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AI ... What? When? No way!

I recently put up a little bit of scratch up for a Tesla Model 3, which, by the way, goes against every logical freedomizing frugality physical activity essence I have ... However, allow me to go on a bit of a rant. Go back about 3 years, my first ride in a Tesla, a friend of mine took me down a major vein in our city, took his hands off the wheel feet off the pedals, and wallah! We drove down Broadway autonomously! I was impressed, but my friend at the time didn't trust it, and rightfully so it wasn't to be trusted at the time. Fast forward to about two weeks ago, Tesla updates their driving software for the nth time and very positive reviews. I reach out to my same friend, who happened to have taken a little road trip about 100 miles up turning roads that day, his comment, he didn't touch the steering wheel or the pedals at all! I had just finished a book Homo Deus, and was already completely freaking out about AI and algorithmic realities that are becoming our lives when I received a text message that autonomous cars are here and ready! 

We must embrace the concept of nearly every job you can think of being done better and more efficiently by AI, and thus, start to focus on yourself, improving who you are, accepting what is coming, and becoming a better person because of it. Change has always been normal, it is now just exponential on how quickly said change is coming our way. Embrace this change. I look at the Model 3, not as an expense but potentially an asset, the great news is they can't / won't deliver until 2019 I'm guessing. Thus I have time for the autonomous vehicle to improve yet another year! My hope is by that point (Call me bat S#$t crazy) I just might be able to send my car off to run errands, be my "uber" driver as an example, pick up the kids? Or at a minimum drive me to my meetings allowing me to be productive during my entire commute to see clients.

My takeaway from my acceptance into Dataism is the ability to revolutionize yourself, as things become more and more automated, this will give you the time to spend on yourself, or not the choice is yours!

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