Good evening, good evening. Welcome, everybody. Half-pinch punch, half mid-month, 15th of October 20, 25. Oh, gosh, another base five day. And I hope you're doing well. I hope you're having a wonderful week. Thank you so much for joining us here Wednesday night live for philosophy. And I'm happy to take your calls, questions, issues, and challenges.

If we could get some new blood in, I see you there, Diego.

I happen to chat if we can get some new blood in.

I'd be thrilled about that too.

And, you know, I was talking to a friend of mine the other day.

And he was asking me my thoughts about AI.

Now, of course, I've done a couple of presentations on AI,

and I have some technical knowledge and understanding of it

and its potential and so on.

And I'm going to share a couple of thoughts with you about AI,

and of course I'm happy to get your thoughts as well. And of course, I'm happy to get your thoughts as well.

I'm checking here in the chat, get your thoughts as well.

So to me, it's not just AI.

It's AI plus robotics.

That is going to be the big thing.

So a friend of mine's daughter answers the phone at a restaurant.

And of course the question is, can AI answer the phone in a restaurant?

Yes, it can.

It can take the orders.

It can ask questions.

It can speak in any one of a hundred different languages seamlessly it can recognize accents

and transpose them to something a computer can understand and it can do all kinds of funky wild

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