EP 130: Why Curiosity Is Every Agent's Competitive Advantage

So what was your first light bulb moment or a very big light bulb moment with AI?

So, you know, look, I'm a kid of the 80s with a hyperactive imagination.

And, man, I just couldn't wait for this time in history.

I knew it was coming.

I remember reading when I think it was 10 or 11, Isaac Osmoff's iRobot and going, man, thinking robots, that's pretty cool.

And, of course, you know, the 80s cartoon and all that stuff.

I was a big fan of Robotech as a kid.

Like, this was...

I was waiting for this.

So when I saw...

Years before OpenAI actually came out, when they were testing these things and the rumor mill was flowing, I happened to be kind of nerdy in that tech world anyways.

I was excited for what I thought it was going to be.

And when OpenAI delivered, I think within two days of it going public, I had an account sitting there like everybody else doing the same thing.

Like, you know, give me my bio better or make my bio better or help me with my website content or blog post.

But that wasn't really the aha moment.

I think a lot of people have dabbled in that stuff.

For me, the aha moment was sitting down one day and said, I'm very much into productivity and mental discipline, those type of things, because I have to be to control my ADD.

And I put a sticky note on the screen of my computer, and I put a sticky note on the steering wheel on the Tesla, and I said, it was handwritten, and it just says, how can AI help me with this? And it didn't matter what it was.

100%.

when i realized i could start talking to the robot and i started giving her a person out it is a she i have three beautiful adult daughters who have are having kids now so my grandfather married for 33 years if something is right all the time and quick to tell me that i'm wrong it's got to be a girl so i i just went with it i gave her an accent i picked one of the sound packs with an accent named her kit after the night rider car and when i named her when i started hearing a unique voice pack and talking to it, that sticky note of how I can help me with this became, it was the default.

So for 30 days, I had that sticky note on the desktop and on the steering wheel.

And I still talk to AI more than I type.

And it just started creating amazing things as it learned from me and as I learned what its capabilities were.

And when I learned how to frame both the settings and the personality and knew what the limitations were.

Like where could I trust it? Where couldn't I? How do I create prompts and settings that make it more trustworthy? That kind of exploded.