EVENT: Zlane & App-In Club - Breaking Down Gen AI with Tianyi Huang (MIT)

Today we were honoured to invite Tianyi Huang from the App-In Club to educate us about the trends and applications of Artificial Intelligence - specifically for Gen Zs. Either than the practicals - we discussed the ethnicity of AI - including our shortened attention span and how we can find “motivation” to pursue our intrinsic passions.⏰ TIMESTAMPS:05:35 - Tianyi Intro - YC Founder, App-In Club, MIT App Inventor06:06 - The Flaws of Traditional Coding Classes11:15 - Solving Coding Problems vs Replicating Code12:15 - Persevering for a summer internship14:42 - Prototyping software backed by MIT and Google16:26 - The sense of responsibility for AI evolution18:26 - How can you get access to MIT labs without a “resource” heavy parent?19:59 - The community for all levels of tech enthusiasts (beginners, intermediate, advanced)23:02 - Partnering with non-profit organisations, starting chapters25:05 - Helping YOU outsource funding, help teachers have better AI knowledge27:12 - NO BS: HOW TO BUILD A STRONG NETWORK!!30:19 - AI tutor to teach you AP Calculus better than your school teachers.32:11 - Why do parents pay human tutors more money than AI tutors?34:01 - 101% of AI data is accurate??36:21 - SKIBIDI37:22 - ChatGPT, Claude, Anthropic, Gemini, Google AI - ALL POWERED BY…39:07 - Nvidia is focusing on data-centric models, but we have FINITE data??40:32 - AI Researchers have been trying to figure this out for 100+ years.41:49 - Prompt Engineering is not the future.42:18 - Personalised + Context Aware + Multi-Data = FUTURE OF AI45:19 - Why tf should I read research papers (Is Tony a crazy guy??)45:54 - “I work myself till I’m dying”47:10 - The “Underrated” Dopamine Spike with Research Papers48:59 - Choosing Research Papers like Choosing Relationships: interesting??50:22 - Shortcuts when you READ!!52:06 - Stop asking me “How do you come up with these crazy ideas???”52:33 - “I just solved cancer” is a common mistake53:54 - 8-second attention span: why is this actually fking happening to us!\56:36 - You are HORRIBLE at motivating yourself, so stop trying!!57:50 - The more you think about something, the easier you can forget.59:09 - Covid 19 and social media popping off1:00:20 - Time travelling in the future?!1:02:26 - Factory workers won’t get REPLACED by AI1:04:09 - The first iPhone came out WHEN????1:07:23 - OpenAI vs Google vs Meta: ChatGPT is LOSING!1:09:56 - OpenAI will die.1:12:33 - Cutting a hole in your brain for Elon Musk’s microchip1:12:46 - If you can live in your dream world vs reality: THE MATRIXXXXXX1:15:19 - The Sci-Fi movies: 100-150 years till it comes true :01:16:48 - Sentimental AI is coming soon (AI with actual human emotions?!)1:18:41 - Push. Push. Push.1:21:36 - Watching “brain-rott” videos ARE GOOD!!1:23:35 - App-In Club & The Gen Z Fastlane