In a podcast conversation between Roy Peer and Steven W Sorensen, the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on various industries and society as a whole is discussed. The speakers explore the potential for AI to create personalized and engaging experiences in video games and everyday objects to improve safety. However, they also discuss the potential dangers of AI, such as its use in warfare and displacement of human labor. The speakers also touch on the concept of intelligence in AI and the potential for AI to disrupt the job market in the next 10-15 years. In another segment, the speakers discuss the potential of AI in education, including personalized learning experiences based on individual learning styles and abilities, and the need for individuals to adapt to changing job markets. They also explore the potential for AI to enhance learning experiences through gamification and interactive experiences. The conversation highlights the need for individuals and society to adapt to the changing landscape of AI and its impact on education and employment.

In this Episode:
[03:37] Intelligence Into Everyday Objects
[09:50] Cyberwar
[14:04] AI in the Job Market
[17:41] Best Teachers
[22:50] Learning Style With AI
[30:33] The Freedom to Choose What you Want To Do
[33:54] AI in Education
[37:03] Importance of Experience

Bios
Roy Peer is an architect turned entrepreneur. After working for award-winning architects, Diller Scofidio + Renfro in New York City, he started a virtual reality company, which later sold to a notable Hollywood director in 2018. Peer is the founder of PeerBasics, a data-driven products company that analyzes e-commerce sales data to drive product launch decisions in multiple categories with multiple factory partners in Asia. Peer is the author of Simulation Arcade, a sci-fi novel that paints a possible future world where AI and brain chips are commonplace and details how humanity meets its AI cocoon moment and how to stop it.
Steven W Sorensen is the director of corporate finance at droppGroup / droppLabs, an AI / ML web3 video & mixed reality shopatainment marketplace, co-founder of Fotin Media, and a board director of RocketStar, a small satellite launch company. Steven calls NYC home, has lived in China for 7 years and has an MA and M.Phil in English from The University of Hong Kong. He likes jazz piano and good whiskey.
Quotes:
Intelligence Into Everday Objects
[03:37]
The intelligence of some of these may be stupid systems that are out there. And he references planes driven into the side of mountains by suicidal pilots. Let's say the Boeing incidents where these planes essentially would nosedive and things like that. In contrast, you could bake some intelligence into everyday items so that they're not just an aircraft, but an aircraft with a general set of guidelines, like, never land in a way that would risk human life.
Cyberwar
[09:50]
With current technologies today, for instance, drones, if you had a swarm of say, a billion drones with explosives on them and face recognition, you can take over an entire country. And people could, in any way, with electromagnetic bombs or something like that, try to get them rid of them. But there are so many pieces of the swarm, and they're very cheap to manufacture, that it could be a completely new and very targeted way of warfare. So those things are potentially scary as well.
AI in the Job Market
[14:04]
A lot of the advancements are going to disrupt then what the current reality is today. For example, the computer initially came up with someone who would compute and do those computations, whether through a calculator, by hand. And those people are out of jobs. But no one today is complaining about that because there are no computers to defend and people who are now doing other things.
Best Teachers
[17:41]
If we have an education problem, some people will typically rise on a bell curve to the top of the class and flunk their way out of school. But is that a reflection of the teachers in place or the environment in which those children are raised? You'd want to take the best approach, which would be to take the best teachers you can from anywhere in the world, who teach every subject and make every day fun.
Learning Style With AI
[22:50]
I still see the possibility for disruption in education, Ed Tech, in particular, is not so much in the ability to stream the best teachers or content. That technology has already been with us for a while, even if it may or may not be readily implemented.
The Freedom to Choose What You Want to Do
[30:33]
You can open up your phone and read about the biology of Caterpillar. Or you could open it up and look at people dancing on a boardwalk on social media. The beauty is that you can choose what you'd like to do based on your direction and initiatives.
AI in Education
[33:54]
It is interesting to imagine scenarios where AI could further hyper-accelerate human development, not reduce it.
Importance of Experience
[37:03]
Anyone who's gone through any schooling is learning fundamentals, concepts, and things of that nature, which are the underlying basis for what you might be doing in the field. But you'll learn many things when you get into the field. And that's why you don't go from being a graduate to a principal in a firm, because you need to understand, at least within the framework in front of you, what it takes to do that then.

Mentions:
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
https://www.amazon.com/Life-3-0-Being-Artificial-Intelligence/dp/1101946598

Referenced sites: OpenAI https://open.ai/ ChatGPT https://chat.openai.com/
Keywords: #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #EvolutionOfLife #education #cyberwar #GPT3 #GPT4

Whiskey:
Monkey Shoulder Batch 27 https://www.monkeyshoulder.com/en-us

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