Ep. 219 DeMario McIlwain - Being Early To AI Cost Him

I wasn't studying AI in the beginning of that.

So you were asking about the passion.

That's when the passion started.

Not just in the trainings that we was providing.

Solving the

problem, but yeah.

But the understanding AI tools.

Because I was looking at it like this.

If you could take this boy from South Carolina, he can figure out this tool, create this thing better, faster, utilizing AI.

And like I say, the world wasn't talking about AI yet.

No.

So, you know, I spent a lot of my time, as well as my wife at the time, we started re-traveling again, educating people on artificial intelligence.

And it wasn't how to use it.

It was more so debunking the fears, you know, the thing of the robot coming over.

Right.

Well, that's because I do think that's a that's a big it's because I, you know, as we sit with a lot of business owners and stuff.

And so you have people in two different camps of either they're so afraid of it and they're like, I don't want to infuse it because I don't believe in it.

I want it, you know, and then, you know, you got to go, hey, look, you're not going to be competitive in your category if you don't at least understand it and find the power of it.

And then you've got others on the other side of the camp that are using it wrong.

Yeah, well, you know what? You can throw another slice on that.

There are people, there's some rock stars out there right now.

That's really, but I tell people all the time, you know, This is something that we really push hard, the understanding of AI tools as well as the implementation of AI tools.

But I live on both sides of those fences as well.

I'm on that one side of the fence like, oh, I love this thing.

This is like, oh, my, look at what we can do now.

I wasn't studying AI in the beginning of that.

So you were asking about the passion.

That's when the passion started.

Not just in the trainings that we was providing.

Solving the

problem, but yeah.

But the understanding AI tools.

Because I was looking at it like this.

If you could take this boy from South Carolina, he can figure out this tool, create this thing better, faster, utilizing AI.

And like I say, the world wasn't talking about AI yet.

No.

So, you know, I spent a lot of my time, as well as my wife at the time, we started re-traveling again, educating people on artificial intelligence.

And it wasn't how to use it.

It was more so debunking the fears, you know, the thing of the robot coming over.

Right.

Well, that's because I do think that's a that's a big it's because I, you know, as we sit with a lot of business owners and stuff.

And so you have people in two different camps of either they're so afraid of it and they're like, I don't want to infuse it because I don't believe in it.

I want it, you know, and then, you know, you got to go, hey, look, you're not going to be competitive in your category if you don't at least understand it and find the power of it.

And then you've got others on the other side of the camp that are using it wrong.

Yeah, well, you know what? You can throw another slice on that.

There are people, there's some rock stars out there right now.

That's really, but I tell people all the time, you know, This is something that we really push hard, the understanding of AI tools as well as the implementation of AI tools.

But I live on both sides of those fences as well.

I'm on that one side of the fence like, oh, I love this thing.

This is like, oh, my, look at what we can do now.