Max Yang

AI automation @singlegrain | business @uofillinois

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

https://t.co/kZvvZ556aO

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

Lock innn

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

Imagine how good you'd be if you kept doing what you're doing for 20 years straight.

Right. Pretty darn good.

So why do you keep hopping around, chasing shiny distractions? FOCUS.

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

@ericosiu We promise we're cool too😎

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

@jestonlu lolll i have a feeling it's trying to take the weekends off too

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

has anyone else noticed Claude getting a little more aggressive with the "go to sleep" or "that's it for today" messages lately?

to be fair, i'm posting this at 12am, so maybe it's onto something..

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

an unexhausted list of some of my favorite educators on YouTube growing up:

CGP Grey
Kurzgesagt
TED-Ed
Company Man
PolyMatter
CrashCourse

[maja 🔭🍒 @majamediaco]

the people yearn for interesting explainers

there’s an endless need for high-quality content that explains concepts people hear about all the time, but don’t fully understand yet

people don’t just go on instagram and tiktok for brain rot, they want to learn too!

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

Things are moving so fast, especially with AI, that one of the first things you should have is a second brain.

Not because you can't learn on your own, but because no one can reliably remember, organize, and connect EVERYTHING they're learning anymore.

A second brain gives your knowledge somewhere to live so it can compound instead of disappear.

Highly recommend.

[Eugeniu Ghelbur @eugeniu_ghelbur]

https://t.co/Rj2edQsHcZ

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

good read.

[Riley Brown @rileybrown]

Why do people hate AI.

Here's a report by codex after analyzing 20,000 comments on anti-ai youtube videos

https://t.co/uCb2ZlvtwO

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

@suekhim super cool!

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

@Jayyanginspires 💯

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

@jestonlu BANG

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

@jestonlu Wow, its all coming to fruition 😄

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

@SofiaMarin5555 Following rn 🫡

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

@Jayyanginspires 🏖️

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

it's really interesting to see the split at my age, even just in college. i use AI every day, for work, to learn, for school. i nerd out over the newest drops and launches, i find it genuinely exciting. but i also totally get the other side.

being on X is such a bubble. every other day there's a new launch or a new model that blows the last one out of the water. we're constantly seeing what AI has allowed people to build and create. but for most people outside of this, the only exposure is AI generated slop or headlines about jobs disappearing. your sentiment goes where your attention flows, so it makes sense that the reaction looks so different depending on where you're standing.

people have been told for years their job is next while not seeing a solution. the backlash makes sense. and none of us actually know which way this goes. are we building the next internet or something none of us are ready for? i honestly don't know. but for me at least it's been really fun to find out.

being in college, watching friends graduate, i can see the standard path breaking in real time. there's no clear road anymore. and i think for people who are curious and paying attention right now, that's actually the opportunity.

figuring out which way is against the grain is still the hard part. but staying open-minded feels better than the alternative.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

JUST IN: The public hates AI.

And it's starting to get really ugly.

Just in the last 60 days:

University of Arizona students booed former Google CEO Eric Schmidt off the commencement stage when he tried to give them AI advice.

UCF and Middle Tennessee State got similar reactions to other AI-themed graduation speakers.

On the streets, Waymo robotaxis are getting attacked again in San Francisco.

Crowds routinely surround the vehicles, smash the windows, and set them on fire to protest displacing Uber and taxi jobs.

NYC parents and students packed a marathon school board meeting and demanded the city halt the rollout of AI in public schools.

Parents are showing up to these fights now, with their kids in tow.

Communities across the country are fighting new AI data center construction at zoning meetings.

Residents are blocking permit approvals over power consumption, water usage, noise, and the sheer footprint these buildings put on the land.

Some local governments have already passed bans on new construction.

And a small slice of the anger has already turned violent at the very top.

Last month, a 20-year-old threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's house.

He was arrested an hour later trying to smash his way into OpenAI's headquarters with a chair.

2 days after that, someone fired a gun near Altman's property.

And last week, the Atlantic ran a piece called "The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly."

Well, it's here. And it's not something we can ignore.

I'm still an AI optimist.

I genuinely believe it's going to bring abundance that most people can't picture yet.

But the reality is humans don't deal well with change, especially when it feels like a threat to their livelihood.

While many of us in AI land are amazed by the latest breakthroughs and love the productivity improvements in our lives...

It's important to realize we are EXTREMELY disconnected from the general public.

Most people's impressions of AI are still GPT 4.

And I'd estimate 97% genuinely haven't seen a single concrete improvement in their daily life from any of this.

They've been told for 2 years that their job is next while their grocery bill keeps going up.

That's not a position people accept with grace lol

Most of this comes down to speed IMO

This is the biggest, fastest technological shift in human history.

Adoption at this speed has never been easy for any technology, even the ones that ended up changing the world for the better.

People need time to rebuild their mental models of what work is, what creativity is, and what they're worth to an employer.

So now we're stuck in this situation where the lines keep diverging.

AI capability is going up.
Public acceptance is going down.

And the gap between them gets wider every day.

IMO the fix is bringing tangible AI value actually showing up in people's daily experience of life.

Stuff like:

> Cost-of-living relief
> New jobs created by AI for the people it displaces
> UBI once the displacement gets serious enough

Because when AI actually shows up in someone's life in a real way, the temperature shifts.

Think of the Uber driver who got automated out of his job when she discovers she can get her kid a free AI tutor that actually helps with math.

AI stops being the thing that took her job and starts being the thing helping her kid.

That's how you out-deliver the fear.

And that kind of shift,multiplied across millions of people and use cases, is what closes the gap.

I also think AI leaders also need to meet people with more empathy and stronger communication.

These are humans with real fears about their kids, their mortgages, their sense of who they are when they're not at work

And what happens if they suddenly have to compete against a model that costs $20 a month.

The good news is I think this gap will close over time.

Every major technological shift has gone through a phase like this.

The internet, smartphones, even electricity.

The pattern always repeats: once people start feeling the benefit in their own lives, the resistance to change fades.

And if you're pro-AI...

Our job is to keep shipping things and communicating the things that AI actually helps people with.

And to stay patient while the rest of the world catches up.

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

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[Max Yang @themaxyang]

@noahzender sheesh like finding buried treasure lol

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

@Jayyanginspires 👀👀

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@danieldwalton thank you!

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

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@jayd0nhe1 😆🫶🏻

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

empty gym all to myself. it doesn't get better than that 😌

[Max Yang @themaxyang]

@beingkanishka_ 🤜🤛