal and it's, it's, it's showing you that alternate perspective. Right.

Have you guys done the thing, by the way, where since ChatGPT does have the memory function now, just ask it like knowing everything you know about me, what's something about myself that I'm not aware of that I might not be aware of? It is remarkably insightful and might actually kind of hurt you. It's like stab you just a little bit.

No, I mean I do do that.

You procrastinate, don't I?

I, I remember in the early days of Chat GPT like having a few drinks at night and just having like a deep conversation with Chat and saying like after our conversation, like what are some things that you can point out about me? And it will relay those back to you and it's like you're learning about yourself. Self communication, like communication with yourself can be difficult and AI is a very good solution to that problem.

It's a great mirror, a great sparring partner. Interesting. Well, yeah, I can only agree and what we've also seen many times is that one of the best uses of GPTs is building these like customized tutors for something specific to relay a piece of information or to have a certain conversation. For that it works really well. But then also you have to make it quite custom to do that because if you just generally say, hey, you know, like I don't know, talk to me as if you were Sigmund Freud and question me, then like, you know, you're going to spend two, three minutes with that thing and it's going to be fun. But something a bit more guided like this certainly makes a lot of sense. And yeah, I really loved all of your input there, gentlemen. That was, that was also very insightful. And the Sigmund Freud thing I thought was, was also truly like inspiritive to me because, because it's true. It's so hard to find that like distance between your own ideas and thoughts and all the internal things that go on and let's say the advice that you would give to a friend, right, like, because it's so crazy in many cases it's, it's so clear from the outside what is going on or what needs to happen. But then often you get so entangled in all of your own stuff that, that it is harder to figure out. And yeah, using AI in that way to kind of like self reflect a little bit seems like. Doesn't seem like a great way to use it is a great way to use it. All right.

Yeah, it's one of those use cases that people don't think about, but it's really big. I think it really does work.

Okay, I found an article. Yeah, I'll pop it in the chat. I found an article for it. I guess it goes back to 2012 15, which is wild. So there you go. Can I pass something? Yeah, I can just look in here.

There you go.

So that's the, the article on one of the articles that, on that virtual Freud thing. So if anybody wants to check it out.

Excellent.

Very basic. I mean, you think about what we can do now. I always love those, those like, little weird things that we see in our past, you know, past technology and experiments and ideas and just thinking to yourself, like, man, we could replicate that now using AI. And I mean, just even in terms of like the 3D model of Freud, you know what I mean? And just like what we can do now with something like blockade labs or any of the sky boxes. So it's not even Freud in a doctor's office. You're now talking to Freud in the clouds, man.

That's fascinating. It's on one idea, which or one thought that I want to share here. It's something that really resonated with me that I heard recently. It's this quote from Balaji. If you're a Silicon Valley investor, author, and many other things. And basically it said like, hey, if you're really looking to innovate, then you should be looking in like, or for new ideas. Look into two sources. One of them is look at the newest technological papers that are released, because then you're at the cutting edge of what is being done. I suppose that's sort of a little bit of the business that we are in here. Secondly, look at historic, historic books, because everything in between, if you're looking at anything that happened over the course of the last 20, 30, 40 years, everything is sort of has been read by somebody and has been thought of by somebody, has been considered by somebody. There's so many humans out there that that is sort of like, I don't want to call it the dead zone, but like, that is the. That is the zone that is being actively used and considered. But if you look at the newest technological papers or at historic texts or books, you're going to find stuff that no Human, you know, like humans might not have considered in the recent years. So good little. That's a good little tip on innovation that to me, really contextualized a few things. I was like, got to read more historic books. Good. On the papers for now.

Yeah, I know.

Right. Okay, excellent. So just to reset the room here, for anybody who might have recently joined us, we have a discussion on a public challenge that we issued here. The title is how AI change your life. And we had over 30 people submit different stories of how AI affected their lives. Reviewing some of the favorites here, I have to say, one note that I forgot. We're leaving out some of the team's submissions. So we have around. I think it's 13 people on the team now and different, like freelance spaces. Some of them are full time, but most of them submitted their stories in here too. So you can read those. We have one by Kosti here. We have one by Dom here. Daniel. And chat moderating right now is also here. Ariadne doing a lot of the graphics and communications is in here. Philip's one was particularly inspiring. Many people mentioned that as he really shared some like a very personal story right here. So you can check all of those out. And then also we have me and Matthias here at the top. I did quite the write up. Anybody who's got two hours of time and wants to read a little bit of about my life, you can check this out. No, just kidding. It's not that long, but it's good. It shares some aspects of my life that I haven't shared before. And also not on the team, but one. Like we have two more really serious ones to review. Okay. And I think these might be some of the most serious ones we got. But before we do that, we're going to check out Carol's submission because Carol just went in here and generated, what is it? Two minute long video. One minute long video. We're not going to listen to the whole thing. And also we figured out that my audio is not working. So Daniel was kind enough to reformat this into MP4, which I'm now going to drag onto my screen. And we're collectively going to listen to the wonderful art piece that Carol has produced here with I believe, a 11 Labs voice and some dubbing feature. It doesn't really matter, just have a look.

Whoa.

I am so thoroughly enjoying reading everyone's AI stories about how this incredible technology.

We can hear it, but we can't see it. And they also have double E blurry.

But I will. How on earth is the AI Advantage team ever going to choose a winner. The entries are inspiring, fascinating, unique, surprising, sometimes jaw dropping, and even laugh out loud funny. From what I can see, we are all winners. I count myself fortunate to be among some of the world's first consumer level AI enthusiasts and experts. I found Igor even though he didn't know he was lost. Before then, the world of computers was something other people did. In 2022, when ChatGPT hit the scene, I had been living off grid in the Amazon jungle. I had no idea AI was a world away from my reality. Before my off grid sabbatical, I did my best to avoid spending time on computers. I didn't even know that YouTube was a thing.

Wow.

God forbid I learned to troubleshoot my own computer glitches. I genuinely believed I was incapable.

So yeah, how much more of this can we take?

For me, finding Igor and using AI has transformed everything, and mostly for the better. I tried to think of downsides, but honestly, from my limited experience, AI has enhanced my life in more ways than I can list here. Sure, sometimes I might get a little too obsessed or single minded about it, but is that really such a bad thing?

Okay, gentlemen, I think we end that right.

You know what that reminds me of? That reminds. This is like exactly how my brain feels when like a new AI tool drops. That's like a game changer, you know what I'm saying? Like if GPT5 dropped tomorrow, that's how I would feel.

That's how you would feel like every five seconds.

That's like, that's what would be going on in my head.

I got to agree with Stavros, like with the background crew stuff of nightmares. I do, I love him back there. That loop of that guy just clapping like kind of the arms morphing together. This is everything that I love about AI video is, is contained here.

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. So, so Carol, thank you so much for, I don't know, creating this masterpiece. It will be remembered and it will be used again. This might just be the outro to every single stream from here and out, out. Until then, I just think I might.

Just take the laughing the hahaha. Turn that into a ringtone. I think that would be great.

And like every time you receive a WhatsApp message or like a like yeah, just I guess in the US you don't do that. You do.

No, I do it imessage. But yeah, yeah, that would be good.

Receive a message. Okay, so this was great. Gerhard, do you know what timestamp that was at exactly I would have to look it up. But yeah. So wonderful submission here. If anybody couldn't get enough of that, you can listen to the full thing here. It's going to live here in the public area of the community, freely accessible. A wonderful one, Carol. Thanks again also. Yeah. What else? I think that's all the comments I have on this one. Yeah, we could. Let's get to something. Okay.

It's funny. Yeah, yeah.

We have to, we have to reset the mood because the next ones are about to be real serious. These are like real impacts on real people. But. Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah, A little, a little Zen moments. Do I have something on the soundboard here that could, that could help with that? I guess a little eastern chimes sound effect could do it. How about this? Okay, very nice, very nice. Now we're back to center. So in our next submission, on a more serious note, and also, sorry for anybody who just tuned in three minutes ago and was like, wow, how AI changed lives and saw that, that must be. I hope it, you know, made your day. So seriously, now for the next submission, we're gonna look at AI and the double lung transplant. And this is a pretty dramatic story. Like, let's be real, this is why I'm saying we gotta get a bit serious here because Lance Elliot went in here and shared the story of his life over the past few years. A pretty dramatic story that is. But the good news is that Lance has been doing very well recently and he wrote it all up here for us. I think the gist of it is that obviously he went through a very turbulent phase of His Life and ChatGPT Claude have been a companion on the journey. And there's really two use cases that were highlighted here how this, like, legitimately improved his life. One of them was passing all the blood work that you often get from doctors. You often get reports or blood work from doctors, but they don't spend an hour explaining what it exactly means. Right. I think that's just how things go and that's normal. But ChatGPT has all the context to help you with that. And as he was getting blood work done every single day and new medications every single day, ChatGPT helped him make sense of it all. And in a confusing and complicated time like that, any bit of support you can get is valuable. And he very nicely highlights how ChatGPT has just been a companion on that journey that has provided them with the knowledge and information and anxiety reduction that is hard to get elsewhere. So I think this is a beautiful story that is well written here. And also there was one last part to it. Like anybody who will read it will probably find that this is very touching where actually the mother of the person that actually donated his lungs, like there was a tragic accident and the lungs were donated to him and now live in his body and he actually reached out to her but he was so emotional that he couldn't even formulate all of his thoughts on this. And ChatGPT apparently was really, really good at that. And I know for personal experience whenever you're a bit emotional or whatever, there's a lot of things to formulate. It's really good to just open the voice mode, blabber into it and then have it summarize it back, have it reformulate that it's a transformer at its core. Right. So if you give it a bunch of stuff, you can re prompt it to turn it into a different, something different that he also highlighted how he used canvas to work through the process of writing the letter to the mother and it all turned out well. And yeah, a very moving story. Thank you for sharing, Lance Elliot. And yeah, there you go. That is my executive summary of this share right here. Very touching story. Real world impact. And I think the medical analysis has been a thing that many people, including Sam Altman also shared as one of the prime use cases where you just can get more information. It's not about making the diagnosis, it's about understanding the information that you're provided better. It's about education. Right. And I think everybody, at the very least if you're watching this, just be aware of the fact that it can significantly improve your experience. Just if your information level is higher, it can reduce anxiety because it, it explains what's actually going on. It gives you all the follow up questions you might have, might be, you know, you might not have the guts to ask the doctor or you might be too scared to do that. It's complicated times.

Might think about it later even.

Yeah, you know, later.

That's something that, I mean I'm not going to get into a whole thing on the US healthcare system but like there is. Yeah. Especially with a, with a, with something like that like Lance, you know, Lance, who I'm presuming is in the US if I'm wrong that, I mean look, it's just doctors across, across the world, I presume everybody's overworked. That's a heavy, heavy, you know, procedure to have done as well. So you know, like. No, it's just being able to, I, we've all heard a lot of stories about people that may have been taking medication for years and years and years, and then after a conversation with Chat GPT, realize that they were on the wrong medication or, you know, they, you know, it was, it was. They, it might not be what they thought that they had, and they've been able to go back and talk to their doctor about that. So, yeah, a lot of the medical stuff that's coming out about usage with Chat GPT is, is pretty remarkable and something that I think is going to be pretty important. Much better than like, googling on WebMD, you know what I mean? And like, every time you come back from WebMD, you're like, it's cancer. We all have cancer. We're all gonna die now. So at least, you know, I feel that, yeah, chatgpt, the, the medical usage of it is, or the medical suggestions, I wouldn't say never take it, you know, as is not your primary care physician, but it should be used as something, you know, to, to sort of assist with, you know, in conjunction with your doctor. But, yeah, incredible. That's. That was an incredible share, Lance. I did read that.

Yeah. Excellent. Yeah, I agree. So, Matt, you, you enjoyed it too. Matt, any final, any thoughts?

Yeah, no, this is, this is an incredible story. I think it's very moving and it does show that, you know, the question is, a lot of people ask ChatGPT, is it your friend? You certainly text it like your friend. You talk to it like your friend. And the true measure of a friend is are they there through those moments in your life that are the most tough? And ChatGPT absolutely is. It's, it's there for you, it can be used in these situations and, and it can be, you know, a glimmer of light in an otherwise scary and dark situation. Right. And I'm very thankful, you know, that everything worked out in the, in this situation especially. And I can imagine too, that even to lighten the load, as Tim mentioned on doctors and medical professionals, why not just have an iPad, you know, a custom GPT specifically meant for whatever circumstance the patient is in. Right. I think that could be a great idea. But, yeah, this, this is a fantastic story.

Yeah, great chair. Very, very powerful. And it just goes to show how deep these things reach, you know. And like, I would also like to highlight that I think there's a lot of cases like this where people do not decide to share for, you know, like, like the preferences are different and not everybody, not everybody wants to disclose some details like this, and not everybody has worked through some of some of the. All the events that they lived through. And I think a lot of stories like this are happening in society right now, but we're not seeing enough of them them. And I like the fact that what we're doing right here shines a light on them and kind of shows and it also allows us to share lens, isn't it? I think it's quite wonderful. I personally think it's quite wonderful that now maybe hundreds or thousands of people are going to know the story and maybe.