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11 facts from 1 episode, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2016
Mike Lewis says he worked as a portrait painter for almost 20 years until 2016 and owned a fine arts company.
“I was a portrait painter for almost 20 years. I mean, from when I graduated college till 2016, I I painted, uh, portraits and and I owned a fine arts company and and apprenticed a bunch of artists.”
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Mike Lewis says he entered the AI field after applying to be a commercial beta tester of OpenAI's DALL-E model.
“I had heard about the DALL-E model from OpenAI and applied to become one of the commercial art's beta testers.”
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Mike Lewis says he first ran language models locally on a gaming computer, built a business with medical records clients, and then had his company acquired by Tier One.
“I'm running things locally on my gaming computer, you know, um, and then, um, you know, medical records companies start calling, and, you know, and I build this book of business and and tier one acquires my company.”
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Mike Lewis says he built a superuser habits index at TiER1 Performance listing 24 habits displayed by AI superusers.
“these are the 24 habits we see superusers displaying.”
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Mike Lewis says that framing AI adoption as a threat slows adoption, based on the roughly 200 pages of research he reviewed.
“threat framing actually does slow down adoption.”
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Mike Lewis says he found five categories of L0 non-users, starting with the performative user, and also including the disinterested, the too busy, the job fearful and the quality-concerned.
“I found five major categories, so one is the performative user.”
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Mike Lewis says about 6 in 10 of the resistant people he talks to are in the quality-concern group, a figure he says he has seen near 60 percent in research.
“this is actually 6 out of 10 people that we talk to, and I've seen this number in research hover around 60 in more than one place.”
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Mike Lewis says an L3 should work alongside each L2 to make the L2's solutions scalable, durable and compliant with laws and governance policies.
“The L2 can make it uncanny, but the L3 can make it scalable, durable, make a thing that won't break, um, or doesn't break laws, or, you know, violate, you know, governance policies.”
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Mike Lewis says the 'AI excited' employees who get the most attention in companies are often not the right people to build AI solutions.
“They're running down the hall, screaming words like nano banana and methos class models.”
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Mike Lewis says a good L2 converts tacit knowledge into documented process because an aligned AI model effectively captures how the work is done.
“they're also converting tacit knowledge to documented process. Because once, once an AI model is aligned, uh, now you have documentation.”
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Mike Lewis says the average person has about seven careers over their working life.
“I think the average person has seven.”
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