What is considered action faking? Is what I'm thinking of doing action faking?

[El1mination]

Hello, my goal is to create an e-commerce website where I can sell some sort of AI product. In order to create AI, I have to learn some programming languages like Python and go through some hoops to create it. A few days ago, I created a separate post where I asked if I should code my website or use an external tool to create it, I decided on using an external tool but most of the replies were telling me that if I decided to code it myself, it would have been action faking and I would be wasting my time. While I do agree with this, I am wondering if my fundamental plan of creating an AI product to sell would also be considered action faking because of all the learning I would have to do to get it up and running when there are easier things I could be selling. I am choosing AI because I think the demand right now is high, I can create high value for it to where I can also charge high prices, and I am in a situation where choosing AI as my product would be beneficial to me. This is just my idea of what I think I can do, I'm not set in stone about creating AI products but I think that I am a little passion so I might be able to make one that sells. If anyone here is a tech head can you walk me through the process of making an AI and if it's feasible? thanks

 

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[Bounce Back]

If anyone here is a tech head can you walk me through the process of making an AI and if it's feasible?

So not an AI guy myself but am an engineer and have been playing with it now for a bit and am currently doing an academic project with chatgpt (not at a super detailed use-case level though).

I'll start with saying it entirely depends on what specifically you want to do. Like we'd have to hear the exact idea to even get close to knowing. A lot of these new AI products you see out there are not really even creating a new AI, they are just training a general purpose model (or taking a trained one) and then fine-tuning it or wrapping ChatGPT with layers of prompts to make it seem like a unique product (or combining layers of various other AIs together to make what appears like one thing but is really a few different talking together).

I say that to say you may be barking up the wrong tree learning AI from scratch when really depending on your use case you may just be able to ask an existing LLM AI like chatgpt or whatever in a specific way and it can already do it. (Again can't stress enough - this entirely depends on your exact use case).

 

[El1mination]

So not an AI guy myself but am an engineer and have been playing with it now for a bit and am currently doing an academic project with chatgpt (not at a super detailed use-case level though).

I'll start with saying it entirely depends on what specifically you want to do. Like we'd have to hear the exact idea to even get close to knowing. A lot of these new AI products you see out there are not really even creating a new AI, they are just training a general purpose model (or taking a trained one) and then fine-tuning it or wrapping ChatGPT with layers of prompts to make it seem like a unique product (or combining layers of various other AIs together to make what appears like one thing but is really a few different talking together).

I say that to say you may be barking up the wrong tree learning AI from scratch when really depending on your use case you may just be able to ask an existing LLM AI like chatgpt or whatever in a specific way and it can already do it. (Again can't stress enough - this entirely depends on your exact use case).

Alright I think that I might not use AI as my product that I will be selling as there are already many products out there and I don't know much about it

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Hello, my goal is to create an e-commerce website where I can sell some sort of AI product.

Why?

For what need? What solution? Anyone can create a ChatGPT wrapper with Bubble in 2 hours.

Sounds like you need to read Unscripted if this is the conclusion you came to after reading TMF .

But I get it, its 400 pages of nothing new and might take 8 hours to read - or you can spend 8 years barking up the wrong tree only to realize you have nothing to show for it. If only someone could take the time to explain the various multi-faceted layers of value which potentially could help save you from a disastrous waste of time. (Sorry but I won't explain them here as I already written about them; however you won't find these concepts in TMF ).

 

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[El1mination]

Why?

For what need? What solution? Anyone can create a ChatGPT wrapper with Bubble in 2 hours.

Sounds like you need to read Unscripted if this is the conclusion you came to after reading TMF .

But I get it, its 400 pages of nothing new and might take 8 hours to read - or you can spend 8 years barking up the wrong tree only to realize you have nothing to show for it. If only someone could take the time to explain the various multi-faceted layers of value which potentially could help save you from a disastrous waste of time. (Sorry but I won't explain them here as I already written about them; however you won't find these concepts in TMF ).

Alright alright if you want me to read your book so badly I'll read it. Is there a certain order you want me to read them in? Do you want me to read The Great Rat Race first or Unscripted first?

 

[MJ DeMarco]

Alright alright if you want me to read your book so badly I'll read it

That's not the point. I don't need your $5, I need you to think for yourself and quit chasing money, trends, or whatever some guru on X is chirping about.

 

[El1mination]

That's not the point. I don't need your $5, I need you to think for yourself and quit chasing money, trends, or whatever some guru on X is chirping about.

$27, Is there an order I should read them in?

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

Alright alright if you want me to read your book so badly I'll read it. Is there a certain order you want me to read them in? Do you want me to read The Great Rat Race first or Unscripted first?

$27, Is there an order I should read them in?

Honestly, I don't know. I feel like you haven't read TMF either based on your posts here, so at this point, I'm not sure what book you need to read. If you already have Rat Race, just read that and see if things clear up.

 

[El1mination]

Honestly, I don't know. I feel like you haven't read TMF either based on your posts here, so at this point, I'm not sure what book you need to read. If you already have Rat Race, just read that and see if things clear up.

I have only read TMF, what makes you think I haven't read it?

 

[ZCP]

@El1mination maybe use your skillset of arguing with people trying to help you? a website where people offer someone help, then you come in and post a bunch of useless rhetoric.

OR

Answer the question ..... Why?
why do you want to do this? what is the outcome? what value does it provide? who is your customer avatar? what problem do you solve?

All the answers you need are in the books, this forum, the questions we ask you. Chill.

 

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[El1mination]

@El1mination maybe use your skillset of arguing with people trying to help you? a website where people offer someone help, then you come in and post a bunch of useless rhetoric.

OR

Answer the question ..... Why?
why do you want to do this? what is the outcome? what value does it provide? who is your customer avatar? what problem do you solve?

All the answers you need are in the books, this forum, the questions we ask you. Chill.

What was I posting that was useless rhetoric? I'm sorry I didn't mean to come off as aggressive or anything, that's not how I meant it at all. I am just looking for some guidance in trying to find the value I can offer to others.

 

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an e-commerce website where I can sell some sort of AI product.

This doesn't really make sense to me. E-commerce as in generally just selling a digital product that relates to AI, which I assume you mean generative AI (e.g., GPT, midjourney)? Not SaaS? Or do you mean a gen AI tool that can be used for e-commerce (e.g., writing copy based on products, writing blog posts, creating ads)?

There's so much potential to AI, but costs (ChatGPT is not cheap), reliability (e.g., hallucinations), and security/confidentiality are major problems. There are academic papers published everyday to try and resolve those issues, but not sure if were there yet. Once that's unlocked, value of AI is going to skyrocket. But yeah, basic ChatGPT wrapper probably won't be much of a value add right now.

 

[ZCP]

What was I posting that was useless rhetoric? I'm sorry I didn't mean to come off as aggressive or anything, that's not how I meant it at all. I am just looking for some guidance in trying to find the value I can offer to others.

then maybe take the guidance and answer the questions

 

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[El1mination]

This doesn't really make sense to me. E-commerce as in generally just selling a digital product that relates to AI, which I assume you mean generative AI (e.g., GPT, midjourney)? Not SaaS? Or do you mean a gen AI tool that can be used for e-commerce (e.g., writing copy based on products, writing blog posts, creating ads)?

There's so much potential to AI, but costs (ChatGPT is not cheap), reliability (e.g., hallucinations), and security/confidentiality are major problems. There are academic papers published everyday to try and resolve those issues, but not sure if were there yet. Once that's unlocked, value of AI is going to skyrocket. But yeah, basic ChatGPT wrapper probably won't be much of a value add right now.

Yeah I decided to start trying to find something of value I can offer to others to solve some sort of problem so AI is off the list. I have a few strategies that I think I can use to find a problem, the first is something that MJ recommended in TMF, he said to recognize when you have a daily problem throughout the day and when you catch yourself complaining about it, realize that and try to find a solution for it. And the other strategy I am going to use it to go through this forum and just see how other people found their value and try to replicate it in my own way.

 

[El1mination]

then maybe take the guidance and answer the questions

I am taking the guidance, I thought the questions were rhetorical but if you want I'll answer them.

 

[El1mination]

Why?

For what need? What solution? Anyone can create a ChatGPT wrapper with Bubble in 2 hours.

I was thinking about AI because I thought it was something that I could pick up on fast as I know a little about programming. I thought maybe I could solve a problem people have but I think it would require a lot of people to do that so I'm not sure that I can do it myself.

 

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[ZCP]

I was thinking about AI because I thought it was something that I could pick up on fast as I know a little about programming. I thought maybe I could solve a problem people have but I think it would require a lot of people to do that so I'm not sure that I can do it myself.

does that answer your question then, is this action faking?

checkout MJ's CENTS approach and answer that survey / those questions and see if it is something worth pursuing

 

[ZCP]

and back down the anger and aggression ..... you come off as a 19 year old know it all

 

[El1mination]

does that answer your question then, is this action faking?

checkout MJ's CENTS approach and answer that survey / those questions and see if it is something worth pursuing

Yes I think it does, I guess it is considered action faking. I was just thinking of ideas though.

 

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[ZCP]

Yes I think it does, I guess it is considered action faking. I was just thinking of ideas though.

Keep talking / brainstorming. Ideas are free. Keep filtering them through CENTS and something will pop up. Get as many lines as you can into the water! You got this!!

 

[El1mination]

and back down the anger and aggression ..... you come off as a 19 year old know it all

You're not reading me right, there was no anger and aggression in anything I said. It's hard to gage, guage, gauge, well I forgot the spelling but what I'm trying to say is that it's hard to tell the tone of someone when reading a block of text. I also said earlier that I didn't mean to come off as aggressive, I'm trying to be conversational and not aggressive.

 

[El1mination]

Keep talking / brainstorming. Ideas are free. Keep filtering them through CENTS and something will pop up. Get as many lines as you can into the water! You got this!!

I'll check out the cents thing you sent me. Thanks

 

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[ZCP]

You're not reading me right, there was no anger and aggression in anything I said. It's hard to gage, guage, gauge, well I forgot the spelling but what I'm trying to say is that it's hard to tell the tone of someone when reading a block of text. I also said earlier that I didn't mean to come off as aggressive, I'm trying to be conversational and not aggressive.

you just did it again.

quit handing your failing to others. take responsibility and affect change.

 

[El1mination]

you just did it again.

quit handing your failing to others. take responsibility and affect change.

Lol I don't know what you want me to say, I'm not handing you my failure. I'm telling you that I am not trying to be aggressive. If there is a certain way that I'm talking that makes me seem aggressive, why don't you tell me?

 

[MJ DeMarco]

I'll check out the cents thing you sent me. Thanks

This is why I think u haven’t read or comprehended TMF - it is its core principle.

 

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[El1mination]

This is why I think u haven’t read or comprehended TMF - it is its core principle.

Oh yeah Time, Control, Scale, Entry. I took notes about all this stuff. I just didn't know that's what Cents stood for.

 

[El1mination]

I might need to re-read through all my notes. One problem I have is that I sometimes forget the information I read from a book which is why I took notes, also that might be another reason reading Unscripted will help.

 

[El1mination]

I'm sorry if I came across as arrogant, rude, or aggressive to anyone. I am trying to understand what you all are saying but I am a bit lost right now when trying to find the value I can offer to others. I didn't mean to come across like that.

 

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[MJ DeMarco]

I'm sorry if I came across as arrogant, rude, or aggressive to anyone. I am trying to understand what you all are saying but I am a bit lost right now when trying to find the value I can offer to others. I didn't mean to come across like that.

I didn't find your posts as rude, but making an apology demonstrates some strong emotional intelligence. Good job my friend. This type of skill and self-reflection will do you wonders as an entrepreneur.

 

[StrikingViper69]

I was thinking about AI because I thought it was something that I could pick up on fast as I know a little about programming. I thought maybe I could solve a problem people have but I think it would require a lot of people to do that so I'm not sure that I can do it myself.

Have you identified a specific problem you want to solve?