The Exchanges

Q So Because I want to, I want this to be true to the non-technical person. So you had to set up a GitHub. You had to create a website. How did you create that website originally?

A With Codex. Yeah, so, yeah, so if we go back, this is something I did cover in my video, um, which you need to have GitHub connected. So yeah, GitHub is effectively a way for your code to be stored, and you can like have, this is like what a profile looks like on GitHub. Not a very good profile, but a profile nonetheless. Um, So you have these repositories, which is basically like, that's your project. So this one, for example, is my personal site. It effectively stores all the code files that you have, and then any changes you make, you commit them. So they're called commits. They all show up here. So you can see that it looks like I've been very busy. I sort of have, but I've been sending all these two codecs to do, and then you'll see some other Coding agents in here, which we won't talk about in this video, but, um, there's more other tools out there as well that I highly recommend. Um, so that's very briefly what GitHub will do, and then you have to create a new repository. So when you've got a new Like, you want to do a personal site, you want to do a marketing site, whatever you want to do. You're going to create a repository for it. Do you type in any name? You can make it public or private. Add a readme. It just explains what your project does. Then create it, and then you'll end up with the page that I was just on. Something like this.

AI assessment note: “With Codex. Yeah, so, yeah, so if we go back”

Q Um, Before we go, you know, you've been playing with Codex for a few days now. Um, what sort of best practices do you have for, for non-technical people who, who are playing with it?

A Oof, um, I'm worried about, like, what people will do and then call me out for. Uh, but I would just start really simple, like, use it on your personal site, or create a new personal site if your pressure's about yours. The, one of the first things I did, like I mentioned was like, okay, I've been on this no code tool builder for God knows how long. It'd be nice for me to just have the site in code so I can make any changes in any like weird and wonderful extra pieces that I'd like. So just do it line by line and like piece by piece. You can see all of these merge pieces, like add a food tab. I could do that in the code myself. Remove this text animation. Add keyboard shortcuts. Add a dark light mode switcher. So like all of those things, they're all like nice to have fun, interactive things that you see on other people, like other developers' websites that maybe you just don't have on your own. But I'll just start with Make sure you have a GitHub repo and it has at least a read me. So you can just enable that when you're creating one and then just go from there, say, okay, make a website with my name as the header, create an about section and then create like some social links and go from there. And then I think it's just, Playing around with everything, and just merge stuff, close stuff. Um, the thing about GitHub that is good, but it's not that easy, I don't think anyway, is…

AI assessment note: “I would just start really simple, like, use it on your personal site”

Q AI is deflationary. And, you know, she says it's deflationary, I think, because If people are going to be using AI to run their businesses and they might need less writers, they might need less designers. They might need less engineers. Uh, their profits, you know, could go up and they're also able to pass on, uh, cost savings to, to their customers. Do you agree that AI is deflationary?

A Well, I can see a world where that sort of stuff happens, where you need less physical writers, because one can maybe do the work of three, if you're producing content like that. Obviously very specific, very contextual writing needs someone from that experience to, to talk about stuff. So AI can, can push you and suggest things and say, have you thought about this as well? Or like, what about the safety of this? And all that sort of stuff, kind of like topics we're talking about. It's not going to replace creative thinking as a human, and I just think that, yeah, if someone can do the job of three people, Then why, why would businesses hire three when they can hire one? It seems like the same argument to say that, oh, actually businesses are now hiring contractors to do their content writing because their CEOs don't want to do it. And I'm like, well, yeah, that's how all of this works. Like you hire out for things that you can't do. And you're looking for someone who's the most productive person at that job to do the best job that they can so that we can do this thing. And we can charge customers, and we can make profits, and we can, like, build a good business. So all of those things still are in line. And I don't think AI will take all of these jobs. You're still going to need someone to, like, steer the ship and say, oh, no, this way, this way. And I think you need reasonin…

AI assessment note: “I can see a world where that sort of stuff happens”

Q Now you're spending a lot of time thinking about the world of AI, and I think a lot of people are interested in AI, and they're seeing stuff happen, but it's, it's confusing, I think, to a lot of people just to understand, like, the lay of the land. Could you explain, basically, what AI is? Like, let's start from scratch. What is AI? Why should people care about it?

A Yeah, well, I'm probably gonna butcher a bunch of things in this episode about AI, and I'm sure people will be very vocal on the internet when I do, but to me, I think AI is like a computer doing something for you without, with almost like a thinking element. You can go into the technicals of neural networks and all things like that, but to me on a very basic level, it's just like, it does magic stuff. And I know that's really fluffy, but I think when you, when you use some of these things and you see the use cases of them, you understand like, oh yeah, why, why isn't it that? And I suppose that's similar to the No code vain, where if you're, if you can't figure out a formula in Excel, And you're like, I just want to have this divided by this, then times by that. Why can't you write it like that? And then have the computer that does, has all this power in it to actually figure out what you mean by those things, put it together, write the right formula, create it in a code that a computer understands, and then pulls out the information that you're actually looking for. That side of things, people might understand a bit more where it's like you translating, What I'm trying to think of, but I don't know the answer to, and giving it to computer to solve that problem for me. Um, but there's loads of Different use cases. And I'm sure we'll get into a bunch of them today, like, um, ge…

AI assessment note: “to me, I think AI is like a computer doing something for you”

Q me feel weird. There's like probably a bunch of AI ideas that would be in the category of makes me feel weird. For example, like our loved ones that pass away and having caught and having the ability to have conversations with those people. It might feel good, but it also might make us feel weird. Um, so can you talk a little bit more about social implications and AI?

A Yeah. I mean, I'm not very well versed other than what I've, what I've sort of made my own thoughts about, which if there's, I mean, everyone's, I always, my job is to sort of look at all the good things about it and look at everything in a positive light and think, wow, how amazing all this stuff, like we get to use all this. Um, But also bad actors have all of that information too, and they're probably using it and they've got access to all these open source models on AI and who's to say what's right and what's wrong with when they have closed systems. And there's a lot of chatter about all of that. And I, I have no, I have no answers for people there. Um, and I just, my thoughts on it is we're going to be able to tell Actually, I think I'm going to kind of trick myself, but I'll carry on anyway. I think we're going to be able to tell, like there'll be, there'll be a system that you can plug in and say, tell me if this video is fake and it'll say fake or whatever. Like there'll be, there's AI systems. I've seen a few research, research papers on like detecting what actually is already AI generated. And even Google is not like ranking AI generated blog posts. And I don't actually know, or any content rather. I don't really know how they do that, but there's, there are ways to detect what is generated by AI, and I feel like there'd be systems in place that way, but also it's pr…

AI assessment note: “bad actors have all of that information too, and they're probably using it”