You don’t need quantum physics to learn AI

Now a month into his artificial intelligence immersion, Nestor was thrilled to welcome Coppin State quantum physics student Praise Alayode to share her real intelligence about artificial intelligence and continue to lure him into the tech world of limitless possibilities and algorithms.

Nestor Aparicio discusses his Maryland Crab Cake Tour and partnership with Coppin State University. He interviews Praise Alayode, a senior dual major in Computer Science and Mathematics, about her experiences with AI. Praise shares her work with IBM Quantum, creating AI agents, and the benefits of AI in optimizing customer insights and organizational efficiency. She emphasizes AI’s potential in enhancing education and supporting diverse learners. Nestor expresses his fascination with AI, having recently created a clone for his business. Both highlight the importance of embracing AI for its transformative potential.

• [ ] @Nestor Aparicio – Nestor to invite Praise to join him for a crab cake lunch at Gertrude’s restaurant to continue their discussion on AI.
• [ ] Nestor to set up a meeting with Praise to learn more about how to use AI to optimize his work and daily life.
• [ ] Praise to teach Nestor how to build his own AI agent and language model.

Maryland Crab Cake Tour Announcement

• Nestor Aparicio announces the Maryland Crab Cake Tour, with six holiday dates starting next week.
• The tour includes stops at various locations like Fadel’s, Deep Cove, Honey’s, and Costa.
• Nestor mentions partnerships with Planet Fitness and Timonium, and plans to give away Raven scratch-offs and candy cane-scented tickets.
• He expresses excitement about the tour and his long-standing partnership with Coppin State University.

Introduction of Praise Alayode

• Nestor introduces Praise Alayode, a senior dual major in Computer Science and Mathematics at Coppin State University.
• Praise confirms her name pronunciation and shares her Nigerian American heritage.
• Nestor reminisces about his own educational journey and his interest in artificial intelligence.
• He recalls a past segment with Mike Rosenfeld about ChatGPT and how AI has impacted his life.

Praise’s AI Experience and Projects

• Praise explains her involvement in AI classes and her work with IBM Quantum, focusing on sentiment analysis and customer insights.
• She shares her experience at Afrotech, where she created her own AI agent and interacted with Microsoft’s chief.
• Praise discusses the benefits of AI in optimizing repetitive tasks and improving efficiency.
• Nestor expresses his curiosity and admiration for Praise’s knowledge and achievements in AI.

Impact of AI on Daily Life and Education

• Nestor reflects on how AI has changed his life, including creating a clone for his business.
• He shares his excitement about AI’s potential to automate tasks and improve efficiency.
• Praise emphasizes the importance of using AI as a tool and the need to demystify it.
• They discuss the ethical considerations and potential risks of AI, such as cybersecurity and privacy concerns.

Praise’s Journey to Coppin State

• Praise recounts her journey to Coppin State, including her acceptance and full-ride scholarship.
• She shares the challenges she faced, including her mother’s illness and the financial strain of college.
• Praise highlights the support she received from Coppin State, including opportunities for conferences and certifications.
• She expresses her gratitude for the university’s investment in her education and career.

AI’s Role in Future Education and Careers

• Praise discusses her interest in using AI to enhance learning and support students with different learning needs.
• She mentions her plans to pursue a graduate degree and explore AI’s potential in education.
• Nestor and Praise talk about the importance of staying curious and open to new technologies.
• They emphasize the need for continuous learning and adaptation to the evolving landscape of AI and technology.

Nestor’s Personal Experience with AI

• Nestor shares his personal experience with AI, including his participation in an AI boot camp.
• He discusses the challenges and rewards of learning AI and integrating it into his business.
• Nestor reflects on the impact of AI on various aspects of his life, from personal productivity to professional growth.
• He expresses his admiration for Praise’s expertise and the potential of AI to transform industries and careers.

Encouragement for AI Adoption

• Praise encourages listeners to explore AI and its potential benefits.
• She suggests starting with basic research and gradually integrating AI into daily tasks.
• Praise emphasizes the importance of dreaming big and using AI as a tool for innovation and problem-solving.
• Nestor and Praise discuss the potential for AI to create new opportunities and improve efficiency in various sectors.

Conclusion and Future Plans

• Nestor thanks Praise for the insightful conversation and expresses his excitement about the future of AI.
• Praise reiterates her commitment to using AI to make a positive impact and support her community.
• They discuss the importance of continuous learning and staying updated with the latest AI developments.
• Nestor concludes the segment by highlighting the benefits of AI and encouraging listeners to explore its potential.

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

Artificial intelligence, quantum physics, Coppin State University, AI boot camp, sentiment analysis, IBM Quantum, AI agent, AI in education, AI in business, AI ethics, AI tools, AI learning, AI applications, AI future, AI impact.

SPEAKERS

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Nestor Aparicio, Speaker 1, Praise Alayode

Nestor Aparicio  00:01

Welcome home. We are W, N, S, T, am 1570 Towson, Baltimore. We are Baltimore. Positive, positive. To get the Maryland crab cake tour out on the road. Excited about this. I got six holiday dates, beginning next week at the fadeleys at Lexington market. We’ll be downtown. Then on Thursday, we’ll be at deepest squalies in Canton, Friday, honeys in Hale Thorpe. And then we’re going to be at Costas for a little rock and roll, Christmas rock and roll, Hall of Fame, Regina shock. And then on Friday of Christmas week, we’re going to be moving the program back out to to our friends at Costa. So we’re going to be all over the place all month long, including Planet Fitness and Timonium on the 21st Monday, the 21st as Santa comes down, and I will have Raven scratch offs to give away, and also candy cane scented tickets, they’re going to make my whole place smell like Santa Claus and like I’m sitting on Santa’s lap at East Point mall when he gave me candy cane. So I’m looking forward to that. My partnership with Coppin State, and I’m wearing my copping gear here, is well known. We’ve aired their games for the better part of a decade and a half, and and I’m really looking forward to this segment. This particular semester, we’ve had a lot of students on, we’ve had a lot of faculty on. We’ve had Larry Stewart on. I’ve had ball coaches on. I’ve had all sorts of people on from college. I had volleyball coach last week, Congratulations for winning the me act coach, Coach Walsh came on last week. We talked about them going into the tournament, and Eric got my Eagles belt buckle here. I’ll roll out as well. But praise Ali yo day, I want to make sure I’m getting this right, because I lie a day. Did I get it right? I got it wrong?

Praise Alayode  01:34

You got it? You got it. You got it? Nestor, No, give me

Nestor Aparicio  01:37

the real pronunciation. What? How do your How did your mother say your name.

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Praise Alayode  01:41

Okay, so my name is praise Alayo de

Nestor Aparicio  01:44

olayo day. Alayo day, it’s like, it’s very musical. I love that. Your ancestry. I am a Venezuelan descent, so I’m particularly offended this week. What is your descent?

Praise Alayode  01:57

Okay, so I’m Nigerian American. So, yeah, I’m from Nigeria.

Nestor Aparicio  02:00

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Yes, perfect. All right, nice. I love that. So when this got set up, they said to me, we have no student this week, and I’ll talk to any student about anything. I’m a student of life. You know, I went to University of Baltimore. Hello, Kurt Schmoke and Mike was Corporate Communications was my degree. Many, many years ago, I had no idea. All these years later, a washed up sports guy from Dundalk would be talking on a Baltimore positive thing about artificial intelligence, and it is been something that I’ve I don’t say I’ve shoot it because my computer guy, Mike Rosenfeld, came on. Oh my god. Two years ago, right after chat GPT came out, and he showed me a poem, like we literally did this on YouTube, and go watch it, where we put, like, a little funny, write a raven’s poem, you know, and in 10 seconds it rode, Roses are red, violets are purple. There’s something rhyme with purple. So, you know, wrote something right? And this is cute and clever, and that son so smart, it’s so intelligent, you know. And the last year and a half, everywhere I go, all these young kids like you are getting ahead of me. And the last seven or eight months, I’ve really sat up straight, and I’m here to tell you that you have come into my life at the perfect moment, because on November the 13th, I created a clone, and I’ve lost my mind. So I’ve literally lost my mind. So praise. Open your microphone because you’re muted, and I got to have you, and you’re allowed to laugh at me because you’re laughing at me, and you’re muting yourself when you’re laughing at me, because I am the old guy here trying to be the one time teacher learning from the students. So they tell me you’re an AI track. What does that mean for a young person to know a lot about AI because it’s blowing my mind.

Praise Alayode  03:45

Praise, okay, okay, okay. So my name is praise Elia day. I’m currently a dual major in Computer Science and Mathematics, a senior here at coffin State University. For me, currently, I got the opportunity. I took some AI classes, and now I’m working with extern, but it beats by dre so we use AI to do, like, sentiment analysis. So we want to, like, you know, optimize the customer insights. So I use, I think AI is like a tool, and I think that is what it’s about. Like, I was able to go to like, afrotech, and I made my own AI agent. Sometimes you just want to forget about the mundane things and actually get into the nitty gritty. So I was able to talk to like the Microsoft, a chief at Microsoft. They’re like, yeah, sometimes we want to focus on the every we want to focus on the big picture. And it’s hard when we have to do repetitive action send out these particular emails, do these type of things, but now we can use AI to make us better, yes, and I think that is what AI is doing. It’s optimizing, it’s using our weaknesses and making us better as like and that’s how I’m using it, and I love it. So yeah,

Nestor Aparicio  04:57

I can have you over for crab cake, and we. Sit and Go for hours and and honestly, praise. Had I sat with you one month ago, I would have been way more ignorant about all of the positive aspects as well as the concerns, you know, many, many concerns about AI and proprietary and legal and safety and security and blowing the world up. I mean, I’ve read all of that too, but there is a point where I think about young people like you on a campus, and you say you’re a senior at this point, hey, Cobb, so, so for me, you were a senior in high school recently, four years I mean, you’re a girl, right? I mean, you were, you were a kid in high school during the covid.

Praise Alayode  05:41

I was a kid in high school during covid, yes,

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Nestor Aparicio  05:44

through your prom op. I mean, it screw your senior year. What happened?

Praise Alayode  05:48

So I missed my my sophomore in my junior year. So actually, in my school, actually did get prom, but it was like a kind of a quarantine prom, which is really nice.

Nestor Aparicio  05:59

That’s not a fun prom. I don’t want a quarantine prom.

Praise Alayode  06:02

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I got to wear a dress. I got to wear a dress. I think that was something that I really liked. Well, look

Nestor Aparicio  06:08

at your smiling about it. So it must have been a great experience for you. But at that point, and this is the thing that’s blowing my mind, I’m in a boot camp. I’m in an AI boot camp. I’m three and a half weeks in, and I am just up at 4am and it’s occupied my mind because I’ve created a clone. I’ve been a public figure for 35 years. Everything I say and I speak into the cosmos is captured, which makes me incredibly effective at getting my voice to where it wants to be. I’m an entrepreneur, I’m a business owner, I’m a marketing person, you know, I’m a public figure. I’m all of these things, and this clone part of me, it’s my obviously, my wife’s like, goes to be two of you, right? You know, I’m like, no, no, no, no, no. There’s going to be one of me that gets all the ish done in the middle of the night that I sit here and do that’s automated, including this piece that when I’m done with this piece, it makes an mp three and an MP four. It does it in Otter. I throw it into otter, it lives on our audio vault and cast those. It then goes this video where you look beautiful will show up on YouTube, and we’ll be smiling, and it’ll be on Facebook and and, but the automation would cut it up into 32nd pieces and put it on Instagram and Tiktok. I’m not there yet. I’m getting there. This is I’m getting, I’m learning. Three weeks ago this was all new to me, but I am. I literally created my clone on November 13, and I have blown three minds this morning before you came on, showing people my age about it. But the thing that’s made me crazy, and this is where I want to speak to you as a young lady who was in high school five minutes ago. From my perspective, seven year old. This didn’t exist when you were you couldn’t study AI when you left high school. That’s how new it is, right?

Praise Alayode  07:53

Yes, it is. It is quite new. Like, I couldn’t study AI, but, like, I’ve got an opportunity to get into it. I think to it.

Nestor Aparicio  08:02

What? What made you excited about wanting to learn it?

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Praise Alayode  08:07

So, um, I just love learning things that are new. Like, I’m currently, like I said, a dual major in Computer Science and Mathematics. I love tech as a whole. And I feel like Coppin did prepares because, like, when there was a shift that was happening, I was at the front end. Like, I work currently with IBM Quantum, so I’m quantum computing. So like, you, I was there for Quantum.

Nestor Aparicio  08:29

That’s why you’re listening. If you’re listening, you’re listening for the quantum thing. She just said she’s doing

Praise Alayode  08:33

so, like, so, yeah. So we do a lot of quantum, but now, like, when they were shifting, I’m like, Okay, now I do quantum, but now let me, let me learn about AI. Something I love about AI is that it can teach you about itself like you just like, Okay, how do I learn? And something that I even learned in class is even how to build your own like your own chat, like your own, your own learning, like language learning model. It’s not difficult, and I think that that is something that we have to demystify it, like, I love how you are going and taking the time to actually take courses, because some people are scared, like, how is this going to affect me? And I know there’s like, there’s a real risk to it, because, you know, there’s ethical issues our kids really learning. But I think that if we are able to use it as a tool, not as a like, not, yes, they have negatives too, but use it as a tool for our benefit. I think it can really help us out. Like, what you’re doing, you’re using it to make your life easier. Currently, that’s what I like doing. Like, on the side, sometimes I do a lot of, like, video editing, and it takes a lot of time, but using it to organize myself. Like, okay, this is what I want to do today. How can I organize myself so I best, and I’m optimizing it like right now my AI agent, it’s very easy to make guys like it’s really easy to make. I don’t know what you mean by like, clothes. I actually like to learn.

Nestor Aparicio  09:50

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I will buy you two crab cakes and Cocos and two insane leaves if you teach me, and I’ll take you to Costas for real crabs if you want. They don’t have Nigeria daily. Hey. Come on. We got to get, we got to get you some Maryland crabs when we do, come on,

Praise Alayode  10:03

I’m a vegetarian, Nestor,

Nestor Aparicio  10:06

you know what? You can come to gertrudes, and they have a vegan crab cake on the 19th I’m doing the show at gertrudes at the BMA, because I’m cultured. You know, that’s over by Hopkins. You know, they’ll let the cop and and the Morgan people and the beauty people that they let us go over by Hopkins, so come on by. That’d be great. It’s delicious. The vegan crab cake. It is, yes, he makes it with zucchini. Hope it was zucchini over. Yeah, yeah. Chef John shields, uh, praise. Please pronounce your last name so I get it right again, a lie your day. A lie your day. I keep wanting to say a lie your day. I’m getting it right. She’s a common state student. She’s way smarter than me. Quantum physics. This is why I’m talking AI with you, because it was like, I’m going to interview praise about quantum physics. Tell me about quantum physics. What?

Praise Alayode  10:56

What could I for? Pivoting, okay, I love to see it. What do I What could I

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Nestor Aparicio  11:01

learn about quantum physics from you in two minutes? I could ask AI. I know that.

Praise Alayode  11:05

I know you can. I know you can like for specifically what I did, like my sophomore year, I got to actually speak at Harvard University with like, what we were learning. So that’s even like better than Hopkins. Maybe they know I wouldn’t say that, but I look like I have applied to Harvard. So please find me. Find me. Guys, find me.

Nestor Aparicio  11:24

Well now you’ll be getting chowder up there in Boston. You won’t have any crab cakes.

Praise Alayode  11:28

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Yeah, it’s true, what food is food, but if I’m to tell you about what I was learning, specifically in my first year, I learned about like, quantum algorithms. So we learned about different search algorithms, how to optimize it to make classical systems easier. So like, what are when you say classical system? What is a classical system? It’s like my phone zeros and ones, but then with quantum it can be zero and one at the same time. So something that we did at coping, because I got introduced through IBM, it’s like a big tech company through one of my professors, and I applied, got a certificate in it, and I was working with them, and then I actually got promoted there. So it’s been like, Coppin is really paved ways. I will say hashtag, coping cares, and even something I love about our President, that he took the time to write me recommendation letter once. And I was like, presidents don’t do that. And they’ll, they’ll know my name too. But back to quantum, you know, I had to hashtag my coffin. But, um, back to IBM. What we were doing is that, like, I was like, okay, we can use this methodology now to to, like, enhance IoT devices. Now, what is IoT devices? Internet of Things like, um, like, you know, those Google devices. We can use the things that we’re learning about quantum algorithms since right now, we can’t make IoT devices exactly from quantum algorithms. We can use what we’re learning about quantum algorithms in theory to optimize these devices or even use it for cryptography purposes. Something that I even I’m doing currently, and I’m just so excited about it is that we’re doing quantum computing and game theory. There’s a lot of things like, you know, tic tac toe, but how am I going to, like, we optimize by using things from like quantum. Like, now we’re going to use Oracle. So now, when it’s xx, because they touch each other, due to superposition, they change. We’re making games more interesting using quantum. And I was like, wow. Like, I’m taking this abstract topic, breaking it down, and now I get to tell people that are like, like me. I’m like, Yes, you can do this. And it is fun to do like, I think it’s a new level of learning. And I’m excited to just, I’m here. I’m at the forefront, like, quantum computing. Ai like, I’m excited.

Nestor Aparicio  13:39

I’m excited. No offense to any of my other cop and guests, but you might be my favorite cop and guest ever. And I don’t even know what you’re saying, but I like it. You said algorithm. An algorithm is a word that is very common now, because it affects our algorithm on our Facebook page or LinkedIn, or wherever we are, Instagram, whatever you’re on, there’s an algorithm that feeds you what you want, which may or may not be good for for any of us, or all of us at this point, which is why I challenge AI, to really challenge me and not be so nice to me, you know? I mean, be be honest, be critical, right? So, but, but I would say with the the algorithms that have affected elections in this country. I don’t think I need to tell you that the mathematical part of that, and you having greater understanding of that than me explain things like that in gaming algorithms or in how those things work to greatly affect our lives, right? Like the algorithm affects if you’re in this thing, in this phone, there is something that you’re completely unaware of, let alone it’s listening to you, or my wife’s watch listens to her. And here’s that, you know, sometimes I just think about things, and they show up, and you and I say in the word quantum physics, out in out loud. Right now, I’ll start getting served as. Because they’ll think I’m the smart one in the conversation to do quantum physics, but algorithms explain that to a guy like me that really doesn’t know much about it.

Praise Alayode  15:08

Okay, so I will say, particularly with Game Theory, I’m just getting into it, so like, I am learning a lot about it, but something I’m am taking the advanced data structures and algorithms. There are a whole bunch of different algorithms I know, with Beats by Dre, because that’s one of the externships I’m doing right now. That like, we’re using like, we’re noticing that the different like, different patterns of people like, like, for example, you know, there’s consumers and then there is customers. We want to make sure that people are buying the product, as you know, like, Beats by Dre is a subsidiary of Apple, but it’s his own company. Something that people actually don’t know is that beats by day, you know, Apple music. It was first beats music, and then when Apple took over, they took their algorithm that like, so I’m going, I’m tying it back. They took their algorithm that was one team I like. It’s, I’m not going against it. They took their algorithm and optimize it. So now we have Apple Music, which you can hear, music that, if I listen to this enough, now I’d be like this music sounds like this music.

Nestor Aparicio  16:12

There’s no question. Yeah. I mean, that’s how people find music. Is like this is what I like. Give me something that’s like what I like, or similar to what I like,

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Praise Alayode  16:21

but that’s the thing they didn’t know that before. So, like, I think that, like, a lot with mathematics, like, we know if we do something a whole bunch of times, it’s like, more likely it’s going to it’s more likely for us to do it again. Like, for example, like, I don’t want it, like, I’m trying to, I’m trying to be careful with the words that I’m saying. But like,

Nestor Aparicio  16:40

the way I was taught about it, let me just say that the way I’ve been taught lately is that the way this all works. It’s like search and like Google, that it’s predictive of the next word that you’re most likely to use. And my teacher taught me is, if you were to say the word old, the next word could be old man, old far, an old hat, old anything. If you said Old MacDonald, the next word probably is going to be had because Old MacDonald had a farm, so it would predict that it’s always trying to predict the next thing you’re going to say in the same way that you see a Google search. It is my understanding that that is sort of the framework of being predictive, that that is how these things are effective, by being predictive of what we’ve already done and knowing what we’ve done and what we might do again.

Praise Alayode  17:36

So I see that you are leaning back to learning algorithms, like the language learning algorithms. Yes, that’s how it works. But like, how does it know that? Because it’s been fed so much data, how do I know that this word comes after another word? As you teach a little kid, like you teach them, like sentences, the verbs, the nouns, how things flow together, and if you teach it, if this sees a whole bunch of time in books that this word goes next to this word, and there’s a likelihood of this like it studies you. It’s like, if you’re in a relationship with somebody, you’re going to know, you’re going to you’re able to finish their sentence. So if I’m to break it down in a like, a minuscule point, I think learning language models like it takes it absorbs all this data, then when you ask a question, it’s like, okay, from what I’ve learned, this is what I’m producing. Because there’s something still called hallucinations, because sometimes you can put a word in, but it’s not actually what you’re thinking. But the more it gets to know you, because we all have individual biases, it’s tailors like it. Algorithm adjusts you. It doesn’t change the algorithm, but it just to what you want as well. Yeah.

Nestor Aparicio  18:40

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Praise ILO day, if I pronounce it right, praise a

Praise Alayode  18:43

lie a day.

Nestor Aparicio  18:44

See, I knew I was gonna get it wrong. I got it I’m as good a praise. Praise is that okay? Can I do that? All right, cop, copping is here. Copping in the house as always, we always, man, this is, I don’t know what direction I want to go in, but I’m learning things. And one of the things, and I’m I’m not doing a lot, I’m talking about the ravens and baseball and stuff. So when I get into this AI thing, this is where I’m really having fun. One of the things that was shown to me as part of a sales tool to get me into the program a fun thing, because, I mean, I’m using it for business. I’m an entrepreneur. All just, I’ve used it so many ways in three weeks that I’m explaining it to everybody in my life. Is a Willy Wonka thing like I have. I’ve never seen anything more powerful than this. But the one of the sales tools was this. The guy who was selling me on and on the internet in a chat, you know, in a Zoom Room, told the story about he said, let me show you a picture. This is a picture of my refrigerator. I’m like, why would you want to show a picture refrigerator? And he said, Well, I take picture refrigerator, and I have two children, and they’re always hungry, and they’re always asking, Dad, what can I eat? What can I eat? What can I eat? And he showed that you can. Take a picture of your refrigerator, put it into your clone. It pops out, and it will make every conceivable thing that your kid would eat and whatever come it knows what’s in the refrigerator from a picture. It registers all of that, and it will make a menu, like a chopped episode, these silly little thing that sounds really silly, unless you’re a parent, you got kids screaming at you’re or you’re only but like i There are ways that this can be used that I would never have thought of and the ways it was shown to me over the last year and a half. First time it was write a silly poem, write a Ravens are red, right? Violets are blue. Look. Isn’t this cute? Is it clever? And then it was more along the lines of challenging the universe about a business proposition. But, you know, I had a business question. My friends like, why don’t you just ask AI? And I’m like, AI hallucinates, you know, I might get a wrong answer. I might, I might ask the gas station attended, which directions to, you know, to Bethesda and get wrong directions right? That’s the old way of doing things. The new way of doing things is, you get Google Maps and you get there. Yeah, you know, we think young people like you, you don’t know what it’s like to be old when we had maps and couldn’t find our way. And I mean, just driving through a toll booth now you don’t have to stop anymore. Just all of these things that have become much more effective. And I see people when I talk to them, praise people my age, young people, middle aged people. I talk AI and they, they freak out on I’m too old. I don’t need it. Don’t want it. Can’t use it. What’s it good for? Hallucinations, breaking the law, ethical art, stealing, plagiarism, and that’s, that’s literally my world praise. In the last three weeks, since I’ve become an apostle for this, which is why I’m so delighted to have you on. I see the pushback from really smart people, not as smart as you quantum physics. Hey, I mean, you’re, you’re the only quantum math physics person I have on the show this year, but I have read normal people on here do talk sports and do silly things, but, but they’re all pushing back on it, you know what I mean, and I and I want to be a conduit as like the light went on for me a month ago that when I talk to younger people like you that will never know a world without it. You know, like when my kids sent me a text 20 years ago, and I’m like, I will never text with you. You will call me like a proper child, and we will talk like old people do. And now, like, phone rings, I don’t answer it, but I’ve seen myself change. But when I get the energy of young people where this is all you’re ever going to know. Is a world where you take a picture refrigerator and you know everything it’s in, it can make a in it can make it that that is mind blowing, like the when I went to Phoenix about 10 weeks ago and got in a way Mo, I got in a car without a driver, and that sort of turned me on to AI. That probably was my gateway drug to say, All right, what else is possible here? What am I missing out on and I feel like for young people like you, that really needs to be the message for anybody in my community is we’re not all going to get quantum physics praise, but I think we can all catch on to AI and you mentioned language models, that where it is this is going to become a ubiquitous part of our language way faster than anybody my age is willing to admit,

Praise Alayode  23:23

yeah, and I agree with you. Like, and it just takes a desensitize me, like, even the opportunity for me to even learn about content. Like, it just took someone saying, like, I’ve I know that you’re capable of me actually stepping up to learn it. That’s why, like, I really do admire the fact that you are taking the time for these last few weeks to to study like I I’m a Christian, so there’s a verse that says, study to show yourself approved, and that’s what you did. You studied and you were concise, and now you’re learning it. And I just want to encourage anyone out there, you’re like, This is a scary topic. This is big. It might take women try it, try it, and if it doesn’t work for you, that’s fine, but people are using it now to build businesses like more than ever. You can use AI to make yourself better,

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Nestor Aparicio  24:08

and you’re not way ahead of me, even though, you know we’re a couple generations apart and you’re in college and I’m out, I’ve always felt like as I’ve gotten older, I’ve tried to learn things and try to stay ahead of the curve. I think it’s one of my benefits, of my curiosity, to be able to talk to anybody about anything. I love that part of it, but this thing, to me, is otherworldly praise like I mean, just in the last three weeks, I’m lighting up all day, every day. I even status last night. If you think I’m losing my mind, it’s just because I’ve fallen into this addictive hole of a place where it’s beyond the capacity for my mind to conceive what this thing has been spitting out at me the last three weeks, really,

Praise Alayode  24:52

yeah, and it’s like I was last year I was in Maryland Higher Education Commissioner, so I had the opportunity to say that you’re able to do. Like different technologies, like, I know there’s something about Maryland’s that we are like now. There are different majors in data science. There are different certificates you can get. I know Google and Google are having their own courses. Are they

Nestor Aparicio  25:14

offering to me all over my social media? They know I’m into this. They’re all trying to sell me 20 bucks.

Praise Alayode  25:18

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Believe I encourage everyone just to learn. Like, I think that we we only know as much as we know. So like, take AI, or you take chat GBT as a library, a library that you can ask questions to so I can become better myself, like and for me, I this is just the beginning. For me, one day I will be the CTO, the Chief Technology Officer, praiseworthy technologies coming soon. Trademarks, and I want everyone to know that like, this is, this is real life is going to move on. There’s going to be a time. There’s not going to be time without AI. So let’s, let’s understand there are different things that we have to measure. Because I got to work with the Department of Energy over the summer, and working with them, I found out that, like, cyber security is a big risk now too, because now AI like I was on chat GBT, and it’s like, you can’t look up people’s faces anymore. Like before, you can put faces in and it’ll show you who that person is, so that you know that breeds avenue for stalkers. But now we have an opportunity to be like, this is the business. How do I build that? Like, I see what they’re doing with this technology. Explain te Tesla’s technology to me. Like, right now I was in a math class, and then I gave AI my like, I was like, Can you check my homework for me? And it got it all wrong. And I remember, I realized that right now, like, it’s not 100% there yet, so we still need to study, because AI doesn’t answer all of our questions. Because what AI does? It just it’s accompanying everything that they that like millions and millions and millions of data, right? But they make mistakes too. So that means us as humans still matter, because there are so many jobs you cannot take away, like teachers and doctors, don’t be afraid of it, but to move forward in it, something I’m actually so excited about is, like something I want to research about going into grad school, is that I want to see how AI can help with learning, like something I worked with the Maryland high education commissioner, and I learned that, like learning, especially at A young age, that, like anything is possible and you can learn anything is something that can just build better leaders. And you know, people with autism, like they learn differently, and that is okay, but something that the AI models are showing this is that they have different patterns of learning, that they can learn, and we can use that to make education tailored to them. So now teachers are like, I’m scared, but now you can use AI as a tool to better serve your community or and I think that that is something that I I have to love. AI like I I just have to, because this is the time I’m living in, but it is the change that I want to be a part of.

Nestor Aparicio  28:03

I’m so excited to have you on this has been a great conversation. I love my Coppin relationship with my eagles. And last week it was volleyball. This week it’s quantum physics. Man, they’re doing it all over there in West Baltimore, Cobb. And how did you get the Coppin and where are you from high school? Why are you are you a Marylander?

Praise Alayode  28:19

I am. I’m a proud Marylander. I’ve lived here, like, my whole life, and, um, yeah, so I went to Paint Branch High School. It’s in you

Nestor Aparicio  28:30

ain’t from Baltimore, your DMV. I got you all right, I’m just checking. All right, got it. I’m thumbed off. I know the difference. It’s fine.

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Praise Alayode  28:37

I mean, I’ve been here for four years, so I claim Baltimore, you

Nestor Aparicio  28:41

chose Baltimore. So, like, I’m giving you all the love in the world. That’s why. So what happened with cop and like, how did, how did cop and come into your life?

Praise Alayode  28:50

So I will say that. Like, so again, I’m very Christian, so I believe, like, God placed me here. So like, something you do not know about me is that my mom passed away my senior year, and my mom was sick to a disease called ALS. She was sick for seven years, so so, like, it was during covid too. So it’s very it was very hard. It was very difficult moment. That’s why, like, I’m really strong in my faith. But during that time, my parents, I didn’t know how I was going to get to college. I had a 4.0 but if you don’t got the money, you don’t got the money. And I got accepted to, like, the big name schools, you know, I won’t name them because I chose Coppin, but like, they didn’t, they would say, Oh, our tuition is 50,000 and I’m gonna give you 10,000 I love you so much. I’m gonna give you 10,000

Nestor Aparicio  29:36

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you’re trying to figure where’s the other 40 coming from, right? Yeah. I mean, right.

Praise Alayode  29:39

And in that moment, I wasn’t really ready to take on loans or this new responsibility. So I remember I went to Career Fair and someone saw, they saw my, um, they saw my grades, and they saw my, my beautiful, you know, you have to write, you have to pitch yourself in like, a letter about, like, why I want

Nestor Aparicio  29:55

to, hey, I don’t write that for you. Put your clone in. And.

Praise Alayode  30:00

And when I and then they’re like, Okay, we’ll get back to you. And then I got a letter that said, praise you’ve been accepted into carpet State University on a full ride scholarship. So I took it, and that is why I’m here. And at first I was like, man, like, this is I wanted to be in the city. I’m not getting this. But because it’s so small, everyone knows my name and everyone is fighting for me, literally, like I got to go to this, this big conference. Have you heard of afrotech?

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Nestor Aparicio  30:26

I have heard of it. Please tell our audience about it. So afrotech

Praise Alayode  30:30

is basically when, like the it’s everyone’s invited, but it’s mostly for the people of the black diaspora, like their Microsoft is there, Apple is there, Riot Games is there, Google is there, and they want students like us, or even like, I met somebody ranging from high school students all the way to 52 pivoting, and they’re going there to be like, This is who I am. And I want to learn about tech. There’s a section in which you’re doing a whole bunch of certificates. And like, I went there, and I got to talk to like, big companies called Vanguard and cop, and paid for me to go, actually, the ticket cost a lot of money, and they paid over it like 1000s, for me to go to this conference, to be able to not just talk about it, to get an experience. And I did get an interview. Something is, you know, it’s cooking, it’s cooking. It’s cooking like, um,

Nestor Aparicio  31:17

not before you set up my first agent. No, you’re

Praise Alayode  31:21

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right, you’re right, you’re right. I have to set up that agent. But like, yeah. Like, that’s why I chose Coppin, because they look out like, and I remember I was there, was like, how am I going to get the funding for this? And I wrote an email, and I went to the press month, and I waited, I was like, Can I please talk to him? Like, please. You know, I have, I have a mission. I’m about to graduate, I need a job, and you’re like, yes, and it took some processes, and I got the opportunity by the grace to go. So yeah, I chose. I would say I chose Coppin, but Coppin chose me, and they’ve invested in me, and they’ve cared for me, and now I’m here, and I won’t say I haven’t had hiccups. You know, we have our own hiccups, but Coffman was a place for me, and it really poured into me. But it is what you make it. But I’ve chosen to succeed, and it shows by the grace of God,

Nestor Aparicio  32:08

all right, man, not just a volleyball team winning over at Coppin State. Praise. I It’s been a pleasure having you on the AI. Things have been the best conversation I’ve had in AI, because I couldn’t really talk about it a month ago, and I can only talk about it from my own sort of experience, in seeing it, in interacting with it. I set a clone up. I’m trying to make my clone stronger. I’m trying to, you know, really make it functional. It’s asking me for all sorts of things that I need to get cleaned up, like email addresses and pipelines to my WordPress and, you know, having one central place, but I’m getting there during the holidays, and I it’s hard for me at this age, but I’m improving. And you know, that’s all you can ask for when you get to be as old as me, right?

Speaker 1  32:54

Yes, but you’re not old. You still moving, still moving.

Nestor Aparicio  32:58

In my yoga class and Planet Fitness, I’m gonna be doing a short plan of fitness on the 21st and Timonium, they’ve opened a new location. They’ve been our sponsor for a long time, as well as our friends at COP and state. So um, parting shot for for you praise, just tell everybody why they need to get involved in AI in 30 seconds or less, just the listeners out there, what their first step should be to be involved in AI, other than listening to you in quantum physics or the crazy guy on the radio.

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Praise Alayode  33:24

So I think AI is a wonderful opportunity, and I, as the human praise Allah, who is imperfect, implores you to go and check it out. If you’re scared of using the actual AI platform. Go on YouTube, and when you’ve gotten the strength, just learn about it, learn about it and see and then think about the dreams that you have and put it in AI and say, hey, I want to do this and see it take root. So I give you three steps. Number one, Google it, use it, then actually do what you’re using, do it and and dream big, because, like, I was at John Hopkins yesterday, and I saw one of the students. They’re like, Yeah, I’m having a startup, and I used AI to give me the idea. And their friend just won $110 million in venture. So that doesn’t encourage you. Excuse me,

Speaker 1  34:27

there’s a dream. There’s a dream.

Praise Alayode  34:29

You know, you know it encourages me because they’re sophomores,

Nestor Aparicio  34:34

and they use that. You know, what encourages me is being old, and I’m 57 is this technology is three years old, nobody’s ahead of you. And that’s the thing that in the teaching is like no one’s ahead of you. And I’ll drop the mic on this because I am going to get a crab cake. A lie a day. Did I get that right? A lie? Oh, day. Yeah. All right. I took me 45 minute lie. I’ve gotten it I will never get it wrong again. Praise. A lie a day is that is. Yeah, all right, just the way your mom would say. It’s very lyrical. I the thing that was impressed upon me in this boot camp that I’m involved in is AI’s not going to take your job. Someone that’s going to learn AI is going to take your job. And that was a message my wife’s with a big Verizon tech. She’s been there 30 years. They’re having a lot of cuts, and she’s getting the AI school and the new CEO, all those things are these tectonic plates are shifting. You know, Trumpism, the country, all of those things. But AI is moving forward. And I want to encourage my audience through people like you. You don’t need to be in quantum physics or into the ravens and the Orioles to learn AI and how to do something useful for you. So I’ll leave it at that. Praise. Thank you. I appreciate you. Beginning, that’s the end. All right, you’re coming back. All right, you come back anytime you want. All right. On behalf of my friends at Coppet state, and you know, I do do the show over at Cocos, which is near Morgan State, but we give them a because they invite everybody over there, it’s all good. We’re getting Maryland crab cake tour out on the road. It’s all brought to you by our friends at the Maryland Lotter I Raven scratch offs to give away, also the candy cane that are going to be scented and make me smell like Santa Claus, giving away peppermint sticks, which I love. I am Nestor. We are W, N, S T. Am 1570 Towson, Baltimore, and we never stop talking positive.