www.youtube.com/@annajournal Here's Anna's channel

Welcome to the team Anna!

Lovely co-host, as a suggestion regarding spotting disinformation beyond not to be trapped in echo chambers and to verify info as well as those how provide it; Question everything including if you have the right question, if possible think it trough in multiple languages to escape the constraint of grammar and biased meanings.

Something I’ve seen as a manager, line pilot, an instructor. Employees often cannot see the big picture just like managers cannot see the fine-tunes details. Furthermore the priorities of everyone involved are often misaligned. I would draw a chart with 3 mountains and explain how if you were standing on a school mountaintop you cannot see into the valley 2 mountains over and vice versa. That’s why the new people and people low in the totem pole have to communicate and management has a duty to their employees to share as much information as possible. The decisions you make should make sense to the lowest person in the organization if possible. Most companies don’t do that, but in safety sensitive applications, it’s critical because leadership cannot set policy if they don’t know what’s going on and workers will ignore that policy if it’s stupid. Anyway, Anna, be cautious with what you say though, many companies do not operate with this sort of mindset. Many companies are vindictive

Hi David, I've been enjoying your channel and appreciated today's discussion with your Gen Z guest about the importance of communication skills in our AI-driven era. As a latecomer to technology, completing the Oxford AI Program last year opened my eyes to the possibilities of prompt engineering and data analytics, even without coding skills. I'm fascinated by the intersection of technology and human skills. As a Gen X Lean Sigma expert, I value working with tech-savvy younger generations to teach them about social skills and organizational change. Your insights are inspiring, and I'm excited to further my AI expertise and apply these skills effectively. I look forward to more enlightening content on your channel, especially the philosophical discussions about post-labor economics.

Good one. Would like more on this topic - specific skills to build in this era.

Interesting and warm conversation

This was a great video 😊. I feel like 2 people collaborating on ideas helps to expand out imagination. It was fun to explore some ideas outside of my usual thinking

Interesting to hear Anna, at the start of her career,describing herself as a polymath. Having worked in the similar as her for over two decades I have noticed a definite narrowing of job roles and job adverts down to very specific knowledge and experience requirements. Maybe the move to online recruitment, maybe increasing job complexity or lack of internal development and training.

Liked that format, thanks

Huge welcome to Anna!!!!!!!!!

Thrilled to have you on board, Anna! Your journey from the library to the forefront of AI in technology is truly inspiring. With your distinctive blend of expertise, you're poised to add incredible depth to our conversations about AI's transformative impact on business. Eager to dive into your experiences and gain your valuable perspectives on tackling misinformation and mastering AI applications early in your career, demonstrating that success in tech relies on skill and insight, not appearances. Here's to a series of truly enlightening episodes ahead!

My eldest is 15 2E. I no longer have any idea how to guide him. The go to was always get him to University where he will find his people, now I am not so sure. It doesn’t help that public education is doing little to prepare students for an evolving future.

Fellow MLIS! (SU ‘22). Had my “oh shit” moment when I started playing around with GPT-2. Took an NLP course and never looked back.

I work in customer service taking calls. I expect the tech to replace me will exist "long" before i actually lose my job (if it doesnt already) It just seems like in an unexpected way: politics and policy will be the brake on advancement as opposed to technolgical limitations... Whats weird to me is how we only talk about replacing coders or laborers when both seem to have way more obstacles to overcome than something like my position (security / consistency, and infrastructure / hardware respectively) But taking calls? OpenAI could outperform every agent on all phones worldwide by the end of the year... Its not that im so worried about my job, on the contrary: i COULDNT be more stoked about what comes next! Its just strange its not talked about how fast CS jobs will go... I predict fasyer than most of the ones people are actually discussing...

Employees learning AI is the best method to teach their replacements, plus gaining needed skills post-labor. Everyone, baseline AI training, full stop. CEOs shouldn't cut staff without integration first. 🙏

"The most valuable skills are going to be interpersonal, face to face, making and maintaining professional relationships." As a 99th percentile introvert? I'd literally rather dig ditches 12 hours a day than have that be any significant part of my life. I have no Fs to give for the repulsively phoney relationships that saturate corporate culture. They are violence at the level of the soul.

5:46 I agree. Learning how to learn and meeting others to learn from (not just instructors). I would be in my own intellectual bubble if I didn’t go to university. That being said university isn’t the only path to achieving that. I dream of salons of the past where we can all come together ( in person) discuss the big ideas without imposed hierarchy of academia.

I could be wrong, but can't you download these models offline and run them? I don't understand why IT gets so concerned? They should be learning how to build these offline. Shows lack of knowledge and ill drive to succeed

I really enjoyed this format and the discussion as a whole but I am a little interested in the adrenal fatigue/burnout point that was raised re-perplexity in that many authoritative sources including Mayo Clinic, Harvard Medical School, and the Endocrine Society as well as a couple of meta studies seem to reach the conclusion that it's not a real disease. The main points raised being that there's no sound evidence that stress impacts the function of the adrenal glands, nor that it can cause long term damage to their cortisol production, and that the symptoms are better explained by depression, sleep apnea, or fibromyalgia. On the other hand, Adrenal Insufficiency or Addison's disease, where infections like Tuberculosis or suddenly stopping taking certain steroids cause damage to your adrenal glands, and which can result in the same symptoms of chronic fatigue, muscle weakness, loss of appetite, nausea, joint pain, craving salty food, etc... are accepted diagnoses. It seems there's just a lack of sound evidence that stress alone can have the same effect, so I might side with Perplexity on this one.

Regarding the point about tools like perplexity and others being the new way to access information in today's world, an important thing to remember is they still all rely on the internet for their source material. I'd be interested in hearing a discussion on what the world looks like, what the internet looks like in a world where people are no longer going to websites for their information and there's no longer an incentive such as ad revenue for people to maintain those sources of information. This is something I really don't see being discussed, what does the internet or our access to information in the future look like considering AI tools Generally speaking rely on the internet for their source material?

Imagine having a digital twin that not only mirrors your personality but also upholds your privacy, autonomy and rights, while minimizing violent interactions, providing cognitive support, and empowering you to thrive in the digital age. ie a new interface to the digital world. This should be the default goal of all of these "future" AI product like rabbit or limitless and even so far as all digital input goes first to an AI to be placed in a RAG then submitted to "public" as "licensed content" which could be revoked at any time by you. I should have the right to be represented by a "bot" and that "bot" should fall under the same guide lines of protection as other privileged communication include attorney-client, doctor-patient, priest-parishioner, two spouses, and (in some states) reporter-source. If harm-or the threat of harm-to people is involved, the privileged communication protection disappears.

"real" human evolution will not come about by technology or even merging with machines, but by mastery of biological instincts and the ability of mental, emotional and volitional self awareness followed by choice guided by deeper wisdom which in return requires copious amounts of self reflection, discipline and true understanding of cause and effect. And yes... defining wisdom by merely the ability to postpone gratification is a philosophical disaster of epic proportions^^

ironically, I think librarians will not be automated anytime soon

yeah here from brasil, we are like super behind it, i worked in qa on it, and the owner was like an american boomer, they should have invested in ai tools for management because ohhh boy its horrible

Two beautiful minds trying to distill the past the present and the future in the new AI world to come.🤖🌎 ✌️🤟🖖

You should have time stamps

49:42 would like this reference.

I wonder what an AI would be like, that is the most consistant Christian.

"Boomers are Bots!????" hey...I've been called a lot of things but no way do I resemble a bot...a barrel maybe but not a bot.

Poughkeepsie.....93...

Given your background in automation coupled with the tools you are using/building: Have you yet gleaned any interesting insights from your growing wealth of YT analytics data? You already see subtle things like the preponderance of discussions in one geographical region relative to others, but have you built something (or asked Claude lol) to analyse your YT data for... whatever? lol i dont even know what you could find in there, but the growing amount of realtime factual data you are builfing might share secrets... If so share them with me too! lol Just the silly stuff... Like people in Brazil use words with fewer vowels between the hours of blah blah... I dunno... you just seem like the type to have noticed something interesting. ..

Welcome, Anna! A note - when you speak in vocal fry, it is really unpleasant for people like me with misophonia. Again, welcome! :)

Anna, thank you for joining with David. It was truly good to hear. Two beautiful minds trying to distill the past the present and the future in the new AI world coming.🤖🌎 "I'll stop the world and melt with you. You've seen the difference, and it's getting better all the time. There's nothing you and I won't do..." It was about Anna's second or third word when modern english kicked in, in my head. The perplexity of it all. Those tools that we've built in our own minds. I kept trying to distill an image of her from her words in my own mind. For some reason my broken brain kicked out modern english, not even on my playlist. Perhaps it was just the vibe I got from the conversation you two we're having. If you were both tools I'd keep you both in the top drawer. I know it's a podcast but is it possible to have a video podcast? At least for this KZfaq channel? Not sure if that violates some code for broadcasting on other channels. It's just my brain. I try to read those faces. It was like a chinese puzzle box without any pictures. Potentially thousands of words in just one image. Those things you see when you watch someone speak. Even if they are sitting still saying no words a thousand things can be seen... Regardless it was still a beautiful thing. Thank you both.✌️🤟🖖

Strange that she left, as there’s such a bright future in libraries. So how was the casting coach? Did she taste as good as she sounds?

i think the fact that most people are already consuming mostly ai content is just the nw normal that they dont realized

I don't understand what qualifications she has to work at a tech company after coming from a librarian position.

This interview was kinda meh, not really discovering anything new

Just had the time to listen to this. Quite cool discussion; nice to hear the experience from someone outside (or coming to) tech; also Brazil mentioned 🟩🟨 fun fact: being a terminally online citizen, I've listened to this while mowing the lawn with a noise-cancelling headphones, praised be tech