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I remember those days, too. My mom bought me a, I don't know if you remember the Commodore Vic. I got a Commodore Vic computer, and I learned how to do a little bit of programming back in the day, and that was my entree into computers. And, I think you're Gen X, Chad's Gen X, and I'm Gen X. So we were all exposed to computers at the same time, not similar to what our kids are experiencing nowadays, which is a whole different ballgame. Technology is moving fast and furious nowadays, so it's interesting to see how quickly we adapt to the changing technological landscape, especially in the design industry. Speaking of AI, when OpenAI and Chat GPT hit the market a couple of years ago, what were your initial thoughts about it and how it potentially could impact the AEC space? KPReddy 00:05:29.422 - 00:06:44.826 I have been building stuff in AI for about ten years, and I think my initial reaction was that it's my job to keep up with what the technology companies are doing. And so it wasn't like new news, but it was interesting nonetheless. And I think what it basically did, was say, how do we bring AI to the masses? How do we bring AI to people's desktops? Their phones, which before that, it was just very complicated related to the early days of the Internet. I was one of those Internet kids and so, the web browser made the Internet accessible to Joe Public. Without a web browser, if people had to go in the command line, they'd probably be lost. So, I would say, this interface allowed people to understand and experience AI and to understand, quite honestly, that AI has always been the background, whether it was with Google searches or whether it's Netflix. We never were actually participants. We were never a human in the loop, so to speak, it was always behind the scenes so I thought it was formidable to see how consumers were going to react to it. Randy 00:06:44.938 - 00:07:54.394 Yeah, I'm getting that now. I just updated my iPhone to the latest iOS, which allows you to utilize artificial intelligence.
And I think it's going to be fully available in the next month or so.
But just playing with it a little bit this weekend had me realizing the potential is limitless in terms of the capabilities of AI and how it's going to fundamentally change the way that we do KPReddy Email: kp@shadow.vc Website: Shadow Ventures
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