Simon Sinek
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What are the other skills that you think we need to equip ourselves with based on the way that the world is heading? Because, you know, like the calculator came along and we no longer needed to be able to do complicated maths. I've completely forgotten my times tables. I can't spell anymore. I said to my friends, the most I can do is nine times nine. That's like the top end of my range.
What are the other skills that you think we need to equip ourselves with based on the way that the world is heading? Because, you know, like the calculator came along and we no longer needed to be able to do complicated maths. I've completely forgotten my times tables. I can't spell anymore. I said to my friends, the most I can do is nine times nine. That's like the top end of my range.
One of the concerning things was I heard Sam Altman, who's the founder of OpenAI and ChatGPT, launch this thing called WorldCoin a couple of years ago when ChatGPT really started taking off. And it has been closely tied to the concept of universal basic income.
One of the concerning things was I heard Sam Altman, who's the founder of OpenAI and ChatGPT, launch this thing called WorldCoin a couple of years ago when ChatGPT really started taking off. And it has been closely tied to the concept of universal basic income.
The idea, the overarching idea is that in a world where AI and automation eliminate many jobs, UBI may be necessary. WorldCoin is one way to help implement it. That was stated by the founder of ChachiBT, Sam Altman.
The idea, the overarching idea is that in a world where AI and automation eliminate many jobs, UBI may be necessary. WorldCoin is one way to help implement it. That was stated by the founder of ChachiBT, Sam Altman.
What happens to purpose and meaning if we're being – because for anybody that doesn't know what universal basic income is, the idea is the government, the state, whatever, would pay you a certain amount of money every single month.
What happens to purpose and meaning if we're being – because for anybody that doesn't know what universal basic income is, the idea is the government, the state, whatever, would pay you a certain amount of money every single month.
$2,000, $3,000, whatever it might be. Yeah. because they don't think many of us are going to have, there's not going to be enough jobs to go around. And I wonder what happens to purpose and meaning and pursuit and challenge and all these things in a world where we're just being handed money. So we're not being given wealth.
$2,000, $3,000, whatever it might be. Yeah. because they don't think many of us are going to have, there's not going to be enough jobs to go around. And I wonder what happens to purpose and meaning and pursuit and challenge and all these things in a world where we're just being handed money. So we're not being given wealth.
He has made a point of having, I think it's 100 people or less in his company, he doesn't have like a big team. And I think part of that is because when I heard his TED talk a couple of days ago, he's saying, yeah, I think AGI is sooner than we think actually. And I think we're going to have a fast takeoff, which means it's going to arrive very quickly and accelerate very quickly.
He has made a point of having, I think it's 100 people or less in his company, he doesn't have like a big team. And I think part of that is because when I heard his TED talk a couple of days ago, he's saying, yeah, I think AGI is sooner than we think actually. And I think we're going to have a fast takeoff, which means it's going to arrive very quickly and accelerate very quickly.
So I think he's actually preparing not to. Yeah, but what happens to the 90 people he lays off?
So I think he's actually preparing not to. Yeah, but what happens to the 90 people he lays off?
I don't know.
I don't know.
The billionaires that I know, the one consistent thing they've whispered to me about AI is that... people are going to have a lot of free time. That's one of the things that's been really consistent. You're so right when you say that when I asked you about the future of AI, you said, I don't know.
The billionaires that I know, the one consistent thing they've whispered to me about AI is that... people are going to have a lot of free time. That's one of the things that's been really consistent. You're so right when you say that when I asked you about the future of AI, you said, I don't know.
The reason why I know that's probably the correct answer generally is because when I sat with the most advanced people in AI, whether it's Mustafa, who's head of Microsoft AI, now CEO of Microsoft AI, or people from Google, or the CEO of Google, or Reid Hoffman, who's the founder of LinkedIn, they all had different opinions, which made me to think actually the right answer is nobody knows.
The reason why I know that's probably the correct answer generally is because when I sat with the most advanced people in AI, whether it's Mustafa, who's head of Microsoft AI, now CEO of Microsoft AI, or people from Google, or the CEO of Google, or Reid Hoffman, who's the founder of LinkedIn, they all had different opinions, which made me to think actually the right answer is nobody knows.