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Truly great stuff Jamie, this is fantastic. The AI engines are fun to play with, and they will provide a lot of tools for creatives and technologists alike. I'm old enough to remember all of the pundits who proclaimed that Movies would die because we could buy video tapes, then music industry would die because of music sharing, both legal and illegal. Industries survive because they change to use what's new.
I worked in web hosting, as a system admin, in 2010 and 2011, WordPress was the disruptor back then. It was going to ruin the web because fools could generate these plugins, and trust me, there were a bunch of those kinds of plugins that we would have to pull out, otherwise, the site would not work.
Things change, and it's always going to destroy the static, but it can make creative companies and people shine brightly.

Amazing! Thank you very much for this one.

I uses the other day to write my first word press plugging using chatgpt. I been write c code for 30 years. I think we need to used AI as a tool and not refuse to used it because it not real programmer.

Thank you 🙏 for this 🫵

That was an excellent interview Jamie. Chris Lema was very impressive. More stuff like this please!

Brilliant. Chris is one smart dude. The one thing I’d add is don't confuse the noise we hear in our bubble for reality in the marketplace. It takes a long time for regular folks to adopt new tech.

Awesome discussion Jamie... This was an amazing, and insightful episode. Chris is great.

I got ChatGPT to tweak my comment (🤣) so here's the result!

Jamie, I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the discussion! It was truly amazing and insightful, and I feel grateful that you have taken the time to chat with Chris about this important subject. Thank you so much!

Lots of 'aha' moments - great interview, thanks Jamie and Chris

I’ve been replacing plugins left and right with code snippets generated from ChatGPT. Often, I’d end up using a plugin just to get one feature of it working on my sites.

I'm going in on chatgpt this weekend as an "assistant". I think the traversymedia video and then this one put me over the edge. Also on freecodecamp's channel recently there is a 5 hour course about chatgpt's api.

Great interview. I have a couple of points I'd like to make because I think there are some misconceptions.

The first is that LLMs just look up the relative probability and give you the piece of word they find. That's not how they work, at a fundamental level. The reason is that a ledger containing all possible permutations of 4000 tokens would be impossibly long to process. Which is why we have the "black box". In simple terms: these LLMs figured it out by themselves. We don't really know how they do it.

The second point is about the fact that if you let LLMs write for you you'll have low quality content. That is definitely true FOR NOW. But it should be extremely obvious to any tech person that it will change. And fast.

And at some point, content consumption itself will change. I don't even need to Google marketing strategy. WhateverGPT will do that for you better and faster than any consultant.

Finally, as I come from media, I believe the observation on media was too conservative. We already live in a world whwre getting people to consume entertainment content they don't know about require massive distribution efforts, at all levels. When people will be able to ask an AI for a film with the story and characters they want, which the very Joe Russo imagines possible in a couple of years.. then what? We'll keep doing digital marketing as before just because we believe in humans?

I don't know.. I think the age of reckoning is near and we should be more creative and think about the post-AI world to stay ahead. Not just how we can use AI to speed up the old ways.

Jamie,
This interview takes me back in time to the mid to late 1980s. In the begenning we wrote software in assembly language. Later we had the Macro Assembler and early C compilers, and then languages like Turbo Pascal and Visual Basic came along.
It was the wild west of micro-cumputer software. I remember when it was necessary for visual interface code to write directly into video ram.
We had to write TSRs which were small pieces of assembley language code that hooked into the operating system and output text, one character during each horizontal retrace and multiple characters within a vertical retrace. This was necessary or screen output would have been much too slow and if you blasted it directly to video ram the screen would turn to snow.
I wonder how many people watching this video even know what automatic Garbage Collection is?

Don't forget to hit the like button so the kitties get a little treat. Thanks mate. Cheers!

Wordpress is already using AI plugins but we do not hear or see anyone with this business ever getting replaced by an AI. Current AIs, does not have the capacity to create on its own, it could assist users and increase productivity and efficiency. Creatives are already using image generators like Bluewillow AI to cut down creation of images then does any post-processing procedures.

It was awesome Jamie, interesting questions

Yes indeed more content like this. Brilliant interview

Well, that was a well spent 30 minutes for me.
Exciting times are ahead. That's for sure.
Thank you.

Cbris' idea on per company datasets is good

I'm excited, thanks

Truly good content!

I have had exactly the same (but differently worded and targeted) thoughts as Chris about AI. I am an artist and musician of sorts, and all these ARTISTS WILL BE EXTINCT! clickbait articles made me laugh cos no, artists adapt. It's what we do, been doing it for decades....photography was going to make all art redundant...LOL. Yeah, well then artists just moved to the non-representational or used photography in their work! We will see those creative shifts in related industries as well, which is exciting cos we can take the drudge work out. It's about the work, people won't stop liking visual art, or music, or want stories or things to connect to cos AI exists. In fact in some ways it makes the traditional stuff even MORE valuable because the bespoke will become special. AI can be generic - and indeed you need imagination and a LOT of knowledge to train it properly. Who better than artists and creatives to do that? But I think the 100% human touch will be valued too.

I do think if a fairly stupid AI can take your job, it wasn't really a great job to begin with! And should have been done by machine, and then humans can focus on the creative stuff that machines suck at.

I just find people who complain don’t know how to use tech it’s kinda embarrassing. I see software developers like me not understand it. Like bro 😂 some people just have small brains and need things simplified so their shrinking brains can understand I mean look at society. We are getting stupider and some more than others obviously

I am flash generation. Thank you.

Most people are satisfied with one answer.
Do there will definitely be less opportunity to market ones ideas and products to the same volume of people.
The big corporations will get richer.
Sad....

Brilliant to do this set of interviews with the movers and shakers in WP and associated industries. Chris Lema's insights into AI are fascinating. His comment about humans "insatiable desire" was so startling. Just those two words made me realize AI is going to be boundless, if, as you implied, we don't settle for just one answer. Whew...thanks Jamie.

I am thinking about changing to WIX as I HATE the blocks. Have been blogging on my website for about 5 years. Have a great website provider and they are helpful but have advised can't remove the blocks. But they have always been Wordpress so that is what I am familiar with. But the blocks are a challenge for me; have tried to switch to HTML to make changes but I am not that HTML literate. Can use it a bit but not in detail. In fact my SEMRUSH freaked me out when I went to review my website after not having done so for some time due to my very busy schedule. My website has gone to crap with so many errors since blocks. Maybe call me ignorant as my degree is accounting and I have now got days of work to fix the errors on my website. This info was helpful.

Chris was great. Two things came into my mind while watching. When you talked about the risk of one screen just giving you the result. I think this will only happen for the most basic of things, like it already does with Google with a simple fact like a translation of currency or the time in another country.
The majority of the time we are looking not just for the facts but also for opinions and viewpoints and experiences. Personality too. So I think while some people already are churning out reams of AI posts, readers will begin to notice the lack of real personality and move on. I’m going to try use AI for any selling paragraphs to see if affiliate links may get some traction as I am not a natural sales person.
My other thought was when he talked about the Yoast example and reallocating staff. I think it will be interesting to see, think about when supermarkets began self service. Some may have re deployed staff but others reduced them.

Great interview Jamie, and thanks for introducing me to Chris!!