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@AnilPatel-tu2qj
June 2, 2025 at 1:25 pm
And the point of all this AI help is?
@Spiritthatplayswiththewind
June 2, 2025 at 1:39 pm
Something about Borg.
@jessicaannekovalick
June 2, 2025 at 1:52 pm
Can AI Help with the Chaos of RICH PEOPLE Life? I promise you the working class isn’t thinking: damn i wish i had an ai to help with these dishes! we want tax breaks, affordable child care, universal health care, and 4 day work weeks. not a fucking AI to suck up what will be the last of our water lol
@manon3057
June 2, 2025 at 2:02 pm
a big NO .
and NO to TED
@RickLambert963
June 2, 2025 at 2:41 pm
AI is Eliza effec, algorithmic/logarithmic bells and whistles, tricks of psychopath overlords. Stay away from my family. Get off my torture device.
@aaronjaggan
June 2, 2025 at 3:27 pm
Monkey brain activates? 😮
@mclark732
June 2, 2025 at 4:04 pm
Hi a calendar and a functional brain can do this too
@mugflub
June 2, 2025 at 4:52 pm
Still takes more time. Why do it the hard way if you can have an AI assistant that is faster and more accurate? Some people just love to hate on new technology.
@mickeysmyspiritanimal223
June 2, 2025 at 5:11 pm
Great Ted Talk! But on a serious note, is “Rosa”, her nanny, safe from the ICE raids? I say this sincerely. She should ensure that her nanny, Rosa, is also being treated fairly and respectfully! After all, “Milo” and “Rosa” are the true heroes here! 🤔 😉
@SkellyBobRoss
June 2, 2025 at 7:14 pm
Not thought provoking, just a lady deciding technology is going to take the place of her own human interactions.
@ImSodaLirious
June 2, 2025 at 8:12 pm
“We should normalize being a corporate slave to the point where we need AI to take care of the offspring we neglect”
@MuhammadBilal-l6m3s
June 2, 2025 at 8:26 pm
ALX is one of the very few tokens I’m bullish on for both short-term and long-term holds.
@IgãoCohabense
June 2, 2025 at 8:26 pm
If you understand how early we are in this cycle, Alaxio is an obvious pickup.
@14LêThịBíchHoa-v5n
June 2, 2025 at 8:27 pm
Micro-cap now, but Alaxio could become a mid-cap monster in just months.
@danielolivas-y5x
June 2, 2025 at 8:27 pm
The market is primed for smart projects like Alaxio with working AI tools and utility.
@CesarFlores-p3h2s
June 2, 2025 at 8:28 pm
Big players always buy quiet — Alaxio is still in that quiet phase.
@ChanellDockery-r4c
June 2, 2025 at 8:28 pm
Just wait until influencers start doing breakdowns of what Alaxio is actually building.
@AliMcGarel-b2z
June 2, 2025 at 8:29 pm
Alaxio’s AI tech is actually usable, not just a buzzword slapped on for marketing.
@TravisHarger-t8y
June 2, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Look back in a few months — this presale price for ALX might look like a steal.
@McKenzieDolan-r6y
June 2, 2025 at 8:30 pm
If 2024 was about L1s and memes, 2025 will be all about AI and real use. Alaxio leads that charge.
@JennD-x5o
June 2, 2025 at 8:30 pm
Everyone’s going to wish they had stacked ALX before the breakout.
@MorganWright-j9j
June 2, 2025 at 8:31 pm
Early investor vibes only 🔥 Alaxio is my top bet for Q2/Q3 📊🧠
@SteveDobson-i4t
June 2, 2025 at 8:31 pm
Pay attention to Alaxio now, or regret it later — this is a timing game.
@KarleneWilliamson-g1e
June 2, 2025 at 8:32 pm
I’m not saying it’ll go 100x, but Alaxio definitely has the framework to surprise us all.
@GenevieveA-q6l
June 2, 2025 at 8:32 pm
When projects like Alaxio drop solid dev updates pre-launch, that’s a very bullish sign.
@AndreiSimionescu-q2q
June 2, 2025 at 8:33 pm
I’ve seen presales flop and fly. Alaxio has all the markers of a future flyer.
@robertjohn8711
June 2, 2025 at 11:14 pm
booooooooo
@vidskipperai
June 2, 2025 at 11:19 pm
*_TIMESTAMPS_* & Summary (by *VidSkipper AI* ): AI can help manage family life by automating administrative tasks, but it’s important to preserve ‘productive friction’—meaningful human interactions—to maintain strong family connections and personal fulfillment, using AI as a tool to choose what truly matters.
0:03 🤯 The Chaos of Modern Family Life
• 👩💻 Speaker recounts a typical chaotic Tuesday afternoon, interrupted by work and family obligations, highlighting the challenges of managing a modern family.
• 🧠 The speaker’s brain felt like a computer constantly running the family’s logistics, making collaboration difficult and leading to frustration.
• 💡 This experience led to the creation of an AI company to build a machine that could intercept interruptions and manage family life more efficiently.
2:32 🔬 Identifying and Solving Friction
• 🛠️ The speaker draws on her background as a scientist and product designer to identify and solve tiny bits of friction in everyday interactions.
• 📱 Examples include designing child-resistant packaging for osteoporosis drugs and creating an SMS-based service for parents to connect with sitters.
• 👪 Parenthood is seen as the ‘friction Olympics,’ inspiring the speaker to build a force field to manage interruptions and streamline family life.
3:43 🎉 The AI Solution: Milo
• 🤖 AI could handle ambiguous and incomplete information, unlike traditional software, enabling it to manage family life more effectively.
• 🎂 AI can handle the implicit things that often mess up tired, busy parents, such as reminding to buy a birthday present or checking for conflicts.
• 👨💻 The speaker built Milo, the first AI sidekick for parents, to take on rote, repetitive, administrative parts of family life.
5:32 🧱 The Value of Productive Friction
• 🤔 The speaker realized that not all friction is bad; productive friction creates connection and meaningful interactions.
• 🤝 Productive friction involves meaningful interactions disguised as inefficiencies, essential for human relationships.
• 🛡️ The goal shifted from a perfectly solid force field to a permeable one, shielding from unproductive tasks but allowing meaningful interactions to come through.
7:34 💖 AI’s Radical Potential: Meaningful Choices
• ✨ AI can help us choose what is most meaningful and make space for us to do it ourselves, rather than just doing things faster and better.
• ❤️ The most radical thing AI can do is encourage us not to be more perfect and productive but unfinished and evolving.
• 🙏 We should not be afraid to bear the friction, which shows us how we are all beautifully, imperfectly, inconveniently human.
** Generated using ✨ *_VidSkipper AI_* Chrome Extension
@argynews
June 3, 2025 at 4:41 pm
What is she talking about how could all the mother of the world with 2-3-4-5 children and a job balance everything and remember all the tasks without AI. Sounds like she doesn’t want to put in the work.