Today on the AI Daily Brief, something big is happening.

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blitzie and super intelligent. To get an ad-free version of the show, go to patreon.com slash A.I. Daily Brief. Or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. To learn about sponsoring the show, or anything else about the show, really go to Aidelebrief. or send us a note at sponsors at A.i.dailybrief. Now, as you guys know, I'm traveling, and I had actually pre-planned a long read-slash big-think

episode for this Sunday, but then this conversation, prompted by an article by Matt Schumer,

absolutely took over our corner of the internet, and frankly expanded quite a bit beyond it,

in a way that it felt important to add our part to the conversation and make sure that if

you hadn't yet, you get access to part of this as well. So we're going to read some excerpts from

something big is happening, a post that appeared on X about a week ago and has 80 million views.

Much more than the views, it has sparked an enormous number of response articles and conversations,

a couple of which we will also be excerpting. And the reason it's so important is that Matt has encapsulated and crystallized

this sentiment which you've been hearing and feeling through this show all year, which is that a shift

has happened with big implications. Matt starts, think back to February 2020. If you were paying close attention,

you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas. But most of us

weren't paying close attention. The stock market was doing great, your kids were in school, you were

going to restaurants and shaking hands and planning trips. If someone told you they were stockpiling

toilet paper, you would have thought they'd been spending too much time on a weird corner of the

internet. Then, over the course of about three weeks, the entire world changed. Your office closed, your kids came home, and life rearranged itself into something you wouldn't have believed if you described it to yourself a month earlier. I think we're in the this seems overblown phase of something much, much bigger than COVID. I've spent six years building an AI startup and investing in the space. I live in this world,

and I'm writing this for the people in my life who don't, my family, my friends, the people I care about who keep asking me, so what's the deal with AI? And getting an answer that doesn't do justice to what's actually happening. I keep giving them the polite version, the cocktail party version, because the honest version sounds

like I've lost my mind. And for a while, I told myself that was a good enough reason to keep

what's truly happening to myself. But the gap between what I've been saying and what is

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