Zack Kass

And then the other thing was the keynote.

So Intuit had Zach Kass, he's the global AI advisor and former head of go to market at open AI.

And he did his keynote.

And to be honest, AI could have wrote his keynote.

So that is part of what happened as well.

And it's a different trajectory or different entry point to historical technologies in the sense that we had Zach Kass, who's head of go-to-market at OpenAI when ChatGPT 3.5, I think it was, the main original kind of kickoff one, launched.

And he was telling me they were going for enterprise and it didn't work.

And they were surprised the fact that it became more of a consumer technology.

Where do I download it from? And what version does it need to be? It's a big barrier and a big friction point.

And I think, you know, Zach Kass, who was the former head of go-to market at OpenAI, He made a point that I absolutely love about the initial launch of ChatGPT back in November of 2022.

And his point was OpenAI had released the model like six months before and developers could access it via APIs.

But it blew up when ChatGPT desktop launched because now regular people could use it.

lost a process, but hopefully this largely ends up being for the best for humankind.

For more on how AI-enabled breakthroughs could herald a positive new era for all of us, check out the preceding episode of this podcast, number 1037 with Dr. Richard Socher, as well as you can go back to episode number 975 from earlier this year with Zach Kass.

Those are both very positive, optimistic episodes on how Yeah, AI breakthroughs could mean lots of positive outcomes for us.

I for one will continue to maintain as much optimism as I can.

So what does Ready actually look like? Start with why this matters right now.

Zach Kass, who led GoToMarket at OpenAI, opened the New Orleans summit with one economic claim.

Intelligence is becoming a utility, not because the models are clever, but because the cost of running them has collapsed.

Capability that costs money.

So she's gonna have a really good conversation with them around, like, how are they adapting for the future, what does that look like? So you can get some thought starters on ways to implement.

Um, and then on Wednesday, uh, we've got our, an emcee, our own chief transformation officer, Lionel Moree, uh, but he will be introducing and talking, uh, a little bit about both Angela Duckworth, the author of Grit, uh, and then Zach Kass.

We do have Lupita Nyong'o, Jefferson Fisher, and, uh, John Sormbos on main stage as well.

I forgot them in that, uh, overview.

You'll be able to see the link in the show notes, but if you go to the Intuit Connect website, there is a link to sign up for the live stream at the top of the page.

Again, we'll drop it in the show notes so you'll see it, but we would love to have you pop in with us on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday for the live sessions.

sessions.Yes, and talking about books, if you want to prep, Zach Kass did also release a book, uh-

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Um, Zach Kass.

So Zach is a tremendous speaker, and he talks about how humans have much lower tolerance for machines making mistakes than human beings.

So when we hear about a crash of an autonomous vehicle and somebody dies, we have this huge reaction to it.

There's like 20 of us left.

Zach Kass, great conversation.

Yeah.

Really solid.