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Speaker 1: Hello Habit Mechanics
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It's Dr John Finn here.

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Hope you're having a great week
so far.

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Today I want to talk about the
Industrial Revolution and what

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we can learn from the Industrial
Revolution.

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As we get deeper into the AI
Revolution, there is, as you

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might expect, some, I suppose,
what I would call AI denial

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narratives saying that this
technology is not all that good

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and it won't make the changes
that people are predicting.

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Looking at the tech, looking at
the impact it has when people

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use it, well, I just cannot
agree with those narratives.

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They don't make any sense.

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When you look at this from a
first principle perspective,

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what we have for the first time
ever is a is competition to

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human brain power.

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We've never had that before.

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We have a technology that's
designed to work like our brains

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, to run on neural networks, and
therefore it can do things that

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up until months, sometimes
weeks ago, depending on what

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tech you're using only human
brains could do, and it's

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getting smarter and cleverer
every day.

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It doesn't have a limited um
power capacity like our brains,

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in the sense of our brains need
to shut down every sort of

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24-hour cycle, if you like.

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You need to get that good seven
, eight, nine, sometimes 10

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hours or more sleep to really
recharge the brain battery.

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The AI neural networks can be
running 24 7.

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So the tech is real and it is
going to make a massive impact.

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I've just no doubt about that.

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And last week I was spending
some time in London and I popped

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into the National Portrait
Gallery and I was looking

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actually at the section in the
Portrait Gallery which shows the

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scientists, the industrialists,
the industrialists, the

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inventors that essentially drove
the industrial revolution in

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England and Scotland and Great
Britain.

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And there's some striking
parallels between what happened

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in the industrial revolution and
what is happening now.

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The difference is it's
happening now at a speed that I

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don't think anyone was even
predicting six months ago, but

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the industrial revolution
probably happened over um a

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hundred year period.

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If you sort of look at the the
rise of the technology, I'm sure

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someone will disagree with that
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it looks, how it seems to be
also growing up in a.

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I grew up in a industrial
revolution town and I kind of

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I've kind of seen the history of
my own town over the period of

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time, how it changed, but not
with my own eyes, but learning

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about the history of the place.

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But then if we look at the AI
revolution.

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It's going to happen maybe over
a period of two, three, four,

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five years, and some of the
things they were predicting

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would happen in five years time
have already happened.

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So there were some predictions
about at the start of the month,

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of start of the year 2025, that
the things that might be

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happening in five years, they're
already happening.

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That's how quickly this is
going.

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But there's a couple of things
that I thought were really

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interesting.

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Um, and maybe I won't mention
them all in this pod, but there

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were some economic observations
I was reading about from Adam

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Smith about why the Industrial
Revolution would work from an

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efficiency perspective, and you
can certainly extrapolate those

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insights directly into what
we're seeing with agentic AI.

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There was, I think, something
that I found really interesting

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and I'm going to start to cross
over to the US now because I've

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also been consuming some things
around around the US industrial

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revolution is that there was a
if you're in the UK, you know

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Sheffield is the steel city and
there was a famous Sheffield

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inventor called Henry Bessemer,
and Henry Bessemer worked out

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how to cure steel if that's the
right phrase to basically make

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steel faster, and he was
employed then by Carnegie right

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in Pittsburgh to apologies if
I'm getting my geography wrong

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here.

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I think it was Pittsburgh to
make.

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Help him to make steel railway
lines faster, and basically

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Bessemer's technology that he
created could make a steel

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railway line that normally took
a team of men four days to make.

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His system could make it in 15
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15 minutes that's exactly what
we're seeing now, but we're

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seeing it for cognitive
performance and the difference

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is when you can start making
railway lines so quickly, you're

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going to create more jobs
because now railway technologies

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are scalable and they're more
affordable.

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So we're going to need more
people laying the railway lines.

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We're going to need more people
creating trains.

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There'll be more passengers on
the trains right, and commerce

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increases all this kind of stuff
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So the industrial revolution
was a job generator.

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The same is not true with AI.

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It will create some different
jobs, but those jobs will be

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replacing or those jobs will not
replace the number of jobs that

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AI replaces, if that makes
sense and we're already seeing

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this, and this morning I read
just an article on a technology

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website just timelining job
losses in the tech sector in the

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states, and I think there's
about 100 000 so far this year.

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Tech jobs have gone um in
relation to ai, but it was

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showing what businesses were
doing with those savings,

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because the difference with
these job losses are is that the

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businesses that are shedding
people are not under financial

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pressure.

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Businesses only normally lose
people when they're not

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performing financially well.

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The businesses that are
shedding workers have some of

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the strongest financial
performance on the planet, and

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what this article is showing is
is, yes, some people have been

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replaced because AI can automate
their jobs, fully automate

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their jobs, so all the tasks
they were previously paid to do,

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ai can now automate them.

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But they've also and that
creates a big saving when you

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replace human roles with AI and
what they're doing is they're

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reinvesting that saving into an
AI workforce, if you like to put

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it in very simple language,
which massively undersells what

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those people are doing.

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But there is this shift going
on and it's not always very

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clear to see, because not every
business is publicizing what

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they're doing.

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Um, but yeah, if you're
interested in the ai revolution,

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how it's going to unfold, why
it's happening, I think you know

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history is our greatest teacher
and the industrial revolution

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is so well documented.

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I'd encourage you to revisit
elements of that.

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There are some great figures
who played major parts in that

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revolution.

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So there's lots of interesting
things to get into.

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But again, we're not here to
kind of scare anybody.

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We just want to help people to
do better.

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And the first step to helping
people to do better is we need

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to realize that this is not fake
news.

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It's real.

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It's not the millennium bug.

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It's going to radically change
how we work and how we live.

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But if we learn how to optimize
our brain states, then we will

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become AI winners and we'll be
able to help others do the same.

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And that's why we always say
you're only ever one brain state

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away.

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Or, let me say that again,
that's why we always say you're

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only ever one brain state.

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Habit that's the word I was
missing habit away.