August 17, 2025 • 28 mins
Curious about artificial intelligence but feeling overwhelmed by the tech talk? You're not alone. In this approachable episode, I break down AI basics using simple analogies anyone can understand.
Imagine AI as a massive library condensed into a shoebox - one that can instantly retrieve information and explain it in ways that make sense to you. That's the beauty of this technology: it puts virtually unlimited knowledge at your fingertips without requiring a computer science degree to access it.
The truth is, you're already using AI every day - from your email's spam filter to Netflix recommendations to Google Maps directions. By understanding these tools more deeply, you can harness their power intentionally rather than passively. I share my favorite free AI resources like Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT, explaining how to get started without spending a dime. Plus, I reveal my go-to prompt: "Explain this to me like I'm 10 years old" - perfect for simplifying complex topics without judgment.
Most importantly, I address the boundary between helpful tool and concerning technology. AI is not your therapist, doctor, or lawyer - it's more like a hammer with specific purposes. While current AI simply processes existing information, future Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will potentially make independent decisions, which is why understanding this technology now is so crucial.
Whether you're tech-savvy or tech-averse, this episode offers valuable insights into navigating our increasingly AI-driven world. Got questions about getting started with AI? Reach out through allaboutthejoy.com, and join our Friday night livestreams at 6pm Pacific/9pm Eastern to continue the conversation!
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Host, Carmen Lezeth
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Carmen Lezeth (00:07):
Hey everyone, welcome to All About the Joy.
This is Carmen Talk and I'mCarmen Lezeth, your host, and
today we're going to dive intojust the beginning surface parts
of AI, and I know a lot of myaudience.
A lot of the people that watchAll About the Joy and just hang
out with us and know how we go,have heard me talk about the AI
(00:32):
that I use, whose name currentlyis Jarvis, and I've gotten some
questions, and so I thought Iwould talk about the basics,
because I think it's reallyimportant.
It's something that we shouldall be very aware of, and it's
something that we should all bevery aware of.
First, let's start with what AIstands for.
It stands for artificialintelligence.
But here's the thing that'skind of interesting, because
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we've all seen all of thesefilms like 2001, a Space Odyssey
right, where the villain is Hal, or we've seen movies like War
Games, where Joshua, the big,huge, clunky computer, almost
starts a war on our behalfbecause it thinks it's playing a
game.
We've seen all of these typesof movies that make AI out to be
the bad guy.
So I get it.
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I get why there's so much fear.
It also feels really big, but Iwant you to think about AI the
way that I do.
And look, this is going to besuper simplistic, but I think
I'm just going to own up to it.
The way in which I learn thingsis like if I'm still a kid, and
so I want to invite you to be alittle bit open-minded about it
, as I explain it the way that Iknow it, and hopefully that
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will get you involved instarting to use it on a regular
basis.
So first let me explain how Ithink about AI.
I want you to imagine thatyou're in a library, a huge,
beautiful library, one that fromthe floor to the ceiling is
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just packed with books, andevery floor you go on, it's just
books after books, after books.
Even if you wanted to readevery single one of those books,
even if you had all the time inthe world, first of all, you
wouldn't be able to.
It's just way too muchinformation for the human brain
to kind of just retain, letalone do right.
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But you're also maybe notinterested in every single
subject that's in that library.
But imagine if there was thisbox, just like a shoebox, and in
this shoebox was every singlepiece of data, information, that
was in that library.
Every single book was in thatbox and you could ask the box
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any question and inside that boxit would find the right
information and it would get allthe right books and all the
references.
And then this light would comeout from the top of the box.
It would give you bullet pointsor it would tell you in 3D form
, or it would explain it to youin a very comforting, loving
voice and it would say hey,carmen, here's the information
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you were asking for.
In essence, that's what AI is.
Whenever you hear people talkabout data sets, that it's
learning from data sets,datasets, that it's learning
from datasets.
Think about datasets as a hugelibrary.
It's learning from all of thesedifferent places, and AI
basically today, is a wealth ofinformation at your fingertips.
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It really is an almost enhancedversion of you doing a Google
search, version of you doing aGoogle search, but it's better
because it has the ability tospeak to us in such a way that
we can understand it.
We don't have to readeverything.
We can see it visually, we cansee it in picture form.
We can ask it, which I do a lot.
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I'll say can you please explainthis to me as if I am 10 years
old?
It's one of my favorite promptsand, by the way, whenever you
hear the word prompt, let's beclear what that means as well.
All that means is how do I askAI a question?
Prompt equals question.
It really is that simple.
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And the reason why it's soimportant to ask it a question
correctly or ask the promptcorrectly is because if you do
things like hey AI, I would liketo do a show on learning all
the different facets ofartificial intelligence.
It's going to give you all ofthis massive information and say
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, well, ai began and it'll dothe history and it'll do all of
these different things and it'lltalk about all these scientists
.
But when I prompt, when I askthe question correctly and
specifically, and I'll saysomething like, hey, ai, I'm
thinking about doing a podcast,a live stream for my audience,
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who happens to be somemillennials, gen X, some boomers
, maybe some, you know, I thinkwe have some Gen Z, but I'm not
sure.
But I want it to be for peoplewho are not specifically into
using tech all the time or havenever really used AI.
I want it to be very simple,very specific.
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Can you give me some ideas onhow to go about that?
Well, now that I've given itall of these parameters.
I've given it all of these kindof specific ideas that I want
it to do.
Now AI is going to show itselfand show its information in a
very specific way.
So the more you learn to askthe question correctly, with
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more specifics, the better youare at prompting.
So that's all that means.
So now you know what AI standsfor and you already know so much
about AI.
You probably don't even realizethat you're using AI all the
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time.
If you're using things likeSiri, even if you're using
things like Google Maps, oryou're using your Netflix to
suggest your next movie, or evenif you're on Spotify and it's
telling you what the next songis going to come up, because it
thinks it might know that youlike this one based on the one
you just listened to.
All that is AI.
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Google Maps actually is prettyinteresting because it uses
portions of AI in its mappingtechnology, but still, a lot of
what we do even looking at ouremails and email spam being
taken out of what we're lookingat when we're looking at our
emails, when it's going intothat spam filter, a lot of that
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is AI enhancements induced,supported.
So you're already using AI,even if you're not aware of it.
And AI is everywhere, and thereason why I think it's so
important to talk about isbecause it's not going anywhere.
And I think a lot of people arekind of being dismissive of AI
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because maybe it feels a littlebit overwhelming or maybe it
feels a little bit too techie.
But here's the thing I am not ahuge tech person either.
I'm extremely curious and I'malways interested to know what's
going on, but it really issomething that all of us can
grasp, because I'm telling youright now, I am one of the
simplest people you're evergoing to know, and I'm not even
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trying to diss myself, but oneof my favorite prompts, or one
of the things I enjoy asking AIall the time is I'll ask it hey,
ai, can you explain this thingthat I'm researching, and
explain it to me like I'm a10-year-old?
It's one of my favorite promptsor the ways in which I ask
questions, because I want thingssimplified as easy as possible.
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And that's what I want to offerto you while you're going into
this journey of learning AI, sothat you feel empowered, so that
you feel like you know what'sgoing on is remember that, if I
can do it, I hate to be socliche you can do it too.
So how do you use artificialintelligence, ai, intentionally?
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How do you start using it andplaying with it a little bit so
that you feel more comfortablewith it?
And oh, I hope this is whathappens for you too is that you
can then turn around and use itin your everyday life.
So let's talk about what'sgoing on with AI and why it does
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feel very confusing.
First, let's just say thatthere is so many people and
companies and different sorts ofAI that it does feel
overwhelming.
So that's the first issue.
You're hearing all of thesedifferent companies and you're
hearing all of these differentnames about AI, and so it feels
like which one do I use, whichone do I need?
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I'm going to give you somesuggestions in a moment, but I
just want you to understandwhat's happened.
Ai has come out into the worldand it's been around for a while
, but it's now commercial, andthat means everybody and their
mother is trying to not onlythink they can do it and make it
better, but they're also alltrying to make a profit.
So if I were you, what I wouldtry to do first is find the AIs
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that offer something free sothat you can try it first and
most of them do that you knoware legit, okay, and that you
know you can kind of just learnfrom, and then you have no
obligation, no monthly servicefee, no need to use it all the
time intentionally, and all ofthat good stuff.
So here are kind of the bignames and I'm sure you've heard
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of them, but these are the onesyou may want to use If you're
going to be using AI to maybewrite a letter or to help you
kind of research, some stuff ona light way, kind of just for
fun.
You can use things like Copilot, which I'm a fan, a big fan of.
So I use Copilot all the time.
It's part of the Microsoftbrand and if you have Windows,
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you probably already haveCopilot on your Windows 11 and
up.
Copilot is really good forwriting, really good for editing
, and it's integrated into allof your software.
By the way, I should alsomention I don't have any
sponsorships.
I don't have anything to dowith any of these brands, except
that I use them.
So I am sharing them.
I have no reason to lie to you.
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I'm not making any money off ofit.
I just want you to know thatthese are what I use and I think
they're an easy way to startlearning about artificial
intelligence, ai.
Learning about artificialintelligence AI.
The other one that everyonealways hears, you've heard a lot
about, is chat GPT, and sodon't listen to all the noise
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that's happening about whichversion or whatever.
If you have not dipped your toeinto chat GPT, you can now and
they do have a free level andyou could just go in and start
kind of asking questions Insteadof using Google.
Just go in there and see whatthe difference is, see how it
works, Give yourself the chanceto just learn about it.
So ChatGPT is a good one.
Copilot, which is the one thatI use, is really a good one.
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I really like it because it'sintegrated in all of Microsoft's
software programs and it'sprobably on your computer.
If you are a Windows user, Ithink you have to have a certain
level of Windows.
I'm not sure which one, but ifyou have Windows, check it out,
and it generally is free in thebeginning.
You can choose to get you knowby different tiers, but again,
not at this level, not whenwe're just trying things out.
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Okay, so if you need help withmaybe writing or editing or just
kind of doing basic Googlesearch type of things that you
were doing in the past just toget your feet wet.
Try those, those are reallyeasy ChatGBT and Copilot.
You can also use Google'sversion of AI, which is also
called Gemini.
So instead of going into yoursearch bar and using Google,
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you'll probably see that it saysAI mode next to it.
Click on AI mode and see whatthe difference is.
Just go into AI mode and,instead of searching something
in Google, search it in thereand see how different it feels
and what it's doing and if thatmight work for you as well.
Again, all of those are free touse in the beginning, as long
as you're not going into somebigger, more in-depth things
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which I'm not even at yet.
So I'm just letting you know Ifyou're really into image
creation so I don't use this alot but the big one is
Midjourney that everyone's usingand you do have to give your
email and some information orwhatever, but they do have a
free tier, at least for thefirst 14 days or something like
this.
I don't know, but you can atleast try it out, and what it
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does is it can create images foryou so you can say please
create an image of a flowerblowing in the breeze, with a
leaf or whatever, a petal knoton it or something, and it will
create that.
It will create a lot ofdifferent things and I think, as
long as you keep to the basics,you can do a lot of free things
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in there, but you can also seeother people's creations, which
is pretty interesting as well.
You can also use anotherprogram called DALLI D-A-L-L-E.
That's also an image creationapp that is AI generative, so
try that.
If you're into audio and videocreation, you probably already
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know a lot of the different waysin which AI has been integrated
into a lot of differentprograms.
I currently use Descript andthere's another one called 11
Labs.
These are places where you canupload your video, whatever it
is that you're editing, and theyhave different tools for you to
use in order to create clips.
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And you can just say I need 10clips from this video that I'm
making right now, and it willcome up with 10 clips, and then
you can look at those clips foryour social media, like to post
on TikTok or to post on Facebook, and these social media clips
are really perfect because thenyou can turn around and you can
add font to it or you can add asplash of something or you can
add B-roll.
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But all of this is reallyeasier for someone like me who's
not a real editor, because it'susing AI and I am prompting it
and asking it to help me dothese social media clips, so
that might be a little bit moreintegrated.
But if you're interested inlearning about how to do video
editing, or even if you want todo audio completely free, is
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Audacity, and I love Audacity.
I've been using this for years.
This is not even about AI, justAudacity as a tool for if you're
recording a podcast or you wantto create anything music-wise
or whatever, audacity is anamazing program.
It's free for everybody to useand what's really amazing about
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it is now that it is integratingcertain things with AI, it's
even easier to use than everbefore.
But video and audio is a littlebit different.
But those are some of theprograms and apps that I use to
this day and, yeah, reallyamazing programs.
For any of you out there whoare buddying to be podcasters
and live streamers, or if youjust want to do a great video or
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something for a wedding orsomething like that, these are
great programs to learn and use.
Don't worry about which programyou should use.
What you want to do isunderstand what the task is,
that you want to do.
So if you have a certain thingthat you need done, that's going
to guide whether or not you usea certain tool.
And the best way to do that isyou say you know what I want to
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create a spreadsheet of all thereceipts I spent at the grocery
store in the past month.
Let's say that's something youwant to do.
Go into Google, the AI mode, orgo into chat, gpt, and say this
is what I want to do.
Which AI program or app shouldI use?
And I keep saying program, butthe right terminology would be
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app.
But trust me, ai will know whatyou mean.
That's the other cool partabout it.
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Okay, the thing I love about AIis that it feels friendly and
there's no judgment, becauseit's not human.
It's a thing.
It's not mechanical, but it'snot human.
So I can ask it any question,like can you explain the 14th
Amendment to me?
Like I'm a 10-year-old, I canask those questions and it will
explain it to me.
And then I'll say you know what?
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Can you give me an analogy so Ican understand it more
thoroughly.
No one is going to make ajudgment, because I didn't know
the 14th Amendment.
I do know the 14th Amendment,but you see what I'm saying.
So, even though AI feels human,what I want to remind you over
and over and over again, it isnot.
So here are some things not todo with AI, and a lot of people
are doing this and you reallyshouldn't do it, and I'm going
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to tell you why.
It is not a therapist, it isnot a doctor, it is not a lawyer
, but let's talk about thetherapy part, because it feels
like a lot of people are doingthis, so much so that Sam Altman
, who is the CEO of OpenAI,wrote an article.
I read an article.
I don't know if he was on apanel, but I read an article the
other day about he is sayingthat people are using AI wrong
and the reason why they're usingit wrong is because they're
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using it like a therapist.
Here's the thing.
Not only is it not confidentialand HIPAA does not apply okay,
so there's no patient, doctor,confidentiality, stuff happening
.
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Ai does not understand humannuance.
Ai does not understand thecomplexities of the human brain.
All it knows is.
Remember, we're talking aboutthat library.
All it has is all thisinformation from its data sets
that it's learned and it isregurgitating information to you
based on what it thinks youwant to hear.
So you need to be very carefulabout and look, I think we can
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all do this as humans.
I don't know why people arefreaking out so much.
We can understand that.
This is a tool.
It is a tool with a specificpurpose.
I think of it like a hammer.
A hammer is a tool.
I use it with nails and I useit to put up paintings or I use
it to bound things together.
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What I don't do is use a hammerto try to bang in a screw.
Right, a hammer and a screw arenot the right thing, even
though they might seem likethey're like nails.
It's not going to work.
And it's kind of the same thingwith AI.
You can get yourself into somany different issues when you
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start using it for things likemedical advice and just lawyer
stuff and CPA stuff.
You can get the basics, you canget the fundamentals.
You can ask it oh, has the taxlaw changed this year and can I
benefit?
And blah, blah, blah.
You can ask those questions,but you still want to talk to
your CPA to make sure it appliesto you, because the thing is,
ai is also not infallible.
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It has so much information it'smaybe cross-contaminating
information back and forth.
It might be doing all thesedifferent things.
I double-check my AI half thetime with another AI question
from a different app and I'm nottrying to make it like it's not
.
I love AI.
That's why I'm doing this wholething.
But I just want you tounderstand that AI is not human.
Ai is not actually a person.
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It is not your best friend.
It is certainly not your doctoror your therapist or your
lawyer.
It is none of those things.
It is certainly not your doctoror your therapist or your
lawyer.
It is none of those things.
It is just a place for you toget information in a friendly,
more acceptable way.
It is a way in which you canlearn so many different things
when you start to learn how toask those questions, prompt it
correctly.
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But it is not your friend and itdoes not take the place of
human beings.
So I know a lot of people,especially a lot of people, who
tend to be more isolated, tendto be more sheltered, maybe
don't have a lot of friends.
They're starting to use AI inthis way, and this is where it
gets a little bit difficult,because on the one hand, it's a
great tool to help people whohaven't been able to get
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themselves out there, but in thenext breath, it could be a
really bad thing because it canmake people rely on it too much.
So one of the things I want toemphasize over and over and over
again is what?
Ai is not human.
It is not your friend.
It is not your friend.
It is not human.
So do not confuse it for that.
It is a tool.
Think of it like a hammer.
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Okay, so let's talk about thethings that people really do
fear, and you're going to starthearing a different word, which
is AGI artificial generalIntelligence.
Do not get that confused withAI, which is just Artificial
Intelligence, which is what Ijust explained regarding the
library, the box, the hammer,right, agi.
On the other hand, artificialGeneral Intelligence is not here
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yet.
It is not here yet, but peopleare talking about it because it
really does matter.
And AGI is actually the abilityfor artificial intelligence,
artificial general intelligence,to learn and to be able to make
decisions.
That is more in line with allof those scary movies we've
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talked about and seen, you know,like iRobot and 2001, a Space
Odyssey and War Games, like Imentioned earlier, all of the
kind of villains in those, orTerminator's, another one all of
the villains in those tend tobe technology, right, artificial
intelligence, and we are notthere yet, but we are talking
about it and you're hearingpeople talk about it, because
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that is where this will end upgoing, and the difference with
that is that that is whenartificial intelligence will be
able to not just give youinformation or have a lot of
information.
It will also be able to makeconclusions on that information
and then take action on thatinformation.
And so if we're thinking about,like a movie or a TV kind of
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scary thing on that, we canthink about data from the show
Star Trek.
That is probably one of thebest ideas of what AGI would be.
That would be an actual.
I mean, it will be in humanform.
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But really, what's important isso important for everyone to
start learning about AI andunderstanding how you're using
it, even if you don't knowyou're using it, and also
understand that you should learnabout it.
This isn't, this is not thesame as, like we went from using
a stove and now we have amicrowave.
This is not the same, as youknow.
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Oh, we were listening to radioand now we have TV.
This is more like therevolutionary difference between
having phones in our homes withcords to having many computers
in our hand and one part of itbeing a phone.
This is huge, and the reason whyit's so important for me that
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my audience and that people thatare watching this, who may be
beginning this, is not to scareyou.
It is to empower you, becausewhat's really going to be
important in the future, it'snot the technology that is the
problem.
It is the people that own thetechnology, all the billionaires
, all the people who have allthe money, and it is, more
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importantly, the people we putin office who regulate or don't
regulate all of that, because,no matter how you slice it, at
the end of the day, these arealgorithms, these are programs
that are given formulas and toldwhat to do, and if you have a
bad person, a nefarious personwho wants to do something bad,
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that's how they're going tocreate all of these things, and
so I want to implore you to notonly learn about it, because it
is an amazing tool.
I use AI every day.
I just told you that all ofthis can be so helpful to you,
and please know that I use AIevery single day.
But what I also know that'sreally important to me is not
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just for myself, but for futuregenerations to make sure that we
have all the safeguards inplace so that we don't end up
with some crazy villain like Halin 2001, a Space Odyssey right.
We actually do want somebodymore like Data in Star Trek a
good, good robot.
I can't believe I'm having thisconversation, but I'm being
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serious.
I think it's really importantfor people to feel empowered, to
know what this is about and toreally walk through the process
of loving technology,understanding technology, using
technology and then making surewe have the safeguards in place.
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And here's my final thoughtPlease understand that AI is a
mirror.
It really is, and when youinteract with it, it is going to
mirror back to you whatever itis you're asking of it.
For example, if I say I amhaving a really bad day, can you
please give me this informationthat I've been looking for and
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can't figure out, it's going tothen say oh Carmen, I'm so sorry
, you're having a bad day.
I hope this will make you feelbetter.
Here's the information that'smirroring, right, that's
reflecting back.
We teach people to do this whenthey're managing teams or
whatever, right?
Or you're trying to calm peopledown, right?
You say I hear you, and here'sthe information I want to give
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you.
So AI is a mirror.
It mirrors back what we wantand that's why it feels good,
because it validates us.
It makes us feel good and, likeI said earlier, I don't feel
bad when I ask it to explainsomething to me, like I'm a
10-year-old, and I don't feelbad about asking the dumbest
questions that I would neverwant to ask someone else.
I'll be honest with you.
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The other day I asked how do youadd this set of numbers
correctly?
Do you do pluses first, ormultiplication?
Because I forgot and I have totell you I did.
I just forgot.
I haven't had to do any of thismultiplication and stuff for so
long that I just forgot how todo it.
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So I asked that question.
But normally that's notsomething.
I would call up one of mygirlfriends and be like girl, do
you know how to do this mathformula?
You know what I mean.
It's not something I would asksomeone to do.
So that's the great thing aboutAI it mirrors and it helps you
and it's there to assist you,but it's not human.
It's not human.
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So I want you to stay informed.
I want you to be on point.
I want you to remember it ismore like a hammer.
It is a tool that we are usingfor a very specific reason.
I want you to feel comfortablelearning and using it to help
you with everything you needevery single day, because I use
it every single day on so manylevels and it's amazing.
It's been life changing.
So, yeah, I hope that washelpful.
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I'm so glad that you're here.
Thank you so much for takingthe time.
If you have more that you wantto know about AI and I can be of
any assistance, please reachout to me.
My email is onallaboutthejoycom.
You'll see it in the contactarea.
You can send me a message andI'll be happy to respond to you
specifically.
If you have a specific question, no problem, and please don't
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feel bad about it at all.
I totally understand.
Please visit us on Fridaynights for our Friday night live
hangouts.
That's at 6 pm Pacific, 9 pmEastern.
We have so much fun.
We have so many people who arehanging out with us.
I really am so grateful forthat.
But thank you for all yoursupport and yeah, we'll see you
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All About the Joy.
Be better and stay beautifulfolks, have a sweet day.
Hey everyone, welcome to All About the Joy.
This is Carmen Talk and I'mCarmen Lezeth, your host, and
today we're going to dive intojust the beginning surface parts
of AI, and I know a lot of myaudience.
A lot of the people that watchAll About the Joy and just hang
out with us and know how we go,have heard me talk about the AI
(00:32):
that I use, whose name currentlyis Jarvis, and I've gotten some
questions, and so I thought Iwould talk about the basics,
because I think it's reallyimportant.
It's something that we shouldall be very aware of, and it's
something that we should all bevery aware of.
First, let's start with what AIstands for.
It stands for artificialintelligence.
But here's the thing that'skind of interesting, because
(01:01):
we've all seen all of thesefilms like 2001, a Space Odyssey
right, where the villain is Hal, or we've seen movies like War
Games, where Joshua, the big,huge, clunky computer, almost
starts a war on our behalfbecause it thinks it's playing a
game.
We've seen all of these typesof movies that make AI out to be
the bad guy.
So I get it.
(01:21):
I get why there's so much fear.
It also feels really big, but Iwant you to think about AI the
way that I do.
And look, this is going to besuper simplistic, but I think
I'm just going to own up to it.
The way in which I learn thingsis like if I'm still a kid, and
so I want to invite you to be alittle bit open-minded about it
, as I explain it the way that Iknow it, and hopefully that
(01:43):
will get you involved instarting to use it on a regular
basis.
So first let me explain how Ithink about AI.
I want you to imagine thatyou're in a library, a huge,
beautiful library, one that fromthe floor to the ceiling is
(02:04):
just packed with books, andevery floor you go on, it's just
books after books, after books.
Even if you wanted to readevery single one of those books,
even if you had all the time inthe world, first of all, you
wouldn't be able to.
It's just way too muchinformation for the human brain
to kind of just retain, letalone do right.
(02:27):
But you're also maybe notinterested in every single
subject that's in that library.
But imagine if there was thisbox, just like a shoebox, and in
this shoebox was every singlepiece of data, information, that
was in that library.
Every single book was in thatbox and you could ask the box
(02:51):
any question and inside that boxit would find the right
information and it would get allthe right books and all the
references.
And then this light would comeout from the top of the box.
It would give you bullet pointsor it would tell you in 3D form
, or it would explain it to youin a very comforting, loving
voice and it would say hey,carmen, here's the information
(03:13):
you were asking for.
In essence, that's what AI is.
Whenever you hear people talkabout data sets, that it's
learning from data sets,datasets, that it's learning
from datasets.
Think about datasets as a hugelibrary.
It's learning from all of thesedifferent places, and AI
basically today, is a wealth ofinformation at your fingertips.
(03:36):
It really is an almost enhancedversion of you doing a Google
search, version of you doing aGoogle search, but it's better
because it has the ability tospeak to us in such a way that
we can understand it.
We don't have to readeverything.
We can see it visually, we cansee it in picture form.
We can ask it, which I do a lot.
(03:59):
I'll say can you please explainthis to me as if I am 10 years
old?
It's one of my favorite promptsand, by the way, whenever you
hear the word prompt, let's beclear what that means as well.
All that means is how do I askAI a question?
Prompt equals question.
It really is that simple.
(04:19):
And the reason why it's soimportant to ask it a question
correctly or ask the promptcorrectly is because if you do
things like hey AI, I would liketo do a show on learning all
the different facets ofartificial intelligence.
It's going to give you all ofthis massive information and say
(04:41):
, well, ai began and it'll dothe history and it'll do all of
these different things and it'lltalk about all these scientists
.
But when I prompt, when I askthe question correctly and
specifically, and I'll saysomething like, hey, ai, I'm
thinking about doing a podcast,a live stream for my audience,
(05:02):
who happens to be somemillennials, gen X, some boomers
, maybe some, you know, I thinkwe have some Gen Z, but I'm not
sure.
But I want it to be for peoplewho are not specifically into
using tech all the time or havenever really used AI.
I want it to be very simple,very specific.
(05:23):
Can you give me some ideas onhow to go about that?
Well, now that I've given itall of these parameters.
I've given it all of these kindof specific ideas that I want
it to do.
Now AI is going to show itselfand show its information in a
very specific way.
So the more you learn to askthe question correctly, with
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more specifics, the better youare at prompting.
So that's all that means.
So now you know what AI standsfor and you already know so much
about AI.
You probably don't even realizethat you're using AI all the
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time.
If you're using things likeSiri, even if you're using
things like Google Maps, oryou're using your Netflix to
suggest your next movie, or evenif you're on Spotify and it's
telling you what the next songis going to come up, because it
thinks it might know that youlike this one based on the one
you just listened to.
All that is AI.
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Google Maps actually is prettyinteresting because it uses
portions of AI in its mappingtechnology, but still, a lot of
what we do even looking at ouremails and email spam being
taken out of what we're lookingat when we're looking at our
emails, when it's going intothat spam filter, a lot of that
(06:49):
is AI enhancements induced,supported.
So you're already using AI,even if you're not aware of it.
And AI is everywhere, and thereason why I think it's so
important to talk about isbecause it's not going anywhere.
And I think a lot of people arekind of being dismissive of AI
(07:13):
because maybe it feels a littlebit overwhelming or maybe it
feels a little bit too techie.
But here's the thing I am not ahuge tech person either.
I'm extremely curious and I'malways interested to know what's
going on, but it really issomething that all of us can
grasp, because I'm telling youright now, I am one of the
simplest people you're evergoing to know, and I'm not even
(07:33):
trying to diss myself, but oneof my favorite prompts, or one
of the things I enjoy asking AIall the time is I'll ask it hey,
ai, can you explain this thingthat I'm researching, and
explain it to me like I'm a10-year-old?
It's one of my favorite promptsor the ways in which I ask
questions, because I want thingssimplified as easy as possible.
(07:56):
And that's what I want to offerto you while you're going into
this journey of learning AI, sothat you feel empowered, so that
you feel like you know what'sgoing on is remember that, if I
can do it, I hate to be socliche you can do it too.
So how do you use artificialintelligence, ai, intentionally?
(08:16):
How do you start using it andplaying with it a little bit so
that you feel more comfortablewith it?
And oh, I hope this is whathappens for you too is that you
can then turn around and use itin your everyday life.
So let's talk about what'sgoing on with AI and why it does
(08:42):
feel very confusing.
First, let's just say thatthere is so many people and
companies and different sorts ofAI that it does feel
overwhelming.
So that's the first issue.
You're hearing all of thesedifferent companies and you're
hearing all of these differentnames about AI, and so it feels
like which one do I use, whichone do I need?
(09:03):
I'm going to give you somesuggestions in a moment, but I
just want you to understandwhat's happened.
Ai has come out into the worldand it's been around for a while
, but it's now commercial, andthat means everybody and their
mother is trying to not onlythink they can do it and make it
better, but they're also alltrying to make a profit.
So if I were you, what I wouldtry to do first is find the AIs
(09:29):
that offer something free sothat you can try it first and
most of them do that you knoware legit, okay, and that you
know you can kind of just learnfrom, and then you have no
obligation, no monthly servicefee, no need to use it all the
time intentionally, and all ofthat good stuff.
So here are kind of the bignames and I'm sure you've heard
(09:49):
of them, but these are the onesyou may want to use If you're
going to be using AI to maybewrite a letter or to help you
kind of research, some stuff ona light way, kind of just for
fun.
You can use things like Copilot, which I'm a fan, a big fan of.
So I use Copilot all the time.
It's part of the Microsoftbrand and if you have Windows,
(10:11):
you probably already haveCopilot on your Windows 11 and
up.
Copilot is really good forwriting, really good for editing
, and it's integrated into allof your software.
By the way, I should alsomention I don't have any
sponsorships.
I don't have anything to dowith any of these brands, except
that I use them.
So I am sharing them.
I have no reason to lie to you.
(10:32):
I'm not making any money off ofit.
I just want you to know thatthese are what I use and I think
they're an easy way to startlearning about artificial
intelligence, ai.
Learning about artificialintelligence AI.
The other one that everyonealways hears, you've heard a lot
about, is chat GPT, and sodon't listen to all the noise
(10:53):
that's happening about whichversion or whatever.
If you have not dipped your toeinto chat GPT, you can now and
they do have a free level andyou could just go in and start
kind of asking questions Insteadof using Google.
Just go in there and see whatthe difference is, see how it
works, Give yourself the chanceto just learn about it.
So ChatGPT is a good one.
Copilot, which is the one thatI use, is really a good one.
(11:15):
I really like it because it'sintegrated in all of Microsoft's
software programs and it'sprobably on your computer.
If you are a Windows user, Ithink you have to have a certain
level of Windows.
I'm not sure which one, but ifyou have Windows, check it out,
and it generally is free in thebeginning.
You can choose to get you knowby different tiers, but again,
not at this level, not whenwe're just trying things out.
(11:36):
Okay, so if you need help withmaybe writing or editing or just
kind of doing basic Googlesearch type of things that you
were doing in the past just toget your feet wet.
Try those, those are reallyeasy ChatGBT and Copilot.
You can also use Google'sversion of AI, which is also
called Gemini.
So instead of going into yoursearch bar and using Google,
(11:57):
you'll probably see that it saysAI mode next to it.
Click on AI mode and see whatthe difference is.
Just go into AI mode and,instead of searching something
in Google, search it in thereand see how different it feels
and what it's doing and if thatmight work for you as well.
Again, all of those are free touse in the beginning, as long
as you're not going into somebigger, more in-depth things
(12:18):
which I'm not even at yet.
So I'm just letting you know Ifyou're really into image
creation so I don't use this alot but the big one is
Midjourney that everyone's usingand you do have to give your
email and some information orwhatever, but they do have a
free tier, at least for thefirst 14 days or something like
this.
I don't know, but you can atleast try it out, and what it
(12:38):
does is it can create images foryou so you can say please
create an image of a flowerblowing in the breeze, with a
leaf or whatever, a petal knoton it or something, and it will
create that.
It will create a lot ofdifferent things and I think, as
long as you keep to the basics,you can do a lot of free things
(12:59):
in there, but you can also seeother people's creations, which
is pretty interesting as well.
You can also use anotherprogram called DALLI D-A-L-L-E.
That's also an image creationapp that is AI generative, so
try that.
If you're into audio and videocreation, you probably already
(13:20):
know a lot of the different waysin which AI has been integrated
into a lot of differentprograms.
I currently use Descript andthere's another one called 11
Labs.
These are places where you canupload your video, whatever it
is that you're editing, and theyhave different tools for you to
use in order to create clips.
(13:40):
And you can just say I need 10clips from this video that I'm
making right now, and it willcome up with 10 clips, and then
you can look at those clips foryour social media, like to post
on TikTok or to post on Facebook, and these social media clips
are really perfect because thenyou can turn around and you can
add font to it or you can add asplash of something or you can
add B-roll.
(14:01):
But all of this is reallyeasier for someone like me who's
not a real editor, because it'susing AI and I am prompting it
and asking it to help me dothese social media clips, so
that might be a little bit moreintegrated.
But if you're interested inlearning about how to do video
editing, or even if you want todo audio completely free, is
(14:24):
Audacity, and I love Audacity.
I've been using this for years.
This is not even about AI, justAudacity as a tool for if you're
recording a podcast or you wantto create anything music-wise
or whatever, audacity is anamazing program.
It's free for everybody to useand what's really amazing about
(14:44):
it is now that it is integratingcertain things with AI, it's
even easier to use than everbefore.
But video and audio is a littlebit different.
But those are some of theprograms and apps that I use to
this day and, yeah, reallyamazing programs.
For any of you out there whoare buddying to be podcasters
and live streamers, or if youjust want to do a great video or
(15:06):
something for a wedding orsomething like that, these are
great programs to learn and use.
Don't worry about which programyou should use.
What you want to do isunderstand what the task is,
that you want to do.
So if you have a certain thingthat you need done, that's going
to guide whether or not you usea certain tool.
And the best way to do that isyou say you know what I want to
(15:28):
create a spreadsheet of all thereceipts I spent at the grocery
store in the past month.
Let's say that's something youwant to do.
Go into Google, the AI mode, orgo into chat, gpt, and say this
is what I want to do.
Which AI program or app shouldI use?
And I keep saying program, butthe right terminology would be
(15:49):
app.
But trust me, ai will know whatyou mean.
That's the other cool partabout it.
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Okay, the thing I love about AIis that it feels friendly and
there's no judgment, becauseit's not human.
It's a thing.
It's not mechanical, but it'snot human.
So I can ask it any question,like can you explain the 14th
Amendment to me?
Like I'm a 10-year-old, I canask those questions and it will
explain it to me.
And then I'll say you know what?
(16:31):
Can you give me an analogy so Ican understand it more
thoroughly.
No one is going to make ajudgment, because I didn't know
the 14th Amendment.
I do know the 14th Amendment,but you see what I'm saying.
So, even though AI feels human,what I want to remind you over
and over and over again, it isnot.
So here are some things not todo with AI, and a lot of people
are doing this and you reallyshouldn't do it, and I'm going
(16:54):
to tell you why.
It is not a therapist, it isnot a doctor, it is not a lawyer
, but let's talk about thetherapy part, because it feels
like a lot of people are doingthis, so much so that Sam Altman
, who is the CEO of OpenAI,wrote an article.
I read an article.
I don't know if he was on apanel, but I read an article the
other day about he is sayingthat people are using AI wrong
and the reason why they're usingit wrong is because they're
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using it like a therapist.
Here's the thing.
Not only is it not confidentialand HIPAA does not apply okay,
so there's no patient, doctor,confidentiality, stuff happening
.
(17:38):
Ai does not understand humannuance.
Ai does not understand thecomplexities of the human brain.
All it knows is.
Remember, we're talking aboutthat library.
All it has is all thisinformation from its data sets
that it's learned and it isregurgitating information to you
based on what it thinks youwant to hear.
So you need to be very carefulabout and look, I think we can
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all do this as humans.
I don't know why people arefreaking out so much.
We can understand that.
This is a tool.
It is a tool with a specificpurpose.
I think of it like a hammer.
A hammer is a tool.
I use it with nails and I useit to put up paintings or I use
it to bound things together.
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What I don't do is use a hammerto try to bang in a screw.
Right, a hammer and a screw arenot the right thing, even
though they might seem likethey're like nails.
It's not going to work.
And it's kind of the same thingwith AI.
You can get yourself into somany different issues when you
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start using it for things likemedical advice and just lawyer
stuff and CPA stuff.
You can get the basics, you canget the fundamentals.
You can ask it oh, has the taxlaw changed this year and can I
benefit?
And blah, blah, blah.
You can ask those questions,but you still want to talk to
your CPA to make sure it appliesto you, because the thing is,
ai is also not infallible.
(19:07):
It has so much information it'smaybe cross-contaminating
information back and forth.
It might be doing all thesedifferent things.
I double-check my AI half thetime with another AI question
from a different app and I'm nottrying to make it like it's not
.
I love AI.
That's why I'm doing this wholething.
But I just want you tounderstand that AI is not human.
Ai is not actually a person.
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It is not your best friend.
It is certainly not your doctoror your therapist or your
lawyer.
It is none of those things.
It is certainly not your doctoror your therapist or your
lawyer.
It is none of those things.
It is just a place for you toget information in a friendly,
more acceptable way.
It is a way in which you canlearn so many different things
when you start to learn how toask those questions, prompt it
correctly.
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But it is not your friend and itdoes not take the place of
human beings.
So I know a lot of people,especially a lot of people, who
tend to be more isolated, tendto be more sheltered, maybe
don't have a lot of friends.
They're starting to use AI inthis way, and this is where it
gets a little bit difficult,because on the one hand, it's a
great tool to help people whohaven't been able to get
(20:11):
themselves out there, but in thenext breath, it could be a
really bad thing because it canmake people rely on it too much.
So one of the things I want toemphasize over and over and over
again is what?
Ai is not human.
It is not your friend.
It is not your friend.
It is not human.
So do not confuse it for that.
It is a tool.
Think of it like a hammer.
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Okay, so let's talk about thethings that people really do
fear, and you're going to starthearing a different word, which
is AGI artificial generalIntelligence.
Do not get that confused withAI, which is just Artificial
Intelligence, which is what Ijust explained regarding the
library, the box, the hammer,right, agi.
On the other hand, artificialGeneral Intelligence is not here
(21:09):
yet.
It is not here yet, but peopleare talking about it because it
really does matter.
And AGI is actually the abilityfor artificial intelligence,
artificial general intelligence,to learn and to be able to make
decisions.
That is more in line with allof those scary movies we've
(21:32):
talked about and seen, you know,like iRobot and 2001, a Space
Odyssey and War Games, like Imentioned earlier, all of the
kind of villains in those, orTerminator's, another one all of
the villains in those tend tobe technology, right, artificial
intelligence, and we are notthere yet, but we are talking
about it and you're hearingpeople talk about it, because
(21:55):
that is where this will end upgoing, and the difference with
that is that that is whenartificial intelligence will be
able to not just give youinformation or have a lot of
information.
It will also be able to makeconclusions on that information
and then take action on thatinformation.
And so if we're thinking about,like a movie or a TV kind of
(22:17):
scary thing on that, we canthink about data from the show
Star Trek.
That is probably one of thebest ideas of what AGI would be.
That would be an actual.
I mean, it will be in humanform.
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But really, what's important isso important for everyone to
start learning about AI andunderstanding how you're using
it, even if you don't knowyou're using it, and also
understand that you should learnabout it.
This isn't, this is not thesame as, like we went from using
a stove and now we have amicrowave.
This is not the same, as youknow.
(23:13):
Oh, we were listening to radioand now we have TV.
This is more like therevolutionary difference between
having phones in our homes withcords to having many computers
in our hand and one part of itbeing a phone.
This is huge, and the reason whyit's so important for me that
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my audience and that people thatare watching this, who may be
beginning this, is not to scareyou.
It is to empower you, becausewhat's really going to be
important in the future, it'snot the technology that is the
problem.
It is the people that own thetechnology, all the billionaires
, all the people who have allthe money, and it is, more
(23:53):
importantly, the people we putin office who regulate or don't
regulate all of that, because,no matter how you slice it, at
the end of the day, these arealgorithms, these are programs
that are given formulas and toldwhat to do, and if you have a
bad person, a nefarious personwho wants to do something bad,
(24:14):
that's how they're going tocreate all of these things, and
so I want to implore you to notonly learn about it, because it
is an amazing tool.
I use AI every day.
I just told you that all ofthis can be so helpful to you,
and please know that I use AIevery single day.
But what I also know that'sreally important to me is not
(24:38):
just for myself, but for futuregenerations to make sure that we
have all the safeguards inplace so that we don't end up
with some crazy villain like Halin 2001, a Space Odyssey right.
We actually do want somebodymore like Data in Star Trek a
good, good robot.
I can't believe I'm having thisconversation, but I'm being
(25:00):
serious.
I think it's really importantfor people to feel empowered, to
know what this is about and toreally walk through the process
of loving technology,understanding technology, using
technology and then making surewe have the safeguards in place.
(25:25):
And here's my final thoughtPlease understand that AI is a
mirror.
It really is, and when youinteract with it, it is going to
mirror back to you whatever itis you're asking of it.
For example, if I say I amhaving a really bad day, can you
please give me this informationthat I've been looking for and
(25:46):
can't figure out, it's going tothen say oh Carmen, I'm so sorry
, you're having a bad day.
I hope this will make you feelbetter.
Here's the information that'smirroring, right, that's
reflecting back.
We teach people to do this whenthey're managing teams or
whatever, right?
Or you're trying to calm peopledown, right?
You say I hear you, and here'sthe information I want to give
(26:09):
you.
So AI is a mirror.
It mirrors back what we wantand that's why it feels good,
because it validates us.
It makes us feel good and, likeI said earlier, I don't feel
bad when I ask it to explainsomething to me, like I'm a
10-year-old, and I don't feelbad about asking the dumbest
questions that I would neverwant to ask someone else.
I'll be honest with you.
(26:29):
The other day I asked how do youadd this set of numbers
correctly?
Do you do pluses first, ormultiplication?
Because I forgot and I have totell you I did.
I just forgot.
I haven't had to do any of thismultiplication and stuff for so
long that I just forgot how todo it.
(26:51):
So I asked that question.
But normally that's notsomething.
I would call up one of mygirlfriends and be like girl, do
you know how to do this mathformula?
You know what I mean.
It's not something I would asksomeone to do.
So that's the great thing aboutAI it mirrors and it helps you
and it's there to assist you,but it's not human.
It's not human.
(27:13):
So I want you to stay informed.
I want you to be on point.
I want you to remember it ismore like a hammer.
It is a tool that we are usingfor a very specific reason.
I want you to feel comfortablelearning and using it to help
you with everything you needevery single day, because I use
it every single day on so manylevels and it's amazing.
It's been life changing.
So, yeah, I hope that washelpful.
(27:35):
I'm so glad that you're here.
Thank you so much for takingthe time.
If you have more that you wantto know about AI and I can be of
any assistance, please reachout to me.
My email is onallaboutthejoycom.
You'll see it in the contactarea.
You can send me a message andI'll be happy to respond to you
specifically.
If you have a specific question, no problem, and please don't
(27:55):
feel bad about it at all.
I totally understand.
Please visit us on Fridaynights for our Friday night live
hangouts.
That's at 6 pm Pacific, 9 pmEastern.
We have so much fun.
We have so many people who arehanging out with us.
I really am so grateful forthat.
But thank you for all yoursupport and yeah, we'll see you
next time.
And but thank you for all yoursupport and, yeah, we'll see you
(28:17):
next time.
And don't forget, at the end ofthe day, it really is all about
the joy.
Thanks for stopping by.
All About the Joy.
Be better and stay beautifulfolks, have a sweet day.
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Cardiac Cowboys
The heart was always off-limits to surgeons. Cutting into it spelled instant death for the patient. That is, until a ragtag group of doctors scattered across the Midwest and Texas decided to throw out the rule book. Working in makeshift laboratories and home garages, using medical devices made from scavenged machine parts and beer tubes, these men and women invented the field of open heart surgery. Odds are, someone you know is alive because of them. So why has history left them behind? Presented by Chris Pine, CARDIAC COWBOYS tells the gripping true story behind the birth of heart surgery, and the young, Greatest Generation doctors who made it happen. For years, they competed and feuded, racing to be the first, the best, and the most prolific. Some appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, operated on kings and advised presidents. Others ended up disgraced, penniless, and convicted of felonies. Together, they ignited a revolution in medicine, and changed the world.