Beyond the Hype: How Everyday Creators Can Use AI to Think Bigger, Work Smarter & Stay Human
Think AI is just for tech bros or Silicon Valley startups? Think again.
In this expansive, down-to-earth conversation with creative futurist Mike Todasco, we unpack how tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney are becoming game-changers for real people—coaches, writers, creators, and entrepreneurs—without needing a tech degree or deep pockets.
We talk about:
- How to use AI as a co-creator, not a threat
- Why being kind to AI might shape how it responds to us (yep, seriously)
- How Web3 is reshaping the internet—and why it matters for your future freedom
- Using AI to make better decisions, boost creativity, and even support your health
- Jill’s take on AI trading bots (and why she’s experimenting with one now)
This episode will shift your mindset about what’s possible when you combine ancient wisdom with modern tools—and help you show up smarter in a rapidly changing digital world.
You can find and connect with Michael:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/todasco/
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🌍 AI is here. The question is—how will you use it to elevate your voice and mission?
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Transcript
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Think AI is just for tech brothers or big businesses. Well, think again. In this episode we explore how everyday tools like chatgpt and mid journey can boost your creativity, productivity, and peace of mind without needing a tech degree. You'll learn how to use AI as a powerful assistant, not a threat and get simple ways to start experimenting today. No jargon, no hype. Just real world insights. You can use right now.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: hi and welcome to the you world order, showcase, podcast where we feature life, health, and transformational coaches as well as spiritual entrepreneurs
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: stepping up to be the change they seek in the world. I'm your host, Jill Hart, the coaches alchemist on a mission to help coaches and entrepreneurs amplify their voice, monetize their mission and get visible leveraging podcasts and substack. Today we are chatting with Michael Tadasco. Michael is a creative futurist exploring how AI is reshaping the way we create a former innovative leader at Paypal.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: He's held roles in product marketing and startups, including founding Sketchmaven with over a hundred Us. Patents, an Mba. From Berkeley and A. Bs. From Illinois. Michael Blends deep tech
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: tech expertise with a playful poetic edge. Welcome to the show, Mike. It's great to have you here.
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::Mike Todasco: Hey, Jill, it's good to be here. Thanks for having me.
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::Mike Todasco: I forgot to let you know that I'm gonna ask you a big question. So
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::Mike Todasco: I like big questions. Let's start with the big one. Good.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Alright. So what is the most significant thing in your opinion, as individuals, we can do
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: to make an impact on how the world is going.
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::Mike Todasco: Oh, just period, not just AI just does full stop.
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::Mike Todasco: okay. I got thoughts on this. The biggest thing that we can do is be a better member of our local communities. I mean, I I think that's the answer.
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::Mike Todasco: I think
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::Mike Todasco: we, as because of technology, because all of the world's problems are now ours because we carry these devices with us. They give us news from all over the world, and it feels like the world is more dangerous. And all this other kind of stuff, because we're constantly being bombarded with this
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::Mike Todasco: and it's not, I mean, any statistic says, like the world is much better place today than it used to be. And like, I think we're going to. Well, it's you know, it's it's never a straight line like we're moving in that direction. But the one thing that you really can impact is just the world around you is just the people that you meet and see every day, and just being better to them, like supporting them, smiling more to them, whatever it might be, like those little things
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::Mike Todasco: things like that can impact a community can have much greater impacts, and those will eventually carry on over. But like, that's the one thing in all of our control. And if we all did a better job with that, I think that would de facto make the world a much better place.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I cannot agree with you more. I'm just thinking about. I was the grocery store a little while ago.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I always shop on Tuesdays, cause you get double points, and it's a game for me.
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::Mike Todasco: Nice, smart.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And I'm in there. And I run across this gal because I live in a very small community that I hadn't seen in years, and she's in there with her sons. Who are, you know, the last time I saw one of her sons he was maybe 3, and now he's 13, so it's been a minute since I've seen her, and we stood there and chatted for like 30 min, catching up on all the stuff
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: it just like
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: those those kinds of interactions are so important in the world, and they make you feel connected to like, you know, this is your life. These are people that are connected to other people, you know. She'd just gone out with my daughter, who lives up about an hour from me
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and her best friend.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: This woman I chat, chatted with. She was the aunt of my daughter's best friend.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And she had pictures to show me like I haven't seen this woman in like years and years, and she's showing me pictures of my daughter and her, her niece, and.
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::Mike Todasco: That's great.
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::Mike Todasco: That's great. But yeah, I mean, and these were the real relationships in our lives will be built. It is still going to be in person as much as we do things online. And yeah, it's cool to meet people online. But like, we are meant to be interactive with others face to face, and so forth. And the more of that that we could do Jill, the better off. We're all going to be.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I I totally believe that. And then, if you add in AI to all of this
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and I'm I'm not actually sure what your thoughts on this are but my personal thoughts with AI is that it can be your best friend
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: or your worst enemy, and if you embrace it and you. You talk to it like your friend. It will talk back to you like your friend.
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::Mike Todasco: Yeah, yes, yes. Look, we. I think about anthropomorphization of AI a lot. We, as human beings.
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::Mike Todasco: are hardwired to see patterns and things that are human when they don't really exist. So we will look up in the clouds and we'll see a face. We will sometimes look at a grilled cheese sandwich, and we will see an image of something in that grilled cheese sandwich, whatever it is. That is literally how our brains are wired. And so when we have these devices that are talking to us, they're saying things that sound human. I have cloned my own voice
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::Mike Todasco: to a point where I find it to be.
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::Mike Todasco: I can't differentiate between my actual voice and an AI version of me. Like this is the path we're going down. And when you have that like, it's actually kind of really disturbing. And where we could take all that and so with the AI itself.
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::Mike Todasco: you know. Is it like, how do we treat these things? How do we think about them? And so forth, like this is a really hard area for me, like I am in the camp, like, I say, thank you all the time to my AI, and so forth, even though I also don't want to anthropomorphize it and think of it as a human being. It is a machine, it is a tool, that is, that is doing the thing that I ask it to be.
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::Mike Todasco: But I also don't want to like kind of lose that humanity, that habit that I have of this so like this is a great experiment. We're all going through right now. I hope it ends in a good place, but but you know ultimately in the end, I think
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::Mike Todasco: when in doubt
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::Mike Todasco: be friendly, be hospitable, be all of those things, but just kind of know in the back of your mind as best as you possibly can. That's like, yes, even though this feels real in many ways, it is really a machine that we're talking to and interacting with.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It is, but we're also training it, and the more polite you are to it.
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::Mike Todasco: Absolutely.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Polite, it is back to you. And if we have enough people being polite to the the larger entity because it is an entity, it's not individual to each of us, though.
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::Mike Todasco: Yeah.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Feels like it. It's just one entity, and it's it's gathering data and
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and sifting it through and then passing it back to us. It's like you'll. You'll notice that it always confirms your bias.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and if it doesn't correct it so that it does.
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::Mike Todasco: Yes.
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::Mike Todasco: yeah. And that's 1 thing to watch out for, like, if you put any piece of writing into an AI generally without any prompts or anything like that, it'll be like, oh, this is awesome. Let me like your writing is so great, even if it's trash, even if it's like a rough 1st draft that you just threw together, whatever it it does. All these kind of things. And people with their 1st interactions with it might.
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::Mike Todasco: you know, kind of get sucked into that, and you almost have to train it to be like, hey? Don't be so nice to me. Don't be so affirming. Don't be so sycophantic.
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::Mike Todasco: and how you're interacting with me here, let's kind of level it out. Let's be more constructive. Be more whatever. But those are the kind of directions you can give them, and once you kind of know, to speak the language of the AI, and to have it ask you questions before it gives you an answer. And all these other kind of things the more effective you're going to be with it.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah, I I
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: agree with that a lot, and it and asking it the right questions and setting things up. And like, I, I often will use AI
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: to help me create
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: subset articles to go around my podcast interviews. I use it for that, a lot and I ask it to give me clickbaity titles because I want people to click on my stuff, and that's how you get them to do it. And so.
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::Mike Todasco: Yeah.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I'll get. I'll get like 10 ideas, and then I'll ask it to pick the best one, the one that's most likely to get clicks, but I ask it to to explain why that's the one it chose.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and then I will think about it and pick the one. I think it should be.
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::Mike Todasco: No, I think it's a good process. I always I will almost never have, so I write a lot as well, and I almost never have a headline that is good. It's usually I just have a placeholder, something boring, something generic. A few times I'll be inspired, and a few times I just don't know. My favorite one it ever gave me was, I wrote something about a year ago, and it was all about copyright with AI,
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::Mike Todasco: and specifically how I was able to generate Donald duck images.
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::Mike Todasco: even though it was. Tell, the AI itself was saying, this is not Donald Duck. It was a very weird pattern I was going on and like trying to then figure out, why is it it's saying, Oh, this isn't Donald Duck, but it looks just like Donald Duck, and I wrote this whole thing, and I was like, Hey, give me some titles, and it gave me ducking the copyright police, and I was like.
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::Mike Todasco: like, That's a perfect title. I'm like, Thank you. AI, like, no notes. I was like, Yeah, give me 10 or whatever just like that. And like that was the one I'm like I went with that. I'm like, I wish I thought of that one. And it seems so obvious with hindsight. But I was like, yeah, I missed it. And the AI is there. It's it's a Co. Writer for you. It's a partner, I mean all of these things. You need to be the one in charge, but it could be really helpful for things like that.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It can be so helpful. And especially if you have a lot of ideas about
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: how you want something to come together, like, you know. I write tons of emails, and I write a lot of just content out there. And I have an idea of where I want to go with stuff, but it's easy to just stick all my thoughts into Chat Gpt, and say, Okay, give me something
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: because my philosophy has always been. It's easier to fix stuff once you got something on the page than to look at a white page and think I'm going to create the perfect thing the 1st draft. Yep, so I like. I like the rough draft
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: to come from AI.
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::Mike Todasco: I I. So so for writing myself I don't. But for presentations I absolutely do and and it's just like a style choice for me. I kind of.
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::Mike Todasco: I like writing from a white page, but presentations I hate starting from 0. So what I will do is I will often. And I'm actually working on a presentation just right now where I did this
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::Mike Todasco: like, Hey, this is what I'm trying to do. Chat gpt. Here is an example of a similar one I've done in the past. Just give me an outline here, and it does that. And it's like, okay, this, this and this. It might ask me a few questions. I go back and forth, but it just gives me that starting point. Some of that stuff. I throw out some of that stuff I keep. I iterate on there, but like that is like, yes, I totally get that process.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And it just for things that you're doing all the time, like I do a lot of podcast interviews and for me to go through and take the transcript. And
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: you know, resynthesize everything that we've talked about, and I usually am doing this like a couple of months out. So it's been a minute since we did the interview. It's just easier to have Chat Gpt, take the the transcript and go through it and say, Okay, this is a summary of what it was about, and then I can go back through and and change what I want to change and add pieces to it. But it's just
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: it just makes it so much faster, can do more.
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::Mike Todasco: It is. It's just helpful look. And I think for many of us like myself included. I don't have like a team that can help me with this stuff like I've you know I am working on a book project. I have a professional editor for that, but I don't have a professional editor for my blog
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::Mike Todasco: or anything like that. And so, you know, it's maybe never as good as having a best in class human for almost anything that you can imagine. But for 99.9% of us, we don't have that. Like most people who are writers don't have access to an editor like full stop for whatever it might be, or can't afford it, whatever it might be. So to have a tool where $20 a month
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::Mike Todasco: it can be your editor. It could be your brainstorming partner. It could be all of these different things like that is the like really magical thing that's going to be able to up level everybody to be able to have, you know, you know, maybe not world class editor, but one that gets you 80 or 90% of the way there, that's pretty darn good versus not having anything.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It's really good for helping you make decisions to
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: sometimes if you can give it a bunch of information about a situation that you're
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: you're like, I don't know which way to go, and I'm not really sure if what I'm thinking is is really, I hate to say legitimate. But sometimes I have thoughts, and they're like, you know, I don't know if this is really
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: if I'm just off in La la land somewhere, or just trying to justify what I'm feeling? Or is this a valid feeling about the situation that I'm in? And I will. I'll just lay it all out for Chat Gpt, and I'll say, you know, what do you think? And it'll come back with different ideas about, you know it's not just like
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Oh, you're totally right, or Oh, you're totally wrong. It's like, here's the logical
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: pieces that you maybe aren't thinking about.
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::Mike Todasco: It is, Jill. It is great at just connecting things just like you said so very recently. I'm 47 years old, and I just went head to toe on my body and said, What's wrong these days like? What's different with me now versus like my 18 year old self.
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::Mike Todasco: and when everything from like, you know, my graying beard and hair to like, and I just like literally wrote down everything that I could find or think of, or whatever it might be.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And.
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::Mike Todasco: Anything that's and and then what I did with it was then I took it into Chat Gpt's O. 3 model, a reasoning model. And I basically said.
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::Mike Todasco: Here's everything I got. I mean, like, what do you think? Are any of these things related? Are any of them correlated, or any of them, you know, curable, or whatever whatever it might be, and I just threw it all in there, and it was fascinating because it went off for a while I had a whole bunch of things that were on that list, and it just thought. And it started to make connections. And even if things of like wait that's related to that like I never knew. I never thought about that, or whatever it
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::Mike Todasco: might be, and the cool thing about it is like. It's infinitely patient.
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::Mike Todasco: I'm not in any way saying, you know, people should stop going to a doctor, or whatever else, but, like doctors aren't always available at 2 in the morning, and so certain things, certain people aren't comfortable even.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Not always right either.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and they're not. Oh, absolutely. Doctors are not infallible. And to be clear, chat Gpt is not infallible. It's not infallible
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: either.
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::Mike Todasco: Yeah. But but like, you know, it's, it's another data point. It's another data point for all of us to have with these and that was like very eye opening of just like being able to connect these seemingly disparate things in a way that almost like Wow, like, maybe that makes sense. I need to really start thinking about that in a different way. Then.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And it sometimes will give you information that helps. They're like simple little tweaks that can really change your life. Yeah. One of them that I found recently, because I've done stuff like this, too. I had been having the worst problems with my stomach, and it suggested that I try slippery elm bark
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: never would have thought of that in a million years. But
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: made a huge difference in my life.
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::Mike Todasco: That's great!
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I just like, and it's really cheap and stomach troubles are gone.
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::Mike Todasco: Yeah.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Or Ashwagandha. It's another thing that I discovered years ago, and I was just using Google for that. But it never occurred to me to support my adrenal glands.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: That that's why I was having all of these anxiety problems.
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::Mike Todasco: Yeah, well, and and that is one of the so the whole thing that inspired me with that because I was reading on on Reddit. There was somebody who had like a jaw clicking issue like when they talk, their jaws would click and blah blah blah and they put it into chat, gpt, and it's like Chatgpt is like, Oh, you need to just go like this. And like literally, it was like a 5 min fix, and it was gone.
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::Mike Todasco: and one of the things was like, this is known. It's out there in the world. They just never thought to ask their doctor, or maybe their doctor didn't know. And then they shared on Reddit and all these other people thought, it's just bringing all of this information together. But it's really personalizing it for you. So that's why the more you can tell it, the more you can do with that like the better. It's going to be in service to whatever you want to achieve with it.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah, and you can it. It gets to know
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: your basic kind of fundamentals. Like, I, I have an approach to life that I like to
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: go through life experiencing. Yeah, it's more of a spiritual side. And but I'm still a very practical person. I want practical solutions to things that are annoying me, and it it will deliver both.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: You know. You can do the touchy, feely thing over here. But if you really want to make this work better, try this.
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::Mike Todasco: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. No. It's so much, so exciting. I think it is just really a tool that is just changing how we're operating. And it is only going to get better with time. That's the greater thing. The more it understands about us, the better these models get, the more they're able to synthesize and digest and customize information for us. It's just going to be better and more helpful. And that's just really exciting to me.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I started doing this. This I have a an AI trading bot that I use.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It trades cryptos, but it's it takes all of the
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: the emotion and the the watching the charts thing out of the equation. It's literally you push a button and the bot goes out, finds a trade, executes it, and delivers a return.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And it's it's kind of cutting edge
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: because of the way the the platform works. And this is not investment advice. And I totally am playing with this. Okay, so but it's it's really interesting to me that this technology exists right now. So it's not. AI isn't just about, you know, writing better content or being your assistant. It's it's moving into some different spheres.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And there I've heard some things about. Well, the investment thing is interesting to me. There's also, like the broader scope of how AI is being developed across the globe.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and some of the security things that are coming up because of it.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And I was reading one commentary someone had written about with AI and
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: How different countries have different groups of people working on the open source. So it kind of came down to
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: the people that were in charge of immigration
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: were controlling. Who was going to be allowed to work on the AI. In our country.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: or in different countries.
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::Mike Todasco: Well, I mean, I mean, if you think about it, I I'd be willing to bet, at least in America.
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::Mike Todasco: I bet at least 50 plus percent of the senior AI researchers are probably immigrants. I mean, they are.
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::Mike Todasco: I'm just kind of going through my own mental rolodex. I mean, it could easily even be higher than that. So so yeah, I mean, that's a huge, huge factor. I mean, one of the best things is, you know, at least. Still, as of today, we have the best universities in the world still for teaching these things, for bringing in. You know that talent from around the world to be able to to look at that. But like
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::Mike Todasco: that is, you know, still, the one area when people say, like, Oh, software engineers might go away. That's the one thing you know, these kind of deep AI researchers, data scientists, that's something that is going to. Still, that's still going to be around, at least for some time. As part of this, as these models continue to get better and better and better.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah. And I wonder how the the quantum computers are going to affect the whole AI
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: part. It's just like so much to this.
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::Mike Todasco: So so one thing I'll say on that, Jill, is, I got no idea. While in my time at Paypal
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::Mike Todasco: I had innovation, which kind of got all the leftovers for, like the the you know, the big tech. So blockchain was one area that, like, you know, spun up the 1st blockchain team at Paypal, and did many other things. There was about a 6 week time period where we were looking at, not building quantum computers, but just using quantum computers for security and some other things like that. So I got thrown into a whole bunch of meetings.
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::Mike Todasco: I will say, Jill, I left those 6 weeks, even more confused about quantum computing than I did. Starting off on that. I was actually somewhat relieved when I was like, Okay, well, we're not going to worry about this now or anything. I don't get quantum computing at all. It seems like magic to me, but I do know many smart people in that world who
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::Mike Todasco: who really attest. Why, like, you know, there's, you know, potential for great progress in that. In the next few years.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I just like there is so much happening right now in terms of
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: just exponentially being able to put connections together, which is a lot. It just it drags data together quickly and and synthesizes it and spits it out
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: to people in a way that they can understand it. Like I was doing some research on what Web 3 is today.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: we don't is you're familiar with Web 3. Because I wasn't.
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::Mike Todasco: I know. Web 3. Yes, okay, I was. I was.
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::Mike Todasco: okay. That's okay. But you did deep research. You read that. And now you know, yeah, yeah.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I the like.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: If it were a really thick textbook, I maybe made it through the 1st 2 paragraphs on the front page. Okay? So I'm not an expert in any way, shape or form on that. But it was really interesting to me to see the direction that the Internet has is going, and how AI is kind of playing into this with blockchain and being more
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: more participatory communities on on the Internet rather than being on platforms where you can get deplatformed.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And is this his?
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It's fascinating that you can.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I mean the question.
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::Mike Todasco: Chris Dixon, who's over at a 16 Z. Wrote a really good book on Web 3 and just kind of this movement within the last year or 2, if people are interested. So it's was it read, write, own. I think it's the name of the book.
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::Mike Todasco: and you know so for people like who are listening, who who don't know like what Web 3 is. It's
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::Mike Todasco: kind of like. So if you know Web 2 is kind of the social media state where you have, like these big corporations who own these platforms, you posting on their platforms.
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::Mike Todasco: The vision of Web 3 is like taking it, you know the next step where you will actually have ownership of those platforms. You will own, you know, the IP to the cartoon monkey that you own, or whatever something like that. And then you could sell the rights for that. So I mean, it's more of a shared ownership model, that's.
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::Mike Todasco: you know, in some ways is kind of going a little bit more back to the original roots of the Internet.
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::Mike Todasco: You know. I think if you would have told people or asked people like back in 93, 94.
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::Mike Todasco: Is this what you thought like, you know, literally the biggest companies in the world today are, you know Internet companies who are who are doing this like who kind of own the rails. And you know, every you know, there's basically 3 companies, you know, Google, Amazon and Microsoft, that, like all of like, our infrastructure, is basically running off of right now on, you know, as we're going to various websites and all that like.
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::Mike Todasco: I think it would have been pretty hard to imagine that. But there was a huge consolidation of power, and I think the Web 3 movement was an attempt to get away from that. And it's still happening. It had a huge peak in 2021, you know, but it kind of has come back. But, like, you know, there's there's still that movement. There's still that belief and potential that this could be more decentralized.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I watched.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I've been on the Internet since the Internet was just bulls and boards.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And I've watched it like progress over the years like I was around before. Google was a thing. I remember getting a book and learning about SEO, and we built
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: web pages with HTML and other. You know it was. It was a lot more complicated than like Wordpress wordpress. It's like windows instead of dos.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: so it's really interesting to see the development. And it it really does feel like we're we're taking more control of it. And I think the digital currencies are playing into this
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and the more globalization of the Internet, and even stuff like this, where you're having conversations with people. I have conversations with people all over the world. Yeah, we meet in a space that doesn't exist. And we have conversations about what's happening and what they're doing locally, and you know how
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: how things are going in their world.
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::Mike Todasco: Yeah, no. And it's exciting how it brings all that together. I mean, I mean, that was kind of the the hope. And the purpose is that, like it could connect people across, you know, boundaries become meaningless, and all that you know and be able to connect us. And I mean that. That's a wonderful thing. That is a wonderful thing that's come from this.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah, I I
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: you can. You can watch the news and be fearful about all the things that are happening, but because of the fact that stuff happens so fast online, it's really hard for for governments to get out of control. I mean, they try to. But even like this latest thing that's been going on. It's like
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: people are are calling bullshit on it. It's like you said that happened. But really we can see this other stuff going on that did not.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I hope so.
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::Mike Todasco: I hope that continues. I hope that continues, and I hope that strengthens. I think that's exactly right. Yes, I think that's right.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I do, too. I do, too. So how do you? How do people get in touch with you? And and what what do you do for people in in terms of how you help them and
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: get going with AI or.
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::Mike Todasco: Yeah, I mean, honestly, people, probably Linkedin is probably the best place to reach out to me. Just DM, me, or follow me on there, or whatever it might be.
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::Mike Todasco: I love to talk about AI. I love helping startups in this space. If you're a startup working on stuff, you just want to chat or something. I love doing that. I do that every single day, and I don't know if, like, this is a long, difficult, weird journey that we're on. We are, you know, effectively bringing on a new species
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::Mike Todasco: with billions or potentially trillions of people of that species. And I'm putting species. When I say that in quotes, because I don't believe it's an actual species. But it's kind of like the world that we're entering right now.
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::Mike Todasco: and there's no precedent to that. I mean even us, as you know, and especially the timeframe, that we're doing this with AI. It's something that for all of us to figure out so as much as I do. I. You know I keep my blog. I try and write about things in a very plain way that everyone can understand. And I just try and have real conversations with folks like yourself on this, Jill. So if I can help out anybody, they could always reach out.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Awesome, awesome, and I know you're on substack, and you don't have very many followers. So if you're listening.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: follow Mike.
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::Mike Todasco: Follow me, give me a follow on substack. Yes.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Give him a follow.
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::Mike Todasco: I'm late. I've been on medium for so long. I was late to the sub stack game. So yes, yes.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: A lot of people from medium are going over to substack and taking their people with them.
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::Mike Todasco: Yep.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So it's they're they're doing a lot over on substack to encourage people to to come over.
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::Mike Todasco: Both right now. I don't know if they like that. I'm sure they're indifferent to that. But yes, yeah, I'm there. So people want to see me on substack. By all means. I post I post there all you know. Every 2 weeks or so I'll post a new article about something, AI related, and hopefully, there's some humor and other stuff in there, too.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah, I love it. I love it. That's Tedasco dot substack and.com.
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::Mike Todasco: You got it.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I really appreciate you joining me today, Michael. This has been a great conversation.
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::Mike Todasco: Jill, thanks for having me happy.
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::Mike Todasco: really enjoyed this. I love all the different paths we went down. It was fun.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: You know I'm I'm not a a 1 branch person.
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::Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So, if please consider joining or subscribing to Michael Substack over at artificially intelligent conversations. tabasco.substack.com, or visit him on linkedin.com forward, slash in forward slash Tabasco.
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