Dr. Nicholas Ingarra: AI, Faith, and What Makes Us Human

Well, my early 20s was an interesting time where it's like I kind of had like the ideal grasp of the world on certain things, too, as well.

I graduated in 1994, went right to community college as well to save some money that way, because when you're 18 or so, you don't really know what you want.

I changed majors about four to five times.

Then after that, after graduation, came back to get my master's and then some time off, worked on my doctorate.

I was very, I would love to kind of like punch my younger self would be the best way of putting it.

I was very arrogant at that time, you know, thought I knew basically like everything and thought I, you know, had a good grasp of the world on certain things, but I kind of wasn't ready for the certain things like the politics and certain aspects of life.

I needed a lot of maturing to do it at that instance, because I was I guess I don't I don't know the best way of putting it.

It might have been a little sheltered, a little too much or just, you know, focused on one little piece of life and not expanded the rest.

So could

you give could you give us an example

of how I was in my 20s? Yeah.

Like, you know, you said you had a lot of maturing to do.

What what are you kind of thinking about when you say that?

well, like what it was is like, like the, the big deal on the weekends was kind of like going out with a few friends, having some drink, you know, like having quite a few adult beverages, going to the bar to try to, you know, like meet people and certain things like that.

And then, you know, getting home like three or four in the morning and certain things like that.

So, you know, thinking how, Oh, it's, you know, it's like party time, party time and, and party time.

And then toward and toward the end of my graduation, it was like, um, I think it was like the last year or so I finally kind of matured enough in an aspect where it was like, okay,

I have

obligations I need to do.

Like I need to finish these lab reports.

I can't go out.

And I think a part of the influence could have been some of the friends at the time where we were at like different levels, I would say of certain things too.

They never quite, even though they were good, they were good people and everything too.

It's, And I never like felt a part of the crowd because I never got to have like those in-depth conversations.

Nobody, they wanted to kind of like hang out and do those certain things.