The summary might look something like this:
The speaker reflects on how a minor email problem led him to use an AI text generator that could write code and answer questions. He compares the AI to Napster, the first sign of how the internet would disrupt many industries. He wonders if he is witnessing the start of a new wave of change that will affect his world and his work. He ends with a joke about an AI generated ad for NordVPN.
1. The speaker is experiencing an existential crisis about the rapid changes in the world, particularly the impact of the internet.
2. The speaker has been living through the mass adoption of the internet and is aware of the transformation it has caused.
3. The speaker believes that new technologies generally follow a sigmoid curve, with a slow takeoff, an explosion of growth, a period of peak, and then a flattening out.
4. The speaker mentions several industries that have been disrupted or completely changed by the internet, including the music industry, travel agents, video rental stores, encyclopedias, shopping malls, big box stores, the postal service, journalism, and the entire media industry.
5. The speaker recalls Napster as the first major sign of the disruption caused by the internet.
6. The speaker grew up in a world that is about to change radically due to the new technological curve.
7. The speaker's specific problem is related to email backups on Gmail. The speaker noticed that a significant number of messages were missing from the backup, which led to the discovery that labels in Gmail only attach to individual messages, not the full thread.
8. The speaker decided to use Google's Apps Script service to write a script that would attach labels to the full thread in Gmail.
9. The speaker used Chat GPT to translate their tax description into the Google app script syntax. The AI made a few mistakes but was corrected by the speaker.
10. The speaker believes that Chat GPT could be a tool for making work more efficient and is not concerned about it taking over jobs.
11. The speaker is worried about the potential changes that AI could bring to the world, comparing it to the disruption caused by Napster in the late 90s.
12. The speaker is using NordVPN as a tool for staying connected while traveling or browsing the internet, highlighting its features such as access to content from anywhere in the world, connection to up to six devices simultaneously, and 24/7 customer support.