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- Wesley Grammer: I'll be working as a senior embedded systems engineer with that team, kind of programming hardware for the future of AI data centers and kind of working with a lot of the technology that's gonna go into those facilities and stuff like that. So looking forward to that and definitely fortunate for that opportunity. but in terms of what I want to do, kind of my experiences have like I I feel like I was able to utilize my kind of extra time, I guess, my extra year and a half of school to really hone in on not only what my passions are, but kind of what direction I kinda wanna go in. So I feel like it is obviously in the in in that field. obviously I wanna be able to make an impact in the field that is taking the world by storm right now. everybody's involved in it. Everybody has a hand in it. where my place kinda is in that, I don't exactly know yet. but I definitely want to make a positive impact as much as I can. utilizing the skills that I've kind of been able to accumulate over the past couple of years, not only with hardware, but just people's skills as well. see how I can go into this upcoming company and just different networking opportunities that I may see myself in in the future and just kind of drive the the the positive side of of the business because a lot of the negatives are being highlighted right now and there are still definitely a lot of negatives that can potentially be associated with the future of AI and hardware in general or just AI infrastructure data centers. Like obviously it's it's become a political thing to kind of talk about that kind of stuff now. And Malcolm: Mm-hmm. Wesley Grammer: I just want to see how I can positively impact that whole realm with the skill sets that, like I said, I've I've obtained from school being the technical ones, but also just my interpersonal ones that I've obtained just kind of from A and T, from my upbringing and stuff like that to see kind of if if if we can make it a little bit more of a a positive outlook and an optimistic outlook in terms of the future of AI and collaboration with humanity and just live living with this new technology because like I said it's it's it's a lot of negativity associated with it right now because a lot of people have I feel like mis mistreated it, mislabeled it. Malcolm: Mm-hmm. Wesley Grammer: done things with it that were immoral and didn't didn't have morals associated with them because they were trying to push their own agenda. And I just want to see how we can kind of assimilate AI into our society in a in a good way so that people are receptive to it and can utilize it as a tool that genuinely benefits them. It's not something that they are kind of unaware of and afraid of in a way. So pretty pretty broad answer, but I mean that's kind of where my heart's at in terms of what I wanna be working on. Like I I don't really wanna obviously like I said my role's gonna be a senior embedded systems role and I'm very excited for that. I'm very, very fortunate for that as well. But I'm not necessarily Malcolm: Yeah. Wesley Grammer: I'm someone who's more motivated by impact rather than specific title or role. Like right. I I I kinda wanna see as as anybody does, see how I can kind of contribute in a positive way to to make things better for the future of everybody. So however Malcolm: Yeah. Wesley Grammer: that ends up, we'll see, but be working hard always. Malcolm: Yeah. Yeah. No, that's a great that's a great answer, man. That's a yeah, no, that's a great answer. I think like I don't know. I'm hoping people really kinda like listen to that and just just honing in on like be I know like and we're gonna talk about this like in I'm sort of in detail in our in our round table discussion, which we're about to kind of pivot into, but yeah, that is a I think a big kind of like piece that you touched on, just like I think like AI kinda just scares a lot of people that don't And I also think like just like it also kind of just starts with like the mislabeling of AI. Like I think that people just kind of like like the term AI is kind of used like very freely and not really actually attached to what it is. Like I think like it's been kind of like labeled as just like this conglomerate of like all these different technologies kind of like messed together that just makes sense. I think like most people associate like chat bots with AI as that and that being like the extent of it. But and also people like hear all these like crazy stats about like the water usage in data centers and like the how it's affecting the power grid and stuff like that. And it's understandable, Wesley Grammer: Yeah. Malcolm: especially if you're living in those communities that really are being affected by like Wesley Grammer: For Malcolm: these big hyperscalers and data centers. So I understand Wesley Grammer: Yeah. Malcolm: both sides of it. But I think like you know, like my stance on this has always been like I'd rather be like I I I I would like to be like I'd like to at least p try to position myself that instead of instead of just being like reactive to like the stuff that happens like at the at the highest level, like I want to position myself where it's like okay Even if I even if even if I'm like a Sam Altman or Dario like actually leading the front the the largest frontier AI labs in the in the world, like I still wanna be in a position where it's like I know what's going on. Like I know like how AI is trickling down and affecting different communities. I don't I wanna understand like how this technology works and the and like I wanna understand like okay, like e even if I'm not able to control it entirely, I'd like to at least like understand how it works so that I understand the implications of it and and and how it can affect people around me.