The skinny on what's happening in AI - straight from the previous live session:

Highlights

🔥 Meta's AI Investment Pays Off (11% Stock Jump)

Discussed at [01:00]

Meta's quarterly earnings report showed $47.5 billion revenue, beating analyst estimates. The secret sauce? Apparently it’s AI-powered ad recommendations driving 5% more conversions on Instagram and 3% on Facebook. Their shares jumped 11% overnight.

Kyle's take: This is how you actually make money with AI - not by slapping "AI-powered" on everything and raising more VC cash. Meta has built products that help their customers (advertisers) make more money. A 5% increase in conversions is great work in online advertising. This is AI being used to directly improve their core product. Not AI for the sake of it.

Source: Meta Q2 earnings report

🚀 Zuckerberg's ASI Push (And Why It's Marketing)

Discussed at [01:32]

Mark Zuckerberg's now pushing artificial super-intelligence (ASI) as the next target, leapfrogging over AGI entirely. He's spending massive amounts poaching talent with $100 million signing bonuses whilst talking about "novel safety concerns" requiring careful decisions about open sourcing.

Kyle's take: This smells like marketing repositioning because he knows OpenAI will reach AGI first. So he's downplaying AGI importance and jumping ahead to ASI.

Here’s the sneaky but though. That bit about being "careful about what we choose to open source" - sounds like Meta's closing the open source doors. They've realised they can make serious money from AI, so why give it away for free?

A shame as they are one of the primary (Western) providers of open source models. Looks like we’ll be using Chinese open source models instead moving forward.

Source: Meta earnings call commentary

🚨 Your ChatGPT Chats Are Publicly Searchable

Discussed at [46:43]

If you've ever shared a ChatGPT conversation, it gets indexed by Google. You can search "site:chatgpt.com/share" plus any keyword to find people's personal conversations - dreams, embarrassing questions, everything.

Kyle's take: This is potentially problematic.

People think they're sharing with a mate, not realising their conversations end up searchable on Google.

From a business angle, you could research your niche by seeing what questions people ask ChatGPT, but ethically it's a bit dodgy.

If you're sharing chats, be aware they're not as private as you think.

Member Question from Kelby Garside: "Thinking of using AI, where do I start?"

Kyle's response: Start with the free version of ChatGPT. Simply replace Google with it for search. Instead of hunting across multiple websites for information, ask ChatGPT to synthesise everything in one go. Perfect example: planning a kid's birthday party. Rather than finding separate sites for cake ideas, games, decorations, just tell ChatGPT the details and it gives you a cohesive plan.

Once you're comfortable, start experimenting with problem-solving - like when I used it to plan my entire YouTube studio setup. Have a problem? Give ChatGPT a shot and see how it does.

This question was discussed at [17:49] during the live session.

Member Question from Will (Computer Science Teacher): "Zero budget - best tool to help me or our school?"

Kyle's response: ChatGPT's new Study Mode is worth trying for this. It's free and acts like a personal tutor for your students. Instead of just giving answers, it gauges their knowledge level, provides information, then tests understanding with questions. You could give students prompts like "Help me learn about variables in Python" and they get proper one-on-one tutoring at home.

This question was discussed at [39:40] during the live session.

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