By Tim Brannon posted on February 5, 2025 – Best Practices | www.rurallifestyledealer.com
A few weeks ago, the world’s news headline was, “China’s DeepSeek-R1 shocks the world with its new Artificial Intelligence.” Speculation was the platform was perhaps stolen, copied, revamped and introduced to the world as a rival of our AI programs at a fraction of the cost.
Well butter my buns and call me a biscuit, who would have thought that? I mean yes, we have seen sneak previews of say, one of our most advanced fighter planes only to have China preview a fleet of look-alikes at air shows around the world the next day. They have even been caught trying to steal the genetics of our hybrid seeds. I talked to one of our company’s engineers who traveled to China, and he was listed as such and was detained at the airport whilst the salespeople completed their mission.
That is what China does, copy, cheapen and sell products to the world but shuns any free thought innovation as our engineers are taught to do, and they keep these engineers out. So, why is this important? Simply put, and we plagiarize a suthun’ general, Natan Bedford Forrest, who said “To win the wowah (we southerners pronounce war as a two-syllable word) you have to get there firstist with the mostest”.
My daughter’s workforce was told by the owner that they would not be replaced by AI but, that they would be replaced by someone who uses AI. AI is the tool that allows one to assimilate thoughts and facts in such a fast, logical way that it influences others to believe and act on your supposition in a way you and AI determines. Example: I did breakfast with a bunch of friends who, in our setting, we wouldn’t trust a single sentence or story to be true. These guys are story tellers and embellishers extraordinaire. One whipped out his smart phone AI app and asked it to write a mission statement for our group.