Ten inklings, including how AI are changing entrepreneurship and why people vote for strong men/women
Keywords: Ai and Creativity. How AI will change the world of startups. Why more people are voting for strong men/women and some nerdy links.
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I also publish a podcast about AI, make dogs and their people happy, and aim to help 10,000 entrepreneurs launch a company in the next 24 months.
This study suggests that GPT-4 has higher variability in idea quality than humans. That’s great in creative problem-solving, where a few outstanding ideas are more valuable than consistent, average-quality ideas. Most of the top 10% of ideas in the study were generated by GPT-4.
Here are three traits I look for in entrepreneurs: 1. Agitation or intensity (how well they push themselves forward); 2. Gravity (their ability to tell stories and whether their personality will attract talent, investors, and users); and 3. Resourcefulness (their versatility in their personal tool set—do a lot with a little).
60% of Americans say they want to start something, only 8% do. I firmly believe that AI will create a range of new types of startups. We call them DonkeyCorns inside Audos. Sam Altman talks about how one-person unicorns will be made with AI. Chris Paik argues for the “End of Software” and Chamath talks about How AI Changes Everything We Know about Starting a Business. Finally, Erica Wenger calls it Elephants, Not Unicorns. The interesting question is also what this will mean for seed investing. AI can activate some of the 52% who, with AI-enabled access to know-how, capital, and resources, can build a new class of startups.
A wild but fascinating argument I have heard repeatedly in the last six months is that AI is God. Guy Kawasaki brought it up in a recent conversation. He believes AI can be seen as a manifestation of God. The suggestion is that AI possesses qualities such as immortality, omniscience, and potentially omnipotence, traditionally attributed to a divine being. You can talk about religion, AI, and the future with him via his trained chatbot or listen to our podcast episode “I’m Immortal, Baby!” Guy Kawasaki on How to Leave A Legacy Via AI”.
I am trying to understand why so many people in so many countries seem to vote for “strong men/women). Well-known psychotherapist Steven Kessler’s blog, The 5 Personality Patterns: The Secret to Understanding People, dives into the field of Adult Development, which studies the psycho-social development of adults. There are two main stages: Earlier and Later. The Earlier Stage is dominated by power and competition, akin to "Might make Right." At the same time, the Later Stage focuses on truth, equality, and cooperation, summarized as "No one is above the Law." Maybe a framework to understand why different groups admire certain leaders. In the US, about 40% of people are in the earlier stage and 60% in the later stage; globally, it's reversed, according to Kessler.
AI apps I currently use a lot: Perplexity for quick research. Claude.ai for writing. ChatGpt (app) for quick idea drafting on the go (using voice mode). Descript for fast podcast editing. Sanctuary for personalized meditation. Otter.ai for meeting notes
Scott Galloway argues that we are destroying young people’s future. It's thought-provoking, and he is always entertaining.
Other nerdy bookmarks: Try Pencil (make ads with AI) Connect your CustomGPT to Slack and Teams. BRAND.AI - An AI-based brand management solution started using it at BARK.
I spoke with a fantastic startup CMO who’s running a one-person marketing team and using custom AI 'GP teams' to handle everything from mundane tasks to specialized roles, making them collaborative and giving them personalities to boost productivity and make interactions more natural. He also give them proformance reviews… Its a fun (and most shared). “How I used GPT to 3x my output as a marketeer”.
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