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Speaker 2: You're coming to invest vest, but you're not just coming.

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Speaker 2: So we've been talking with your team for a few

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Speaker 2: months and you have a program. We actually putting together

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Speaker 2: a whole track of artificial intelligence from one oh one

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Speaker 2: all the way to you know, advanced level, how to

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Speaker 2: incorporate it with in your business for entrepreneurs, and we do.

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Speaker 2: I think we're doing like four different panels and fireside

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Speaker 2: chats that you guys are involved in. So first and foremost,

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Speaker 2: thank you for that, But I wanted to kind of

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Speaker 2: give you the platform to explain what what your your

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Speaker 2: initiative is when it comes to AI and how it's

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Speaker 2: going to be incorporated inside of investments.

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, first of all, I just think it's

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Speaker 3: important for us to recognize that, you know, AI is

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Speaker 3: going to be a game changer, and a lot of us,

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Speaker 3: I think are coming from a place of fear and

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Speaker 3: non engagement. Uh, because we heard so much bad stuff

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Speaker 3: and obviously you know our community, we are very threat sensitive.

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Speaker 3: We've been We've been oppressed and repressed and depressed and

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Speaker 3: mistreated for so long. Every something new comes along, the

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Speaker 3: first thing is how is is going to hurt me?

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Speaker 3: And we've had that for a year now, but it's

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Speaker 3: time for us to look to see how can it

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Speaker 3: help me? Because doctor King wanted equal protection from bad stuff,

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Speaker 3: but we also wanted equal opportunity, equal access to good stuff.

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Speaker 4: This is going to be a multi trillion dollar impact.

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Speaker 3: And people keep telling me, well, you know, black people,

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Speaker 3: nine night persent of black people don't know anything about AI.

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Speaker 3: That's true, and nine night percent of white people don't either.

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Speaker 3: That's called equality, that's called an opportunity, that's called jump ball.

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Speaker 3: And so if this is going to be the most

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Speaker 3: creative disruptive tool ever. We're the most creative disruptive people ever,

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Speaker 3: you know, when it comes to technology. We took two

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Speaker 3: creative with it. Now you've got these incredibly creative tools,

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Speaker 3: we shouldn't be running awy from them.

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Speaker 4: We should be running toward them.

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Speaker 3: And so why not for profit organization a dream machine

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Speaker 3: innovation lab. We teamed up with will i Am and

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Speaker 3: we launched a campaign November called make Wakanda Real. In

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Speaker 3: other words, you know, why should our imagination only be

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Speaker 3: on the negative side? What about Wakanda as an imagination

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Speaker 3: jumping off point where you know, we have the best

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Speaker 3: and we're using it in a heroic way. We're using

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Speaker 3: And if you do that, this might this might be

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Speaker 3: better than reparations. I mean, this might be the way

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Speaker 4: As an easy rhetoric. So what we decided to do

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Speaker 3: The weekend of Juneteenth, we went to Atlanta. We had

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Speaker 3: the first ever dreams Machine AI Academy. We had about

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Speaker 4: And we were, you know, we had the backing of.

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Speaker 3: really surprised. This could be a jetpack for your business.

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Speaker 5: You could.

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Speaker 3: You can save a bunch of money because you're using

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Speaker 3: much on the marketing side. On the creative side, I mean,

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Speaker 3: it's it can be a jet pack. If we wait,

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Speaker 3: it's gonna be hand grenade. But if we move first,

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Speaker 3: it can be a jet pack for what we're doing.

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Speaker 3: And so that's what we're bringing to to invest us.

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Speaker 6: I'm looking at at the classes and on the call

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Speaker 6: we kind of spoke about it and that was like, and

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Speaker 6: I wish we could be there to see it. So

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Speaker 6: we had advanced AI, prompting AI imaging making, filmmaking, music tools,

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Speaker 6: you saw it come to life.

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Speaker 1: What's been the feedback from that initial class?

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean the feedback was unreal because for one thing,

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Speaker 3: I think people felt hopeful. You know, it's like the

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Speaker 3: political situation, the economic situation, even the weather. Everything seems depressing.

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Speaker 3: But here's this whole new set of opportunities that nobody

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Speaker 4: Nobody's seen tools that can do.

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Speaker 3: This, and so we've never had this in four hundred years.

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Speaker 3: We never had the opportunity to be on the ground

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Speaker 4: I mean, that type of stuff is usually out of

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Speaker 3: it was really exciting. And then you know there also

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Speaker 3: are already a lot of black folk who were in

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Speaker 3: AI who I didn't really know existed. It's not like

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Speaker 3: we had to go get a bunch of white folk

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Speaker 3: come teach us. Ashley Lawrence is a brother at Microsoft.

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Speaker 3: He came and was on the front the first panel.

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Speaker 3: This dude is like one of the top AI people

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Speaker 3: on planet Earth. His brother, There's there's another leader named

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Speaker 3: this stuff for I think twelve years. Actually, they're the

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Speaker 3: because AI at first was calling us monkeys and stuff,

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Speaker 3: and so this person had to step in and fix that.

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Speaker 4: So and you know, X.

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Speaker 3: Is dope, just young and amazing, and so we had

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Speaker 3: black experts who could break this stuff down at the

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Speaker 3: so glad to see us finally, you know, because they've

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Speaker 3: was a really beautiful experience and I can't wait to

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Speaker 3: bring it to to investments.

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Speaker 4: It's going to be amazing.

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Speaker 5: I know there's been a lot of talk about large

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Speaker 5: lingual language modeling and the costs of our astronomical like,

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Speaker 5: how do you think we can get into maybe niche

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Speaker 5: will allow us to maybe sell the IP to Microsoft

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Speaker 5: or a Google meta, et cetera, and break in that way.

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Speaker 3: Look, I mean the different levels to get in. The

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Speaker 3: level we're we're focused on is just just literally use

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Speaker 4: I mean just that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 3: So that's one level, just basic introduction, just literally whatever

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Speaker 4: So that's the first level.

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Speaker 3: And then look, man, the black community right now has

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Speaker 3: cultural power, we have spiritual power. But the Black church,

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Speaker 3: the Black business community, the black political class, we need

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Speaker 3: you need to set aside a certain amount of compute

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Speaker 3: The new data is how much compute do you have

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Speaker 7: do what's right. Leave now. Under President Trump, America's laws,

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Speaker 7: border and families will be protected.

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Speaker 4: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security,