20-12-2023
#132: Adventures in A.I. – Left, Right and Connected
Stephen had a chance meeting that lead to an adventure in A.I. development. The recreation of the human brain? Let us know your thoughts.
Dave Young:
Welcome to The Empire Builders Podcast, teaching business owners the not so secret techniques that took famous businesses from mom and pop to major brands. Stephen Semple is a marketing consultant, story collector, and storyteller. I'm Stephen's sidekick and business partner, Dave Young. Before we get into today's episode, a word from our sponsor, which is, well, it's us, but we're highlighting ads we've written and produced for our clients. So here's one of those.
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Dave Young:
Welcome back to The Empire Builders Podcast. Dave Young here with Stephen Semple sharing stories about business building and empires, going from small to massive sizes. And Stephen, you said you've got a weird one for me today. I don't know what to expect.
Stephen Semple:
I've got a weird story to share, and it's a little bit outside of the norm of what we talk about because it's not really about an empire, because it's about artificial intelligence, which is a topic that a lot of people are looking at and thinking about. And I was down in Austin, Texas a couple of weeks ago meeting with Roy Williams, our founding partner, writer of three New York Times bestselling books, and we got talking about artificial intelligence. And I shared with him this little artificial intelligence journey I went on, and he was like, "You have to tell that story."
And I was like, really? He goes, "Yep, you got to tell it on your podcast and you got to tell it exactly the way you told me." So I was like, okay, here we go. I got this opportunity. I was invited by Ellen K, who's a big time DJ in Los Angeles. Give you an idea how big she is, Ryan Seacrest got his start with her. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. So she gives me a call, invites me to this event that she's hosting where she's giving Marc Anthony his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
So she goes, "Do you want to attend this event?" I'm like, hell yeah. So I hop on the plane. I fly out to Los Angeles. I'm at this event, and it was really wild because they closed down the street. I'm behind the ropes. There's all these screaming fans. Marc Anthony's there. All sorts of other celebrities are there. And I'm like, you know what? I want to meet Marc Anthony. I figure out how they're leaving, so I positioned myself close to that door, so he's going to have to walk past me. And there's no one at that spot yet.
No one's figured this out yet. So it's like, awesome. I'm in the prime location. And it's working perfectly. He's leaving. He's walking past me. His back is to me. So how am I going to get this guy to turn around? Well, I've been working with a guy, really amazing coach who's been teaching me a lot about public speaking. But whenever you're working with these coaches, they always throw these other little tidbits out. And one of the things he was saying is about status.
He says, if you ever want to establish yourself as being on the same status as somebody and get their attention, here's what you do. You say the word hey, has to be hey, hey, your name, not theirs, your name, and one word. Now, if you can't do one word, two, maybe three, but no more than three. So Marc Anthony's back is to me, and I'm hearing the audience, "Hey, Marc Anthony, look this way. Hey, Marc Anthony, look this way." And I said, "Hey, it's Stephen Semple. Congratulations."
He fricking stops, turns around, shakes my hand, thanks me for my support and how much it means to him. And we literally talked for 30 seconds. I was so unready for it, I didn't have my camera out to do a selfie. Because at that point, I could have done a selfie because we're peers, right?
Dave Young:
Yeah, yeah. Okay.
Stephen Semple:
So I didn't get the picture. That's bad on me. But the cool thing is,