I've really been having a lot of fun with AI recently. After attending this AI conference, my views on the use of AI are shifting, particularly as I'm getting more hands-on with the technology. It should make for an interesting future. 🤙
Efficiency vs Deficiency?! Human beings always have to remember that 'tools' like AI need to compliment our lives, not overwhelm it. Using it to lend recommendations to compiled data is one thing, although firmly suggesting a course of action may be too decisive. If leaders at the top want to implement AI into business models, they run the risk of supplementing actual human jobs over profit. AI should enhance business, although I'm afraid that it has already taken away a good amount of human influences. To a great degree, in this day and age, AI is what the computer & keyboard interface was to the typical typewriter, it's going to change the way we do so many things. But we cannot let it dumb us down to be a slave to incorrect, insufficient and inaccurate data. There's still something to be said about human intuition, and heaven forbid they figure out a way to program and anticipate for that variable. Then the whole world becomes the movie 'WALL-E".
@@HelloFromHawaii As I've only integrated so much technology into my life, believe it or not...I still don't have a cellphone. So memorizing phone numbers is still a must for me; at least things like that helps stave off the effect of dementia. I still occasionally remember phone numbers from the 1980's.
Glad that you got to go to this, Chris. I was wanting to. Hope that AI will help with our governmental systems. i .e., services, welfare, etc. Isn't the truth that AI has been around forever and that we are just seeing a lot more attention focused on the scary stuff? ("it's coming for your job!")
Lol, Hawaii is soo behind when it comes to topics/subjects like these. Two or three years behind in every advancement and exposure to societal changes and technology shifts. As a local, I am grateful to have gained perspectives and experiences from meeting and talking to people outside of this rock, but I have second hand embarrassment that Hawaii residents are lagging behind and uninformed. It's quite unfortunate.
That's why I'm hoping we'll start working on these AI issues now. There is a lot of help out there, but if we reject learning about this technology because "that's not how we do it", we'll be left behind in so many ways.
Agreed. At most, Hawaii will only subscribe to these technologies, but they won't be players with advancing it or taking economic advantage of it. To take advantage of technologies economically, you need to take a look at technology communities like the Bay Area CA. I worked in the Bay Area for 10 years, coming out of college. When I first drove around San Jose, Palo Alto, Santa Clara, Mountain View, Berkeley, and San Francisco you realize how much technology is imbedded in these communities. Not just using software, but creating it and finding ways incorporate in our daily lives. In the Bay Area, it's impressive to see all these technology campuses, Apple, Tesla, Microsoft, Google, Ebay, Paypal, Facebook, Oracle, Intel, Cisco, RU-vid, Netflix, etc., all within walking distance of each other. The money involved to fund these physical campus and payroll has to be astronomical. Then you start thinking who's actually wandering the halls of these campuses... Steve Jobs (RIP)... Elon Musk... Zuckerberg... Larry Ellison... maybe Bill Gates, etc. The minds are all within walking / driving distance of each other. They watch each other. They monitor each other. They pick each other's brain. But most importantly they compete with one another. It's no surprise at how many billionaires have come out of the Bay Area. It's a culture very difficult to re-create.
I attended the conference. I followed the Workforce track. The Amazon presenters reminded me of Enterprise Resource Management promoters in the client-server days. One has to think of scale. Does AI understand small scale? Will AI help small business, or small public schools? I wonder. Will there be a Hawaii Citizen Credit Score? Or an Amazon Consumer Credit Score? Actually, it may only depend on how we spend our money. I'll watch the video now. Thank you. - Watched the video. I wonder how AI enhances job satisfaction?
I was hoping you’d share about the AI event you attended (when I read in your post that you attended). Mahalo for sharing. Got lots of thoughts about it but no time to post long comment right now. Just want to thank you for sharing
I've been playing with AI for the last year or two. It's really become something very different in the last year or so. I guess that's why all the hype. I would have gone to the conference if I'd known about it. It sounds interesting. I'm a software developer and while it hasn't gotten rid of my job, it's made it a lot faster and more productive. Combining the two has been a lot of fun.
Short term I don't see much changing. Longer term I can see it augmenting the jobs of 1) concierge 2) customer/reservation/restaurant support 3) tour guides 4) basic gov functions, etc. It might make these services more accessible to people who don't speak english or japanese since it can brainstorm activities, book activities, resolve issues with hotels, give guidance on government matters, etc in variety of languages without much overhead. I think humans will still be necessary in the medium term for people who are not comfortable with AI or to resolve issues the AI wasn't designed to handle.
It's good and bad, depending on who you are. If you're hovering around the senior citizen age, it's promising. Hopefully AI + robotics will evolve and take care of me as I get old. If you're starting or just graduating college with a STEM, computer science, or data science degree... I'd be somewhat concerned. Let's be honest AI can code and process data faster than any human can. And AI can do this around the clock, 24 hours a day, everyday, forever. Will AI make things easier? Yeah, very likely. Will AI eliminate human jobs? Yeah, very likely. Are there think tanks out there thinking of every way AI can automate things? Yeah, absolutely. It's here, not much you can do to slow or stop it. Just go with the flow. Let the dust settle. See what part-time openings are available at Costco
Yeah… although I’ve been ramping up for a year to incorporate AI into my work, I really just started doing it about two months ago. It’s helped me and it’s moving fast.
Thank you. Great questions and info. I just recently moved to Oahu. Currently work as a data scientist for 12 years. Would love to volunteer my time to teach AI in Hawaii across industries and schools. An initial idea I'd love to model is to use AI to predict what block areas and time in Honolulu would likely have a crime occur before it happens.
Mahalo for your comment. I think teaching AI in schools would be great. And I did see a model for crime in Honolulu based on current data. So interesting to see the data analyzed. Even had a map of where the most crime occurred.
Hi there. I recently moved back to Oahu after years on the mainland. I enjoy your videos and the way you look at the subject matter from all angles. When did the AI Conference take place?
AI is a great tool, people will learn to use it or fall behind. People who fall behind will make less money and work harder, BUT people have to learn to use it well to benefit from it. Sure you can use ChatGPT to write a 10-minute script on say problems in Hawaii, but it will not be perfect, but if you use it as an iterative tool to flesh out your ideas and teach it to use your voice, you'll save time and write better, just like the word processor changed us, so will AI. Besides, we are all using AI whether we realize it or not -- my grammar and spelling have been corrected as I wrote this, AI finds me new stuff to watch and helps me find deals on products I want. We are at the very beginning of AI, I don't think we can even imagine the future as it takes over. We have to hope humanity keeps the reins on it or it might decide it doesn't need us. BTW, AI is the reason I started commenting on your channel, I wanted to help boost you to support a local Hawaii channel and show engagement for the RU-vid algorithm.
Interesting video. Being one that grew up in the tech evolution of the last 30+ years. Maybe it should be reflected on what is left behind from the tech evolution? Visual what changes have been wrought by the print media evolution to digital? Has all print media been digitalized? Why not? Has all Americans benefited from print evolution? Who's left behind? As we progress, about faster, easier, more productive, who gets left behind? Is profitability the goal or easy? Think of the simple calculator and mathematics? Early man counted, using digits, then markings/beads, the abacus, tallying machines, cash registers, printing tabulators, electronic adding machines, calculators. Now, think of simple mathematics tests. Now how is math done now? Could an engineer now using manual tools build the pyramid? As man evolves, from simple life, he is survived by doing many skills, as they evolve, the labor of production increased making more productive to become less skilled in other skills. Will A.I. multiple that less skill whether physical, intellectual, emotional, mechanical? Unlike ants, termites, bees, the collective is paramount. Humans aren't collective hives; they are collective communities of mutual gain.
@HelloFromHawaii : Economies of scale. Think of the technology required to establish A.I. The computing power of machines, data storage, processing, relationships needed of A.I. becoming intuitive or make a prediction. Our mobile phone is in itself a mini computer, it's handheld phone but communicates our queries based on preset pathways of programming. It can do searches based on queries/digital search and maybe some audio queries, but the processing is telecommunicated via digital connection of signal. Like the Lahaina fire disruption of signal/power or both, A.I. has it's con. Data repository/connectivity will also be impacted. What would be the cost benefit effectiveness of A.I. in what factors of life? Would an A.I. controlled smart car be able to predetermine the best route based on location? Traffic? Accidents? Or only known data? Was it Eddison or defining genius of 1% inspiration versus 99% perspiration? Can A.I. make an intuitive leap of thought?
I think you brought up all the problems with AI that makes it really hard for Hawaii to adopt. But at the same time I think AI can fix some of those problems. Some of Hawaii’s tendencies that make us slower to adapt. I’m not personally for AI. More so because AI is being used so poorly. It shows that we aren’t ready to start introducing it. It’s making regular people’s lives harder and more stressful. That being said I agree with a lot of the points you made and am glad that as someone who is pro AI you are thinking about those things. I feel like not enough people are.
Mahalo for sharing. I think you bring up a good point in that we are sometimes using AI poorly. Hopefully people will start to use it more responsibly.
AI conversations are nuanced. Much hype about some of the benefits it will yield. The hype always sounds good until you get into the down side of it. And make no mistake there IS a downside waiting to manifest itself. By virtue of the inescapable reality that AI doesnt invent itself. It is a product of human beings. And human beings for good reason have learned to approach this subject with due caution. Due caution because people dont trust the long term consequences of it nor the long term intentions of some behind it.
The thing I think of whenever I hear AI discussed is "How am I going to use it, or need to use it?" Like the internet, AI is one of those things where some people are more uniquely positioned to start using it right away before its full potential is revealed. Likewise, there are some who are excited to explore how to use it before they have a need. However, most people are so busy just going about their lives and will remain blissfully ignorant until they have to use it. They don't care to think about how it could change their life. For myself, I don't even know how or where to begin to use it, and currently don't see a need for it in my life. I'm in my mid-60s. The people who are in the first two groups are the ones who will be in a position to profit the most financially from the use of AI in the long term. From them will come the Elon Musks, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerbergs of the future. Maybe this is what the Hawaiians will need to be able to buy back all the prime Hawaii real estate in the future - as pioneers of AI, get obscenely wealthy to the point that there is nothing they can't afford.
I think morals and ethics of the topic of AI needs to be considered more. Customer service jobs are easy to eliminate it with it, but those are great jobs for teaching people skills for a better society. Especially restaurant jobs. Now if you're at the top, and just looking at the bottom line, it totally makes sense. But if you have ever worked your way from the bottom, then you know those essential skills that are taught in jobs like those. Grit, determination, respect, multi-tasking, time management, people skills, communication, conflict resolution, sales, marketing, public relations, teamwork... you know all of those skills you would want to see at the top of an organization. And we all know experience speaks more volumes than any book/school could.
I personally don't have any idea how it is or isn't good for Hawaii other than in government, maybe then we'd finally get efficiency, and not just there but everywhere! Maybe it would also eliminate or at least reduce corruption, but that's doubtful. However, if it eliminates officials who are only there for Money and not the community surely that's a good thing. The bigger issue with it is the fact of how many average folk it removes from the workforce, and as you mention it's going to be very long time before blue collar work is eliminated. Such as mechanics, appliance repair etc. That won't happen until the melding of Robotics and AI are 100% successful and I suspect it will hit fast food/service industry first before we start seeing robots building houses and such. Or heaven forbid robotic health professionals. And granted we're a long ways away from the possibility of dystopian future where there's not longer a need for humans anymore to slave away for the elites, but I fear once AI is perfected and there are essentially no more jobs for the people there will be laws against procreating...
It would be good to use AI for describing how the islands came to be and the history the birds the trees all the interesting stuff that people would like to know more about
Did Hurricane (Tropical storm??) Gilma spare you guys? Our thoughts and prayers are with you. On AI, companies and individuals who find a way to embrace it will win, others will be left behind or fall by the way side.
I expect the wage gap between white and blue collar to close. Blue collar jobs aren't impacted as much by the new AI. White collar jobs are. Which means the demand for white collar jobs will fall long term (decades in the future). This generally means wage will go up for blue collar (as demand continue or increase), go down for white collar (as demand goes down).
My brother's employer (one of the top local contracting companies on the Big Island) doesn't even have direct deposit for their paychecks. Having their admin staff use AI would probably force them into retirement. 😂
Vibe check: it's gonna be more chaotic good. Not even chaotic neutral (Hawaii traffic is chaotic neutral. Chaotic evil is Grand Theft Auto. ) Chaotic good alignment. Timestamp: 5:55 My bet is that wages will not proportionally increase, and you're right about the middle-man-woman-person being squeezed out for efficiency and cost cutting. Outcomes matter only in our current paradigms (which lag in island time, absolutely). Ends will justify means, despite collateral damage of blue collar entry level job loss. Show how customer service, administrative assistant, pharmacy tech, mental health tech, education, hospitality and health job quality is solidified by a computerized work force and you will garner buy in so fast, you just have to say: yessuh, we bang 'em with double handed hammahs, let's gooooo. The wage gap will widen. There will be cut personnel. Innovation in desperate economic times like these is like giving hammers to 2 year olds. The enthusiasm is fo'real brah in this new economic ecology. The knowledge innovation and protocol innovation is worth the novelty and....sad to say...maybe the sacrifice and collateral damage. It's like the energy of Deadpool and Wolverine collaboration. Outcomes! Outcomes! L.F.G!!!!
Thanks for bringing up a lot of great points. I hadn't thought about what desperate economic times may bring about. Might not be the best outcomes when businesses are pressured so much these days.
AI will eventually affect all the Workforce in Hawaii.The akamai entrepreneurs in Hawaii will find ways to use AI rather than be used by it. It’s already here and will continue to be developed. Although you might not want to use AI in your RU-vid, someone else will use AI to create content, music, video, humor and empathy into their Hawaii RU-vids. Crank out new quality content several times a day. They could become the go RU-vid for all things Hawaiian. Cultural, historical, educational, political etc. My suggestion is to learn about AI and how to apply it. Walmart already has a large cleaning robots roaming its aisles. Generative AI is growing exponentially and has passed the tipping point. I believe that you and your children’s economic security depends on being proactive. “You don’t have to know how to build a car. Just know how to drive it.”
BAD. AI is a colonialism accelerator and an inequity accelerator that cannot exist without TOTALLY unsustainable levels of consumption of energy and water, or without an infrastructure of surveillance to extract data to feed the required large language models. To give you an idea of how much energy AI uses, In 2020, it took about 27 kilowatt hours of energy to train an AI model, but by 2022, that rose to 1 million kilowatt hours, a mind-boggling 37,000-fold increase. And the usage is only increasing as the technology develops. It increases 750 times every two years. Technology is not something that must always be accepted.
AI, like any new technology, is agnostic. It can be used for good or evil. Consider how the web and mobile phones have impacted Hawaii. Travel agencies are no longer needed as air travel and reservations can be booked online. Think of how taxis have been impacted by ride sharing like Uber and Lyft--how bookings have been impacted by Airbnb. Think of how we order food online. How we shop using Amazon. These disruptive technologies are hard to stop and often benefit those first adopters that can incorporate them into new business models. AI is no different, except it may take decades to be fully developed, with profits coming only after large, upfront investments, and some failures.
@@HelloFromHawaii Generative AI and LLM have are now emerging now thanks to fast and massively parallel processing delivered by NVIDIA GPUs and cloud computing. But these pattern learning models have been in development for decades (training neural nets, etc.) Where AI will take off is when knowledge-based models start paying out.
If you don't engage with AI. You will fall behind. Everything in life is temporary. Change is constant. People were in shock with computers. I use AI everyday. If hawaii doesnt use AI the economy will crash. People will the world will pass hawii. Japanese will stop coming. The economy will change. we just dont know. housing? government? politics stop change.
Don't expect your wages to go up because you become more productive. We are more productive from the 80's and wages didn't go up. The wealthy just pocket the money. They only share what you earn them if the government makes them pay you a fair wage. Ever since rayguns neoliberal capitalism took over wages have gone down and productivity went up. Many people look back at the 50's and 60's as the golden Era because the middle-class had a large disposable income. What people don't seem to recall is we were the closet we have ever come to socialism. The taxes on the rich were 90% and the unions were strong and the wealthy still had lots of money.
Think you need organization to get better pay and benefits. People have been hoping for decades and all they tell us is that if they give better wages things will go up. Guess what things go up anyway. CEO's make 400 times more than the lowest wage earner. It would be nice if they played nice but they don't.
Generative AI or even the promise of Gen AI will and has already taken away jobs. The jobs that come from AI will be unskilled positions, in the form of "Prompt Engineers". People that make up sentences that generate the content that people want, and will pay much less than a skilled job such as an artist or a programmer. Gen AI will hit (and may already be hitting) a hard wall, where there is no more data left to train on in the entire world. Once that happens it will start training on data that has been created by AI itself. This pollutes the AI and starts to reinforce the things that it has already learned, making whatever it generates the same as any other AI until any creativity is gone.
Can A.i build our roads? Cause the people doing it now aren't doing a good job. I believe we've taken the computer thing far enough. We will soon lose more of our island feeling if we keep following the mainland ways. We already starting to be like just another big city but on a island with all the same big stores as the others on the mainland. No mom and pop stores all 7-11s. No need A.i i clean my own home, turn in the lights i still remember a time when we had to turn the station on the t.v by hand😅. You know someone is gona take A.i and push it as far as they can and it will not be good for us. Anybody remember Terminator 😮.
AI has a long way to go. I think it will end up making things better in some ways but it will not help at every level. Certainly it will not help Hawaii. AI doesn't recognize auntie or uncle so it won't help the corruption. Nothing more needed to say.
