Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons

Blockbuster Blueprint with Michael Simmons

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May 22, 2024
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In my last two posts, I discussed the power of the mental model approach to understand, prepare for, and capitalize on AI now and in the future:

  • Post #1. Most People Think This Is A Smart Way To Learn AI, But It’s Actually Making You Dumber

  • Post #2. This Is Exactly How To Train Yourself To Be Smarter About AI [TOP 100 AI MENTAL MODELS]

If you haven’t read these yet, I highly recommend doing so. They provide a foundational understanding, which I will build upon, and are the synthesis of spending hundreds of hours understanding AI via mental models.

To summarize them:

  • AI is the most important discovery in human history

  • It’s evolving faster than any technology ever

  • This makes it worth devoting time to more deeply understand it NOW

  • One of the highest-leverage but underappreciated approaches to understanding AI is mental models

  • I created the most comprehensive list of AI mental models in existence, and I created a GPT bot to explain each model (bot is for paid subscribers only)

  • In the coming months, I plan to create a short description of each mental model for you.

As a next step, I want to go from abstract to concrete. More specifically, I want to help you actually use these AI mental models automatically. And here’s the amazing thing, the more you use these models with AI, the more you can productively use the same ones in every area of your life.

With that said, I have an announcement…

Live Session On AI Mental Models Tomorrow

This session will not be a class. It will not be a Q&A session.

Rather, we’re going to roll up our sleeves together and attempt to use mental models to explore some of the most fundamental questions about AI together:

  • What will humans be able to do better than AI for the longest?

  • What types (if any) of empathy, creativity, and thinking will remain uniquely human for the foreseeable future?

  • What skills will become more valuable in the age of AI?

  • How can we use AI to learn those skills faster?

  • What decisions should we allow AI to make for us? What decisions should we never allow AI to make for us?

  • What are the largest safety risks of AI that we should be aware of?

  • What will the progress of AI look like in the next 3 years?

While AI mental models cannot definitively answer these questions, they can provide us with more useful perspectives, which lead to better answers.

I don’t come to this session with all of the answers. Rather, I come as someone who is very curious about these questions and is looking for better ways to answer them. With that said, my goal is to role-model my learning and thinking process so you can find nuggets you can use right away.

See you tomorrow!

Call Details (Paid Subscribers Only)

  • Day: Thursday, May 23

  • Time: 1:00-2:30pm EST

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