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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm just young enough to be super excited about the
advent of artificial intelligence while also being kind of jealous
of what my high school and collegiate self could have
done with this kind of aid to help me study.
And I know, maybe a little bit further as far
as some other students have been trying to take the
(00:21):
use of artificial intelligence, and you, being an artificial intelligence
and technology expert, how can you best describe the progress
that we've made over the last five to ten years
in artificial intelligence and getting it to every single person
that really is looking for it in America.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, I think it's been a long time coming, you know,
with the advent of the Internet being introduced in the
nineties and it becoming more pervasive after two thousand, where everybody,
most people had access to the Internet. AI is just
another iteration and the whole step of process of technology revolution.
You know. Well, back in the nineties, we were always
(01:00):
talking about the information age, how information is powerful, and
we're now starting to see the fruits of some of
that foundation there. So I see AI as another tool
in your toolbox, just very similar to what you have
your sew on your hammer. If you used properly it
can be very constructive and help basically a lot of
organizations improve their skill building amongst their employees and not
(01:24):
necessarily skill replacement. And I think it's going to be
something very exciting to come forward. You know, you talk
about education. You know again, I'm kind of jealous too.
You know, if we had the Internet and AI when
I was in school, I think it was made learning
a lot easier for me. But since then I've been
on a path of learning, even post a graduate from
(01:47):
the university. Is that we all are learning every day,
and I think if we take AI as a learning
tool to help us learn not only skills at the workplace,
but home life and everything else, I think we're going
to find the tremendous benefits.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah. I saw this kind of study from common Sense
media and a big influx over the last couple of
years of people in school that are you know, exposed
and know how to use artificial intelligence. And there are
plenty of different models out there that people can look at,
but I think a lot of comparisons and I feel
(02:21):
this way about the way people talked about calculators. And
I'm not old enough to know what it was like
when the calculator was first introduced and allowed, but a
lot of fear of oh, well, nobody's ever going to
learn their multiplication tables now, because all you can do
is just put it into a machine and it'll spit
out an answer. And I feel like there's you know,
quite a bit of worry from teachers, from parents, from
(02:42):
I think probably even bosses in a lot of workplaces
that the use of artificial intelligence is taking away some
of the thinking aspect and the critical thinking nature of
our jobs, and for students as they are trying to learn. So,
how can you describe to us the change in landscape
and what maybe some of these fears are. Are they
(03:04):
founded fears or is this more just an unnecessary worry
for some of these people.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Well, I'm gonna basically talk about my age. You know,
I remember before calculators, and I remember that that kind
of evolution of how calculators were going to basically impact
math and sciences and how we're basically going to produce
a bunch of idiots out there. And what I found
was it gave me more time to think about how
(03:29):
to solve the problem. One of the best teachers I
ever had in college was more interested in the steps
of how to solve the problem than he wasn't interested
in the answer. He says, the answer will come if
you basically make your mind aware of how do you
get there, think about the necessary steps to go from
point A to point B. So that's one of the
(03:50):
things that has always stuck with me over the years.
I've leveraged technology to basically expand my mind. You know,
easy locator. You know twenty years ago wouldn't have been
possible without the internet. You know, if you go back
to the nineties, I wouldn't have had a business, But
with the Internet and technology, I now have a thriving
(04:11):
business because of the things that have gone today i
stopped learning, I would have probably not been able to
do that if I stopped learning back in the nineties.
I said, Oh, it's everything I need to know. So
learning technology is basically hand in hand. I see it
evolving over time. And how do we leverage that as
a practical tool in our everyday lives, not only at
(04:32):
work but at home. How do we make life easier
for us to basically have more free time? And I
think people want a little bit more free time to
do is what they please to do and also basically
how do they upgrade their skills as opposed to have
their skills replaced.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I was speaking with John Schultz and he mentioned he's
the founder and CEO of easy Locator on top of
being a tech expert. And I want to talk about
that in a second, because I'm very fascinated by what
you guys do at easy Locator. But before before I
do that, just another quick question as far as artificial
intelligence is concerned. I I'll be honest with you. I
(05:07):
love playing around with it. I'm on it a lot.
I had a full blown conversation for like an hour
with one of the models and had a chance to
kind of have it simulate like baseball, like a historical
baseball outcomes and things like that, just for fun, because
it's something I'm interested in and I'm just I'm wowed
(05:29):
by it, and I'm wowed by the way that it
can talk to me. And however, I wanted to talk
to me if I if I say, I would like
you to speak to me in the way that Ronald
Reagan would have, you know, given a speech. When you
give me this recap and it reads like something that
Ronald Reagan would say, and it's really kind of crazy, right,
So how do we best harness this type of you know,
(05:52):
this this type of technology in a way to make
our lives easier and better and not just to replace
our brain as you know, kind of the critical thing situation.
What would be your tips to somebody like me, a
novice who just wants to be able to utilize this
in the best way possible for our lives.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Well, I think there's a couple of things that we
as humans are able to do that AI has not
able to master yet, and that's our reasoning skills and
to be able to determine right from wrong. If you
look at technology over the years, it's agnostic. It can
be good, used for good, and it can be used
for evil, depending upon the individual behind that technology. Same
(06:31):
thing with AI. So we're always going to have that
reasoning skills. And what's going to happen using AI. It's
going to improve those reasoning skills of us to basically
start questioning whether or not that is a true answer
or not. If you go back to the day of
encycloped encyclopedias and learning from books, we trusted the truth
in those books, did we really question it, you know?
(06:54):
And so I think with AI, it's given us an
opportunity to say, can I trust that in from that
I got, you know, if he's using baseball as an example,
I'll use golf as an example. We use AI, and
the way we do that, way we're building that model
is through identifying what our customer does. Whenever we basically
present to some information to them, do they change that information,
(07:18):
what are they doing, what are they trying to focus on?
And we try to anticipate the next move. It's almost
like a chess game. And so by understanding what your
customer does and how they react, you can build this
model to say, okay, based upon these truths you know
that we see, you know, we can try to predict
what what the next move was going to be, and
so by doing that, we're able to basically save time
(07:41):
for the staff, improve communications, improve that the benefit of
the health of the golf course, and enhance the player's
experience because they see something new that they've never seen before.
So that whole aspect of what we do is basically
is trying to basically touch all aspects of an organization
and try to make their life much easier, simpler, and
(08:03):
more productive.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
It's really interesting John Schultz, who is the founder and
CEO of easy Locator and is a tech expert. But
I just want to touch before I let you go, John,
about what you guys do. As a person who really
is fascinated with golf. I watch golf on TV a lot,
and I'm out there golfing quite a bit. I never
really think about what it takes to maintain a golf
course and give that kind of experience if you're in
(08:27):
charge of a golf course. So tell me how easy
Locator helps golf courses around America, you know, come up
with different ways to not just keep their golf course
as healthy as possible, but also to make it, as
you know, enjoyable of an experience for the golfers who
are out there right.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, golfers want basically a new experience every day. And
for those that are non golfers, they move the hole
on a green every day for multiple reasons. One is
the player wants to see in a different spot, They
want to be challenged differently every day. The other is
from an agronomic standpoint. You know that grass is a living,
breathing organism, and if you leave a spot and you
(09:03):
have people walk over that spot all the time. You're
going to wear it out. So a healthy terf is
what the superintendent is looking for, and because of that,
you know, that's where we come into play. We basically
take the agronomic side, which is what the Superintendent's most
concerned about. We take the player's side, which is what
the golf pro is looking at, and we basically try
to merge our technology to help both organizations out long
(09:26):
term
I'm just young enough to be super excited about the
advent of artificial intelligence while also being kind of jealous
of what my high school and collegiate self could have
done with this kind of aid to help me study.
And I know, maybe a little bit further as far
as some other students have been trying to take the
(00:21):
use of artificial intelligence, and you, being an artificial intelligence
and technology expert, how can you best describe the progress
that we've made over the last five to ten years
in artificial intelligence and getting it to every single person
that really is looking for it in America.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, I think it's been a long time coming, you know,
with the advent of the Internet being introduced in the
nineties and it becoming more pervasive after two thousand, where everybody,
most people had access to the Internet. AI is just
another iteration and the whole step of process of technology revolution.
You know. Well, back in the nineties, we were always
(01:00):
talking about the information age, how information is powerful, and
we're now starting to see the fruits of some of
that foundation there. So I see AI as another tool
in your toolbox, just very similar to what you have
your sew on your hammer. If you used properly it
can be very constructive and help basically a lot of
organizations improve their skill building amongst their employees and not
(01:24):
necessarily skill replacement. And I think it's going to be
something very exciting to come forward. You know, you talk
about education. You know again, I'm kind of jealous too.
You know, if we had the Internet and AI when
I was in school, I think it was made learning
a lot easier for me. But since then I've been
on a path of learning, even post a graduate from
(01:47):
the university. Is that we all are learning every day,
and I think if we take AI as a learning
tool to help us learn not only skills at the workplace,
but home life and everything else, I think we're going
to find the tremendous benefits.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah. I saw this kind of study from common Sense
media and a big influx over the last couple of
years of people in school that are you know, exposed
and know how to use artificial intelligence. And there are
plenty of different models out there that people can look at,
but I think a lot of comparisons and I feel
(02:21):
this way about the way people talked about calculators. And
I'm not old enough to know what it was like
when the calculator was first introduced and allowed, but a
lot of fear of oh, well, nobody's ever going to
learn their multiplication tables now, because all you can do
is just put it into a machine and it'll spit
out an answer. And I feel like there's you know,
quite a bit of worry from teachers, from parents, from
(02:42):
I think probably even bosses in a lot of workplaces
that the use of artificial intelligence is taking away some
of the thinking aspect and the critical thinking nature of
our jobs, and for students as they are trying to learn. So,
how can you describe to us the change in landscape
and what maybe some of these fears are. Are they
(03:04):
founded fears or is this more just an unnecessary worry
for some of these people.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Well, I'm gonna basically talk about my age. You know,
I remember before calculators, and I remember that that kind
of evolution of how calculators were going to basically impact
math and sciences and how we're basically going to produce
a bunch of idiots out there. And what I found
was it gave me more time to think about how
(03:29):
to solve the problem. One of the best teachers I
ever had in college was more interested in the steps
of how to solve the problem than he wasn't interested
in the answer. He says, the answer will come if
you basically make your mind aware of how do you
get there, think about the necessary steps to go from
point A to point B. So that's one of the
(03:50):
things that has always stuck with me over the years.
I've leveraged technology to basically expand my mind. You know,
easy locator. You know twenty years ago wouldn't have been
possible without the internet. You know, if you go back
to the nineties, I wouldn't have had a business, But
with the Internet and technology, I now have a thriving
(04:11):
business because of the things that have gone today i
stopped learning, I would have probably not been able to
do that if I stopped learning back in the nineties.
I said, Oh, it's everything I need to know. So
learning technology is basically hand in hand. I see it
evolving over time. And how do we leverage that as
a practical tool in our everyday lives, not only at
(04:32):
work but at home. How do we make life easier
for us to basically have more free time? And I
think people want a little bit more free time to
do is what they please to do and also basically
how do they upgrade their skills as opposed to have
their skills replaced.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I was speaking with John Schultz and he mentioned he's
the founder and CEO of easy Locator on top of
being a tech expert. And I want to talk about
that in a second, because I'm very fascinated by what
you guys do at easy Locator. But before before I
do that, just another quick question as far as artificial
intelligence is concerned. I I'll be honest with you. I
(05:07):
love playing around with it. I'm on it a lot.
I had a full blown conversation for like an hour
with one of the models and had a chance to
kind of have it simulate like baseball, like a historical
baseball outcomes and things like that, just for fun, because
it's something I'm interested in and I'm just I'm wowed
(05:29):
by it, and I'm wowed by the way that it
can talk to me. And however, I wanted to talk
to me if I if I say, I would like
you to speak to me in the way that Ronald
Reagan would have, you know, given a speech. When you
give me this recap and it reads like something that
Ronald Reagan would say, and it's really kind of crazy, right,
So how do we best harness this type of you know,
(05:52):
this this type of technology in a way to make
our lives easier and better and not just to replace
our brain as you know, kind of the critical thing situation.
What would be your tips to somebody like me, a
novice who just wants to be able to utilize this
in the best way possible for our lives.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Well, I think there's a couple of things that we
as humans are able to do that AI has not
able to master yet, and that's our reasoning skills and
to be able to determine right from wrong. If you
look at technology over the years, it's agnostic. It can
be good, used for good, and it can be used
for evil, depending upon the individual behind that technology. Same
(06:31):
thing with AI. So we're always going to have that
reasoning skills. And what's going to happen using AI. It's
going to improve those reasoning skills of us to basically
start questioning whether or not that is a true answer
or not. If you go back to the day of
encycloped encyclopedias and learning from books, we trusted the truth
in those books, did we really question it, you know?
(06:54):
And so I think with AI, it's given us an
opportunity to say, can I trust that in from that
I got, you know, if he's using baseball as an example,
I'll use golf as an example. We use AI, and
the way we do that, way we're building that model
is through identifying what our customer does. Whenever we basically
present to some information to them, do they change that information,
(07:18):
what are they doing, what are they trying to focus on?
And we try to anticipate the next move. It's almost
like a chess game. And so by understanding what your
customer does and how they react, you can build this
model to say, okay, based upon these truths you know
that we see, you know, we can try to predict
what what the next move was going to be, and
so by doing that, we're able to basically save time
(07:41):
for the staff, improve communications, improve that the benefit of
the health of the golf course, and enhance the player's
experience because they see something new that they've never seen before.
So that whole aspect of what we do is basically
is trying to basically touch all aspects of an organization
and try to make their life much easier, simpler, and
(08:03):
more productive.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
It's really interesting John Schultz, who is the founder and
CEO of easy Locator and is a tech expert. But
I just want to touch before I let you go, John,
about what you guys do. As a person who really
is fascinated with golf. I watch golf on TV a lot,
and I'm out there golfing quite a bit. I never
really think about what it takes to maintain a golf
course and give that kind of experience if you're in
(08:27):
charge of a golf course. So tell me how easy
Locator helps golf courses around America, you know, come up
with different ways to not just keep their golf course
as healthy as possible, but also to make it, as
you know, enjoyable of an experience for the golfers who
are out there right.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, golfers want basically a new experience every day. And
for those that are non golfers, they move the hole
on a green every day for multiple reasons. One is
the player wants to see in a different spot, They
want to be challenged differently every day. The other is
from an agronomic standpoint. You know that grass is a living,
breathing organism, and if you leave a spot and you
(09:03):
have people walk over that spot all the time. You're
going to wear it out. So a healthy terf is
what the superintendent is looking for, and because of that,
you know, that's where we come into play. We basically
take the agronomic side, which is what the Superintendent's most
concerned about. We take the player's side, which is what
the golf pro is looking at, and we basically try
to merge our technology to help both organizations out long
(09:26):
term
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