Peter WinickFounder and CEO @ Thought Leadership Leverage

AI is HERE! Why YOU Need to Understand It NOW!

23 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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In this opening monologue, the speaker (Peter Winick) observes the surge of public conversation around large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude. Drawing on his experience having witnessed previous technology waves—from the internet to the fax machine—he frames AI as a genuine, transformative force rather than a niche geek fad. He explains his motivation both as a business owner who wants to experiment hands‑on and as an investor seeking to assess whether this hype represents a lasting opportunity. The core message is that AI is now a real, mainstream trend that demands attention and action.

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It's like a rainy Saturday and I decide like everybody else, I gotta figure out this chat thing. Like everybody else is talking about LLMs and Claude and ChatGPT, whatever. And, you know, you and I have been around long enough where we've seen different technologies come and go and some stick and some have been transformative. You know, we've lived through the internet, we lived through the fax machine, we lived through all these different things. So I said, you know, as a business owner, I gotta get my hands dirty. I gotta figure out what's all this buzz about and also You know, from an investment standpoint, like, okay, this is clearly a thing. It's not some, you know, freaky thing that a couple of geeks are talking about. This is real.