Bill opens his talk at an Exponential View member event by asking who in the audience is worried about AI, and says he is too. He is setting up the story behind Idealab.ai, his new AI tool for generating and testing business ideas.
…so much. It's really an honor to be here. I hope to share something that I'm quite excited about today. And hopefully it will change your thinking and maybe find some great ways to work together on making this even more powerful. So let me share my screen with you first. Tell me when this shows up.
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…last year is just unbelievable. And I think I feel like this metaphorical meteor has struck us all in this past year, maybe even in just the past few weeks or months. Let me first start with a question. You can raise your hand. Raise your hand if you're even a little bit scared about what AI means for your future, because I definitely feel that. I can see some of your hands going up. So me too. I'm 68 years old. And a few months ago, I had the scariest moment of my entire career. It was the moment that I realized that AI could do the one thing that I was best at, I think better than me. And that really, really shocked me. And I want to tell you about that moment because I've never felt anything like it. And also because by the end of it, it turned actually into the most hopeful thing I've ever worked on. But to see why it scared me, you have to understand something about me. So I have been an idea person my whole life. Since I was six years old, I've been painting ideas, building ideas, coming up with ideas all…