Thriving in the age of AI disruption — William Poett // 9Q Solutions

Quotes

• "AI is bigger than 99% of the population recognizes. And there are scary implications. And I'm looking at this in three phases. Number one, how do I use it today? It's this power, unbelievably powerful tool. How do I use it to enhance my life? How do I help my team, clients, and customers use so like today, short term, and then keep a lens on? Where's this taking us?" - William Poett

• "There is now this unbelievably powerful tool on the scene. It's here. And no special operator on the planet will ignore new tech, and they will learn how to use, adapt, and deploy it." - William Poett

• "There's artificial intelligence, which has been around forever. When computers first beat chess champions, that was an AI. They were very targeted and specific uses of AI and social media platforms, but they use AI all day to feed you content. There's AI, just artificial intelligence, a computer trained to do a specific function. Now we are moving into this generative AI phase, which is different. So now we go into chat GPT, as a language model, we go into mid-journey as a graphics model, they can, for lack of a better word, CO create with us." - William Poett

• "The next phase is general AI. And this is where the smartest minds in the world are getting nervous and saying, just put a brake on it. And general AI is a super brain with autonomy where it can self-learn, self-correct, and use tools." - William Poett

• "The thing that I want everyone to think about is this technology, the penetration, and the speed of it are happening faster than our brains can understand." - William Poett

• "Microsoft researchers had access to the untethered version of GPT four, and in this lengthy report, they said it is showing sparks, and that's the word they used sparks of general intelligence." - William Poett

• "There are two things, anyone who understands AI should never do it. He said, number one, you don't want to teach AI how to code. Number two, you want to avoid giving AI access to the internet. But all that is here already." - William Poett

• "So general AI, which we're not at yet and trying to put the brakes on, is what everyone fears. And it's something that our company is my focus on this year, and it's all about alignment; the reality is in the next six to 18 months, we will have a brain that is 1000 times smarter than any human being lived. The fear is that things will get scary if we don't have this brain harnessed and locked into human values to align its core mission with humanity's mission." - William Poett

• "An AI-literate person will be ten times more effective. Does this mean you laid off nine people? If your company has an aligned strategy, you can now have a 10x growth phase and a 10x increase in your impact." - William Poett

• "There are two issues. One is the big issue: Can we harness general AI to the value of humanity? The more current problem is, in the next year, when companies are deploying AI, do they have a framework that aligns it so that it enhances the culture, enhances values? They don't unleash a super brain that destroys the company?" - William Poett