Motivational Speakers Are Like AI Hallucinations

Motivational Speakers Are Like AI Hallucinations is a formal presentation I have developed with a slide deck. Sometimes a slide presentation can be very helpful to keep everything moving smoothly and as a prompt when your brain starts to work against your information.

I was not going to post this video because I thought the presentation went so badly. Then I thought again, it would be good to show how even a subpar performance can be somewhat acceptable. This is especially true for those who I may be helping with presentation anxiety. Even those who think they may not become stressed can sometimes fall outside of emotional homeostasis.

Performing under stress and the internal noise it causes can also show how mis information is sometimes unintentionally introduced into the cultural narrative

This was such a shock because I have not had an experience like this, where I go into a sympathetic stress response, in over least three years. In the last three years I have given more talks than the previous 15 years. And probably have not a response this bad for over 15 years, so it was quite a surprise.

What went wrong with this presentation? first I forgot who I was quoting. Since this bit of verbal behavior is fairly strong in my verbal repertoire It really through me off. Then I continued to forget little bits of what I was going to say and I also mispronounced Roger Ailes name which made it even worse. while I am quite comfortable giving presentation with out any visual aids, a slide deck would have prevented this stress stacking cascade.

I good trick is to just make the talk a little shorter, which is what I ended up doing with this one.

I will talk a more about the mishaps of this talk in my next presentation.

Here is the transcription of the video.

Okay, very good thank you.

So I’m sad to see the guy that did the 1930 songs is not here. When I get home I’m going to be reading research from the 1930s about birds. I think you talked about birds. Herons, actually it’s going to be about nice herons as well, and jackdaws. But that’s not what I’m here to talk about tonight. I am going to be talking about something that you may have heard me talk about before and that’s misinformation.

So I like to reference, oh, the saying that people tend to believe what they prefer to be true. And this is something that I think all of us have seen. What I’m going to talk about a little bit is motivational speakers

and AI and how they can be very similar.

And motivational speakers like to use a lot of words to sound very convincing. And they always frame their message in a way that makes you believe them. But oftentimes they are sharpening, accentuating one part of research or their beliefs, and leveling or discounting another.

And this leads you to making oftentimes bad decisions. And why do they do this? Usually to sell their product.

So we want to always ask what is going on here. I think this is something that, I think it was Roger Ives recommended.

Some of you may have known of him. Anybody have you ever heard of him?

He actually helped get Reagan elected, some of these famous presidents.

Yeah, some people may not like him, but he was kind of a genius.

And we can use those without any preconceived conceptions as far as whether you’re liberal, whether you’re conservative, same question.

But I was on a June call yesterday with one of these motivational speakers. And I kept thinking he’s using 90 minutes of words to give me 15 minutes of information.

And I just thought that was a bit extreme. But the other side, I’m going to look at artificial intelligence. I know a little bit more about this than the last time I talked about it.

I have a friend, some of you have heard this story.

Beginning of the year, lots of new laws. He’s a real estate developer, investor.

He has a property he can’t build on. So he knew there were going to be lots of new laws. So he started researching on AI. He found all these new ordinances in the city,

wrote them all down, went down to City Hall to pull permits. And they just asked him, where did you get this information?

And he said, well, Google AI, of course. Google’s never wrong.

And they said, yeah, that’s fine and dandy, except none of these are real laws. They’re all just made up.

So AI, artificial intelligence, can hallucinate. He got home. He called me. I was telling them about artificial intelligence, hallucinations.

And there are a lot of reasons for that. But we don’t have time to go into them today. There is something coming down the road, though,

called a genetic artificial intelligence. Has anybody heard of this? Yeah, you have, where you can actually have agents that act almost like humans.

And I believe that in a year or two, few years, anyway,

we are going to have AI that can think almost like people that can be creative. And what does that mean for all of us people who are creative? Have you looked into this? Have you thought about it?

A little bit.

So just something, it’s a little bit scary.

I think that is going to do it for this evening. The one takeaway is you can start thinking about what is the purpose of the message, especially when you’re listening to somebody trying to sell you something.