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Ricardo (4s): Hello, everyone. Welcome to the five Minutes PM Podcast. I kept for about a month, a note with a mindmap in my bag, carrying all the notes I did on Ted 2018. And I said, how do I share this a little bit too widely? So people can get to know what was my thinking on some specific topics. So the first thing is that I'm very happy and I was very fortunate of being able to be live there. It's a very different event from everything that you may expect. So it's like an arena with a, like a circle. So, you know, people stay up around and then the speaker's in the center in this circle and very short and sharp talks and they were divided in 11 sections.
Ricardo (54s): Each section covers, a difference, different topic like for example, body electric, like personally speaking talking about life experience, what matter, insanity, humanity. And on each of them arround five, six, seven, eight talks took place. And what was my biggest surprise in a super positive way is that it's such a big combination of absolutely different people from different backgrounds. So from a professor to a researcher, to an entrepreneur, to a writer, to an activist and all together, sharing their ideas.
Ricardo (1m 36s): So it's like opening your mind and throw in inside your mind, a lot of different sets of knowledge. So from Diane Wolk Roger's talking about the shootngs in the Parkland in Florida. Jaron Lanier in the first talk and he made a code that was something like critical four, all of us, he said for to people to talk about a third part needs to pay, to manipulate them, talking about the scandal, on Facebook with Cambridge Analytica. And he was so hard about privacy and this. So topics like privacy, like the interference on technology on the people's behavior like activism like political activism like democracy.
Ricardo (2m 24s): So so many different topics. So the next day Yuval Noah Harari started as an hologram from Tel Aviv, talking about fascism and the use of technology to manipulate people. And he also did it and a. Ted is a great place for amazing quotes and he said, you can never underestimate human stupidity. And this was a very strong talking about the fascism and then how people control the population. And this is very, very, very scary by the way. And then after him Cesar Hidalgo came talking about the use of AI to replace politicians', you know, so you will have your own AI that will represent you in a democratic parliament.
Ricardo (3m 9s): It was very, very, I'm saying crazy. You know, when you hear that you say God, how will be the society in this such different thing. Then Poppy Crum talking about how we broadcast our emotions, you know, and how the emotions can control or a different behaviors and different reactions. Then we have the economist, Kate Raworth talking about the dounout economy, talking that growth is not necessarily good. So then we came with Giada Gerboni idea about robots that do not have shape, like an octupus. Then Simone Giertz talking about the useless Robots, means, she does a work creating robots that do not serve or anything, but it's a very creative and very funny.
Ricardo (3m 55s): presentation, this was a live on Ted we recently, and then one of the most impressive ones. And I want to invite you to put on your search engine, fake Obama speech with AI, just that. Supasorn Suwajanakorn Maybe I said that wrong, but Supasorn, he built a technical knowledge using artificial intelligence that could simulate something that former president Obama said without saying it right? So he can taking some videos from someone and some voice recording from someone he can create a perfect mouth movement, same things that you never said before.
Ricardo (4m 42s): So with the apex of fake news, so then the CEO of space, X John Shotwell, sad about bringing people from New York to Shanghai in 39 minutes. So then we have the audacious projects burning man, talking about the burning man, then talking about capture, the cold of space to use an air conditioning, then a rock climber, you know, then fingerprint the new dimensions of fingerprint, about the, and the entrepreneurship. You know, it's so crazy, the amount of things. And you may ask me why on earth, I'm spending this time talking to you about that. It's because all the time I said this, you need to open your package of knowledge.
Ricardo (5m 29s): You cannot be stick to learn only One thing you should not attend conferences, congresses event and courses about something you already know. It's just a waste of time. It's just good for networking. But this part of that, there is not a point on that. And what was the biggest surprise for me? It's because for example, by not being able to use it is my mobile phone during the sections that causes me really a big discomfort. It was one of the things that happened to me because using the concept of positive psychology, you know, I was in the flow. I was fully immersed on hearing more than a hundred different stories.
Ricardo (6m 13s): And let me tell you Today one month later, I am much better and much more competent than I was one month ago because I have so many new dimensions of things that I never ever, ever thought about, about the applications of artificial intelligence, to leadership aspect, to entrepreneurship, to human rights, to how the bailout of prisoners can impact people's life. So in some of connections that are not part of my comfort zone and by not being in my comfort zone, make myself improve a lot.
Ricardo (6m 53s): And you may say at the end or Ricardo, but you were so fortunate about attending. I'm not, I'm not able to attend, I can afford, or I don't have time, whatever. So let me challenge you. Spend 15 minutes a day on YouTube on the web watching things that are completely unrelated to you. So if you are a psychologist, try to see some videos about coding. And if you work on coding, try to see some videos about astronomy or try to see some videos about political activists. If you are a political activist, to try to see some videos about medicine, and maybe you will say to me, but why I should do that?
Ricardo (7m 38s): Because the world is becoming much more holistic. And if you do not have this more broader view, you will be very limited on that option even to make informed decisions on your project. So think always about that, how we can improve this end degree thing is that most of the knowledge is a widely available and it's free. It's just required the desire and time. OK? If you have, desire you will make time for that. I hope you enjoy this podcast. See you next week with another five minutes PM podcasts.
