The Future of Artificial Intelligence and What it Means for Human Happiness with Jakrey Myers | Ep. 80
Jakrey Myers
Jakrey is a strategic and analytical leader who thrives in challenging and changing environments with a customer-first-focused approach. He excels at identifying business needs and opportunities to create innovative, valuable and transformative products. Jakrey is also a product engineer and product manager specializing in AI and immersive technology.
Jakrey has a biomedical engineering background and has worked in different biotech companies over the last ten years. He started his career as an assistant engineer focused on cellular systems and metabolic pathways analysis.
He wanted to be a doctor, but he got a son at a young age which changed his plans a little bit, but he ended up graduating with a master's degree in biomedical engineering. He then joined Life Technologies company and later Thermal Fishers Scientific, which has provided systems for more than half of COVID-19 tests. They are also a major provider of vaccines and PTEs related to the treatment of COVID 19.
Segmented timestamps:
[02:02] - About Jakrey and what he does in the biotech space
[08:20] - Jakrey shares about the time when he was faced with a nearly impossible goal and how he embraced that challenge
[15:18] - About Web 3.0 technology and what Jakrey is excited about for the future
[22:17] Jakrey's favorite business model that he came across recently ‘selling physical products with an additional asset.”
[24:52] Using utility and consumer-based AI to train other people and increase productivity
[28:24] Humanistic AI, and its intent in enhancing inclusivity and inclusivity while avoiding detrimental consequences
[30:16] - Some of the things that we should be grateful for and alarmed about when using AI
[36:42] - Happiness index creative expression and ways to optimize AI objective function toward self-reflection and empathy
[39:09] - The future of micro-dosing in optimizing emotional states through external influences
[42:15] - Jakrey's practical decision-making framework that he has found very useful when approaching hard decisions
Notable Quotes:
“If you want to succeed, you have to do it differently.” ~ Jakrey Myers.
“AI is meant to help and benefit us and not to detriment us, but some of our business objectives drive the wrong outcome.” ~ Jakrey Myers.
"AI doesn’t necessarily know what is ‘true or false,’ and what is ‘good or bad,’ it’s defined by objective of the function." ~ Jakrey Myers.
“All big goals are built on actions, and actions are built from decisions.” Noah Scott
USEFUL LINKS:
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Website: http://jakrey.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakreymyers/
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