TJ Walker (speaker) opens by explaining his habitual skepticism toward hyped technologies (Bitcoin, the metaverse) and then says that, after reading widely about AI and cloning, he is alarmed by their potential impact on communication. He uses a tidal-wave metaphor to convey urgency and frames the topic as personally important (mentions his child) and professionally relevant (communication expertise).
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Things are happening quickly. I want to beware. Beware of something. Now, I like to consider myself a savvy news consumer. And when people were hyping and hyping and hyping Bitcoin, I was always extremely skeptical. And I'm pretty, in retrospect, happy about my skepticism. When people were hyping the metaverse just relentlessly only a few years ago, I was always asking myself, do I really want to spend more time looking at a screen or with a goggle on my head? Do I want my children, my child, I only have one child. Do I want children in general and my child in particular spending more time sitting on a couch looking at a screen, isolated? The answer was no. So when people start hyping anything, I get very suspicious. But the more I have immersed myself in reading, everything I get my hands on when it comes to artificial intelligence and cloning, specifically as it relates to helping communication, which is my form of expertise in my niche, I am just dumbfounded by the profound ramifications of this technology. I kind of feel, and I don't mean to be insensitive by this, I kind of feel like I just happen to be on a resort in Thailand, and I'm in the penthouse of a resort and I just happen to have super powered binoculars, and I'm looking out and I see a giant, giant, giant tidal wave coming. No one else notices. Everyone's on the beach, frolicking around. It's a sunny day. Everything else kind of looks the same as yesterday. And yet I can see this tidal wave coming, and I'm running around frantically trying to get out of there, trying to prepare, trying to let people know. That's kind of how I feel right now as it relates to clone AI technology, AI clones of individuals and of organizations and increasing its ability to communicate.