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#303 - Tucker's Wrong About AI—Here's What He's Missing · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  What are your thoughts on AI? Do you think it is a good thing that AI is about
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  to take over everything?
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  Or do you think we should pump the brakes a little bit?
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  There are many prominent media personalities that are out there.
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  And I go to Tucker Carlson, most notably, who are telling us that AI might not
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  be in the best interest for the regular person.
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  I would have to disagree, but do I have the popular opinion? I don't know.
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  We're going to look at this first of all. This is a commencement address at UCF.
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  This woman brought up AI that it's going to lead us into the future,
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  the next industrial revolution.
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  But the response from the students was not what you might expect.
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  Change is exciting, very exciting. And let's face it, change can be daunting.
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  The rise of artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution.
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  And then she's getting a lot of boos, a lot of boos, getting called out on the
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  stage. I struck a chord. May I finish?
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  So, yeah. So as we can see, at least kids coming out of college are not too happy about it.
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  Or do the UCF students, do they represent all of the kids? I don't know. I'm not Gen Z.
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  I'm not coming out of college right now. I am excited about AI.
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  I, but I know like the people that have been bringing it up,
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  they're like saying that it's, it's going to destroy jobs. You're not going to have a future.
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  You're not going to have a life because your life is invested in your, your job.
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  You know, that's, that's your purpose. You know, that's all you are.
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  That's all you, that's all you can be.
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  That's how I think, I think, and I, I recently, I just saw the movie,
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  the devil wears Prada this weekend. It came out.
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  I don't know if it came out last, the weekend before or whatever,
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  but I don't want to give anything away.
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  I'm no spoiler alerts, but the whole movie, it seems like it just,
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  this woman is tied to her career.
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  Her career is everything. That's all she finds life in.
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  And if, and she's go, it reminds me of the show, the office,
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  it's just like, they're always worried about downsizing.
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  I'm going to lose my job. And, and that's just like controlling your emotions
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  and what you're doing and like how you're, how you feel about everything.
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  You're, that's the lens you're seeing it through.
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  And I think that that is what I would say that people at the top want to make
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  the lower class, just the, or maybe the middle class, the regular people feel,
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  they want us to feel anxious and like that we're controlled and they have so
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  much power over us as opposed to, let's maybe break free of that.
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  I want to, let's actually take a look at this. This is Tucker Carlson with Kevin
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  O'Leary, Mr. Wonderful.
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  And Tucker had some interesting thoughts on this.
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  Well, it's a great thing. The American dream, if freedom and opportunity is
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  what the American dream is, then, you know, those are things worth dying for.
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  Yeah, I think that's what people are doing.
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  So the question is, is AI going to bring us freedom and opportunity?
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  Because AI is the big bet that the entire American economy is making right now.
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  And I want it to be a good bet. more than anything, but I wonder if it's going
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  to bring us freedom and opportunity. So let's just start with opportunity.
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  The concern that people have is that their jobs and not just their jobs,
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  but their purpose for being alive will be replaced by machines.
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  To which you say, that's not true. Great things will happen.
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  To which I said, okay, what are those great things to which you talked about Shark Tank?
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  So I just want to be a little more specific about what the upside of AI is because
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  then everyone will calm down and feel happy about your data center.
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  What is the upside? So right there, it's almost setting the stage of how you should feel about this.
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  Like right up front, that people's jobs, that's what their life is invested into.
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  And if they don't have that, they have no purpose. They have no meaning.
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  Meaning whereas is that the way that it should be
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  and could ai actually unlock something that we could find deeper
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  meaning a greater meaning that we could actually do
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  the things that we want i know tucker carlson isn't out there picking up crap
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  off the sidewalk or he's not throwing you know garbage into you know a garbage
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  truck or maybe doing stuff that like and there's nothing wrong with that i would
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  say there's nothing wrong with that at all but like it's not i don't think that
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  people, that's what they live and love to do.
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  I mean, regular people, their jobs, it's just, it's just a thing that they have
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  to support their means and their, their way of life. It's not their life.
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  And I think that that is the lie that most people.
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  Are fed that most people are told that this is
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  you and we can control you we have power over
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  you and the government wants to just put us
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  in our place that because we want
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  they want us to be little hamsters on a hamster wheel turning out
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  you know productivity whereas regular people if ai came in and was able to give
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  us a little bit of escapism do the things that maybe normal people don't want
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  to do that you could just be doing what you actually love and want to do and
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  find your calling and not be just so tied to just a regular J-O-B,
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  you know, just do something that is actually, because I, I feel I have a difference
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  of opinion between work and a job.
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  A job is just something you have to do. It's just something that pays the bills,
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  but work is something, a God ordained thing, good thing, something that you
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  find enjoyment in, you love, you like, it's like, and it's not this just pie in the sky thing.
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  I think that people, when people talk about let's slow down AI,
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  AI could step in and do some of the things that we don't want to do,
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  that regular people don't want to do.
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  Tucker Carlson is probably doing what he loves. A lot of people don't get the
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  gift of doing what they love.
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  And I think if we harness AI, we can take it and use it for a greater purpose
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  that we can actually do what we want to do.
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  And I think that that's kind of missing the point because it's,
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  Tucker Carlson, I don't know if he's had a regular job most of his life.
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  He's been in media and most people, that's what they're aspiring to do.
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  They're aspiring to have that huge platform, have that huge voice,
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  that megaphone that can influence, that can do wonders in this world that you can only dream of doing.
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  And just but to tell people
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  that let's slow down the data centers and i there's
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  a lot that's going into that but just like i think
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  we all we know there's something more out there that we want and
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  it's just this this normal mundane regular
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  life that we just think we have to do i think
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  it's it could come to an end but i just see the difference between elon musk
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  and and other that has just optimistic that sees a greater future reality that
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  we could potentially experience as opposed to people that don't want to reach
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  out into the future and pull it towards us.
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  They just want to keep everyone living in this normal, regular life that is,
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  that's not uplifting everyone.
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  That's maybe keeping you above everyone so that you can have your cake.
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  You can do what you want, but because most of these podcasters,
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  they're doing what they love. And I love what I do.
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  But to tell people that you can't do what you love, you can't achieve your dreams.
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  That's why most people want to do TikTok.
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  They want to get out there. They want to create social media content.
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  They want to do something that's going to bring enjoyment to other people.
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  Not to bring attention to you, but to bring more enjoyment to other people in their lives.
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  That's why most people coming out of college are going towards,
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  they want to have influence. They want to be an influencer. They want fame or whatever.
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  But fame is a drug. Fame is addictive drug that people can just get caught up
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  in and you have that and it could destroy you if you don't know how to control it.
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  You don't know how to like be there.
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  If you're not good when you get it, you're definitely not going to be good when you have it.
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  So I think there's a difference between just having influence and being able
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  to speak your mind and tell people there's better things out there for you as
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  opposed to just let's just keep everyone in the doghouse.
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  Why I get to live in my castle, my ivory tower, do my thing,
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  do what I want, because they need their jobs.
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  Let them have their jobs. That's their life. That's their meaning.
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  That's their purpose. You're going to take that away from them.
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  Really? Really? And I think that these college students that are coming out
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  in the workforce, that's just what they're told. They're told to live in fear.
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  They're told to live, but you're spending all this money to get a degree that's
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  really not going to mean nothing when you come out of the world out into the
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  regular world and you're not going to have a job there waiting for you a job
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  there like that that is that is your life that's what you need that's the holy grail a job.
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  Let's maybe like, if we can like maneuver past this, have the mindset of Elon
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  Musk, and maybe not the mindset of Tucker Carlson in this, in this,
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  in this specific instant, I think he's missing the point right here.
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  Obviously if, if AI took over and wants us, desires to start us to start worshiping
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  it, maybe we should pump the brakes then. I mean, yeah.
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  And if it wants to like, you know, Terminator style, just take over the planet to use us as a battery.
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  Maybe we should fight back. But man, that would be funner than just the regular
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  life that a lot of people experience.
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  And maybe you're a person that has the regular life and you love it.
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  But I just know that if we're being honest, if we're being honest,
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  seriously, I'm going to be honest with you. You can be honest with me too.
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  We don't need to put on a little, a little paint our face and be a little fake
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  little, you know, gremlins that just pretend to be like, everything's hunky
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  dory. I think things were more dory, you know, not as much hunky.
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  But what do you think? Let me know. Are you, do you think the AI is going to
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  just ruin us because it's going to take away our jobs?
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  Or do you think it could unlock things that people could do what they actually want to do?
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  It could free them up to do what they love. And it's all about how you receive AI.
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  If you can use it for your own purposes, if you can use it for greater humanity,
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  as opposed to, you know, that's why we need to check the people that want to
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  get up there and want to just control and, you know, for evil purposes,
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  you know, that's the battle between good and evil,
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  not between a machine doing something, a task that a normal human doesn't necessarily
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  want to be doing, but they're being forced to do, you know,
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  let go of the peasants, Tucker, let go of the peasants, you know,
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  we're just, we're just regular people too.
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  We want to, we want to get to that point, you know, where we're doing what we
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  love. So I think a lot of people feel that. Let me know, or do you feel that way?
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  Let me know, drop a comment, smash that like button and have a good Tuesday. See y'all.