Podcast appearances and mentions of jonathan low

Jonathan Low centers his conference keynote speaking and leadership coaching work with organizations and senior executives to measurably improve their leadership effectiveness, growth development, and business performance, especially in the areas of Sales Performance, Service Quality, Leadership Communication, and Team Development. He believes that "Increased self-awareness accelerates professional relations and business success".   A Global Speaking Fellow, Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), Master Certified Coach (ICF MCC), and one of Asia's leading Sales, Service & Leadership Optimisers, and International Author, Jonathan has successfully delivered his high-energy, engaging, and transformational keynotes to audiences globally.   Jonathan has more than 25 years of in-depth executive experience in leadership, sales management, customer experience, and business resilience, working with executives and their leadership teams throughout Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and North America.   In today's episode, Jonathon Low shared: It is in his DNA to ask, “How can I be of service to others?” since his background was in hospitality. A question that led Jonathan into speaking and consulting was:  “Is there more I can do to better serve?”  Jonathan's Life-Changing Question: “What can I do to better serve it forward?” This question is inspired by the movie ‘pay it forward'. How you can create a positive ripple effect and raise your own energetic vibration eg, Smile at someone else, you are giving them a gift.  If you get a smile back it is a bonus. A great example of how he served from the heart, and many years later, it opened the door to speaking and consulting work. How to optimize sales by winning clients' loyalty using the ‘service' acronym: Service: Self-mastery - as a leader, you must lead yourself first before you can impact others Experience - what kind of experiences are you creating for clients so they want to come back Relationship - in what ways are you building the relationship? Value - ‘serve it forward' to add value first (people don't care how much you know, but how much you care) Innovation - how can you add to the experience.. consider before, during, and after the engagement. Culture - How can you rally the team together (take ownership and accountability) Empowerment - how can you empower others to operate when you're not there? Habits that have led Jonathan to success:  Learning daily (30-60 mins every morning on a book summary) Gratitude journal, being thankful for every day Family - they are a great source of energy and help keep perspective  Contribute especially to “Together We Can Change The World,” - an organization that helps empower children and women in different parts of the world.   Resources mentioned in this episode: https://www.GlobalSuccessLearning.net https://www.JonathanLow.net https://www.Linkedin.com/in/JonathanLow www.TWCCTW.org   Recommended Books Marshall Goldsmith books https://marshallgoldsmith.com/book/   If you would like more insights on profit maximization for your business, visit www.ProfitHive.com.au

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: A newcomer's guide to the technical AI safety field, published by Chin Ze Shen on November 4, 2022 on The AI Alignment Forum. This post was written during Refine. Thanks to Jonathan Low, Linda Linsefors, Koen Holtman, Aaron Scher, and Nicholas Kees Dupuis for helpful discussion and feedback. Disclaimer: This post reflects my current understanding of the field and may not be an accurate representation of it. Feel free to comment if you feel that there are misrepresentations. Motivations I remember being fairly confused when I first started reading AI safety related posts, especially when it pertains to specific ideas or proposals, as there may be implicit assumptions behind those posts that relies on some background understanding about the research agenda. I have since had the opportunity to clear up many of those confusions by talking to many people especially while I was participating in Refine. Looking back, there were many background assumptions about the field I wish I had known earlier, so here's the post I never had. This post does not intend to cover topics like why AI safety is important, how to get into the field, or an overview of research agendas, as there are plenty of materials covering these topics already. Some terminology Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to intelligences that are created artificially, where intelligence measures an agent's ability to achieve goals in a wide range of environments as per Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter's definition. Artificial general intelligence (AGI) refers to a machine capable of behaving intelligently over many domains, unlike narrow AIs which only perform one task. Artificial superintelligence (ASI), or “superintelligent AI”, refers to an intellect that is much smarter than the best human brains in practically every field, including scientific creativity, general wisdom and social skills. On the other hand, transformative AI (TAI) is an AI that precipitates a transition at least comparable to the agricultural or industrial revolution, where the concept refers to its effects instead of its capabilities. In practice however, the terms AGI, ASI, and TAI are sometimes used interchangeably to loosely mean “an AI that is much more powerful than humans”, where “power” (related to “optimization”) is often used to loosely mean “intelligence”. AI safety is about making the development of AI go safely. It is often used to refer to AGI safety or AI alignment (or just “alignment” because “AI alignment” is too long), which roughly refers to aligning a hypothetical future AI to what humans want in a way that is not catastrophic to humans in the long term. There is of course the question of “which humans should we align the AI to” that is often raised, though the question of “how do we even properly align an intelligent system to anything at all” would be much a more central problem to most researchers in the field. In other communities however, AI safety is also used in the context of ensuring the safety of autonomous control systems such as self-driving cars and unmanned aircrafts, which is typically outside of the scope of AI alignment. In this post however, I will mostly use the term AI safety to mean AI alignment as how it is often used in introductory materials like this one, although it may be generally better to have clearer distinctions of these terms. In Steve Byrnes' diagram from this post, the red box serves as a good representation of the AI alignment field, and separates “alignment” from “existential risk (x-risk) mitigation” in a nice way: The diagram below from a talk by Paul Christiano also describes alignment (“make AI aligned”) as a specific subset of “making AI go well”. Brief history of AI and AI safety AI development can roughly be divided into the following era: 1952 - 1956: The birth of AI by a handful of ...

This week Jeremy interviews Tom May of The Menzingers  Just ahead of their full US tour together - Jeremy and Tom talk tour preparation for On The Impossible Past, finding the Descendents, the Punk O Rama comps and Osker, his musical instrument journey with violin piano and guitar, covering Blink 182 at a talent show,  Bob and the Sagets and his first time recording, split CDs, how the Menzingers formed, admiration for 311, working with Jesse Cannon, signing to Go-Kart Records, the first time The Menzingers and Touche Amore played together, recording at Atlas Studios in Chicago the first time, Lawrence Arms / Alkaline Trio, touring with Broadway Calls, the story of signing to Epitaph records and releasing On The Impossible Past, recording Rented World with Jonathan Low, his relationship with Will Yip, and so much more! SUBSCRIBE TO THE PATREON to hear a bonus episode where Will answered questions that were submitted by subscribers! Follow the show on INSTAGRAM and TWITTER

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Levels of goals and alignment, published by zeshen on September 16, 2022 on The AI Alignment Forum. This post was written as part of Refine. Thanks to Adam Shimi, Lucas Teixeira, Linda Linsefors, and Jonathan Low for helpful feedback and comments. Epistemic status: highly uncertain. This post reflects my understanding of the terminologies and may not reflect the general consensus of AI alignment researchers (if any). Motivation I have been very confused with the various terminologies of alignment e.g. ‘inner alignment', ‘outer alignment', ‘intent alignment', etc for the longest time. For instance, someone might talk about a particular example of inner misalignment and I would be left wondering how the presence of a mesa-optimizer was established, only to find out much later that we were never on the same page at all. Through many more conversations with people and reading more posts, I thought I finally had cleared this up and was able to stop asking ‘what do you mean by inner alignment' in every conversation I was in. However, this confusion came back to bite me when I came across the terms ‘robustness' and ‘alignment' as being different concepts in the context of ML safety. In this post, I attempt to clarify my understanding on the different levels of goals and alignment, as well as give examples of each type of misalignment. I expect a lot of disagreements and I welcome suggestions to and pushback. Levels of goals Humanity's ultimate terminal goals These are the ultimate goals that humanity will have, given enough time to ruminate over them. They can be thought of as our true goals after a long reflection or humanity's coherent extrapolated volition. To moral anti-realists, these ultimate goals may not even exist. Nevertheless, there are some goals that are almost certainly closer to these hypothetical ultimate goals than others (e.g. reducing suffering is almost certainly better than increasing it). Current human intent / goals These are the intentions and goals of humans that are somewhat in line to our values. In other words, these include the things we want and exclude the things we don't want (e.g. we'd like to eat when we're hungry but not to the point of puking). Of course, there are different levels of human goals, where some are instrumental in different ways while others are more terminal. Humans are notoriously bad at knowing what we really want, but we shall ignore these issues for now and assume there is a coherent set of goals that we want. AI's base goals These are the goals that the AI pursues after, whether it is trained or programmed. They can either be explicitly specified by humans or inferred through some kind of training process. AI's mesa-optimizer's goals These are the goals of a mesa-optimizer which may exist under certain conditions. This will be further discussed in the next section. Levels of alignment Solving philosophy This is about aligning ‘what we currently want' with ‘what we truly want if we had all the time and wisdom to think about it'. An example of such a misalignment is when people in the previous centuries would want to own slaves, but we now know is morally reprehensible. A hypothetical AI fully aligned to human values at the time would probably be very effective slave-drivers. An obvious issue with failing to solve moral philosophy is that a powerful AI fully aligned only to our current human values may lead us to some bad value lock-in scenarios, where it would continue to pursue presently set goals that we find morally reprehensible in the future. Proposed solutions to this problem include some form of corrigibility, where an AI allows its goals to be modified by its human programmers. That being said, if we can have an AGI that is only aligned to what we want now, it would already be a huge win. This misalignment may a...

Adam (@adamJamescain92) and Kev (@K77LWS) are joined by Jonathan Low (@jonathanl50) of @berkshire_live to discuss Wednesdays match in Reading #SAFC #REASUN

What to expect from Sunderland's Championship clash against Reading on Wednesday with Berkshire Live's Jonathan Low and Echo writers Joe Nicholson and James Copley.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Simulators, published by janus on September 2, 2022 on The AI Alignment Forum. Thanks to Adam Shimi, Lee Sharkey, Evan Hubinger, Nicholas Dupuis, Leo Gao, Johannes Treutlein, and Jonathan Low for feedback on drafts. This work was carried out while at Conjecture. "Moebius illustration of a simulacrum living in an AI-generated story discovering it is in a simulation" by DALL-E 2 Summary TL;DR: Self-supervised learning may create AGI or its foundation. What would that look like? Unlike the limit of RL, the limit of self-supervised learning has received surprisingly little conceptual attention, and recent progress has made deconfusion in this domain more pressing. Existing AI taxonomies either fail to capture important properties of self-supervised models or lead to confusing propositions. For instance, GPT policies do not seem globally agentic, yet can be conditioned to behave in goal-directed ways. This post describes a frame that enables more natural reasoning about properties like agency: GPT, insofar as it is inner-aligned, is a simulator which can simulate agentic and non-agentic simulacra. The purpose of this post is to capture these objects in words so GPT can reference them and provide a better foundation for understanding them. I use the generic term “simulator” to refer to models trained with predictive loss on a self-supervised dataset, invariant to architecture or data type (natural language, code, pixels, game states, etc). The outer objective of self-supervised learning is Bayes-optimal conditional inference over the prior of the training distribution, which I call the simulation objective, because a conditional model can be used to simulate rollouts which probabilistically obey its learned distribution by iteratively sampling from its posterior (predictions) and updating the condition (prompt). Analogously, a predictive model of physics can be used to compute rollouts of phenomena in simulation. A goal-directed agent which evolves according to physics can be simulated by the physics rule parameterized by an initial state, but the same rule could also propagate agents with different values, or non-agentic phenomena like rocks. This ontological distinction between simulator (rule) and simulacra (phenomena) applies directly to generative models like GPT. Meta This post is intended as the first in a sequence on the alignment problem in a landscape where self-supervised simulators are a possible/likely form of powerful AI. I don't know how many subsequent posts I'll actually publish. Take it as a prompt. I use the generic term “GPT” to refer to transformers trained on next-token prediction. A while ago when I was trying to avoid having to write this post by hand, I prompted GPT-3 with an early outline of this post. I've spliced in some excerpts from it, indicated by this style. Prompt, generated text, and curation metrics here. The limit of sequence modeling Transformer-based language models have recently achieved remarkable results. – every paper since 2020 GPT is not a new form of AI in terms of its training methodology and outer objective: sequence generation from statistical models of data is an old idea. In 1951, Claude Shannon described using n-grams to approximate conditional next-letter probabilities of a text dataset and "reversed" to generate text samples. I don't know of any other notable advances until the 2010s brought the first interesting language generation results from neural networks. In 2015, Karpathy wrote a blog post/tutorial sharing his excitement about The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks: Fast forward about a year: I'm training RNNs all the time and I've witnessed their power and robustness many times, and yet their magical outputs still find ways of amusing me. This post is about sharing some of that magic with y...

For the final time this summer, we went live with the Reading FC Transfer Show after the window shut on Thursday night. Olly Allen, Ben Thomas and Adam Jones are joined by BerkshireLive's Jonathan Low to look back on Reading's business - from the good to the bad and then to the mad. We give the club's activity an old-school A to F style grade and try to sum up the last few months in just one word. The show was originally broadcast live on Twitter.

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Simulators, published by janus on September 2, 2022 on The AI Alignment Forum. Thanks to Adam Shimi, Lee Sharkey, Evan Hubinger, Nicholas Dupuis, Leo Gao, Johannes Treutlein, and Jonathan Low for feedback on drafts. This work was carried out while at Conjecture. "Moebius illustration of a simulacrum living in an AI-generated story discovering it is in a simulation" by DALL-E 2 Summary TL;DR: Self-supervised learning may create AGI or its foundation. What would that look like? Unlike the limit of RL, the limit of self-supervised learning has received surprisingly little conceptual attention, and recent progress has made deconfusion in this domain more pressing. Existing AI taxonomies either fail to capture important properties of self-supervised models or lead to confusing propositions. For instance, GPT policies do not seem globally agentic, yet can be conditioned to behave in goal-directed ways. This post describes a frame that enables more natural reasoning about properties like agency: GPT, insofar as it is inner-aligned, is a simulator which can simulate agentic and non-agentic simulacra. The purpose of this post is to capture these objects in words so GPT can reference them and provide a better foundation for understanding them. I use the generic term “simulator” to refer to models trained with predictive loss on a self-supervised dataset, invariant to architecture or data type (natural language, code, pixels, game states, etc). The outer objective of self-supervised learning is Bayes-optimal conditional inference over the prior of the training distribution, which I call the simulation objective, because a conditional model can be used to simulate rollouts which probabilistically obey its learned distribution by iteratively sampling from its posterior (predictions) and updating the condition (prompt). Analogously, a predictive model of physics can be used to compute rollouts of phenomena in simulation. A goal-directed agent which evolves according to physics can be simulated by the physics rule parameterized by an initial state, but the same rule could also propagate agents with different values, or non-agentic phenomena like rocks. This ontological distinction between simulator (rule) and simulacra (phenomena) applies directly to generative models like GPT. Meta This post is intended as the first in a sequence on the alignment problem in a landscape where self-supervised simulators are a possible/likely form of powerful AI. I don't know how many subsequent posts I'll actually publish. Take it as a prompt. I use the generic term “GPT” to refer to transformers trained on next-token prediction. A while ago when I was trying to avoid having to write this post by hand, I prompted GPT-3 with an early outline of this post. I've spliced in some excerpts from it, indicated by this style. Prompt, generated text, and curation metrics here. The limit of sequence modeling Transformer-based language models have recently achieved remarkable results. – every paper since 2020 GPT is not a new form of AI in terms of its training methodology and outer objective: sequence generation from statistical models of data is an old idea. In 1951, Claude Shannon described using n-grams to approximate conditional next-letter probabilities of a text dataset and "reversed" to generate text samples. I don't know of any other notable advances until the 2010s brought the first interesting language generation results from neural networks. In 2015, Karpathy wrote a blog post/tutorial sharing his excitement about The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks: Fast forward about a year: I'm training RNNs all the time and I've witnessed their power and robustness many times, and yet their magical outputs still find ways of amusing me. This post is about sharing some of that magic with y...

With one week to go until transfer deadline, Olly Allen is joined by Berkshire Live's Reading FC reporter Jonathan Low on the latest Transfer Show. The big news is the confirmation of George Puscas' season-long loan move to Italian side Genoa, who have an obligation to buy if they win promotion to Serie A. The striker's exit means that we are likely to see at least one new arrival in the coming days, with Naby Sarr set to finally be confirmed as a Reading player. The show was originally broadcast live on YouTube. That's the place where you can re-watch and catch all future episodes.  Sponsored by ZCZ Films, The Tilehurst End Podcast can be taken in via PodBean, Spotify, Acast, YouTube or iTunes. Furthermore, thanks to all listeners who continue to pledge to our Patreon campaign. Listeners can always get in touch with the podcast via our Twitter and Facebook pages as well as our email, thetilehurstend@gmail.com, with thoughts on the show, opinions on the team, and potential topics to sink our teeth into always welcome.

For our third transfer show show of the summer, Olly Allen is joined by Tilehurst End writer Ben Thomas and Berkshire Live's Reading FC reporter Jonathan Low.  With exactly four weeks to go until deadline day at the time of recording, we ask what business Reading still need to do, what the latest is with the left-back situation and what the hell is the hold up with Naby Sarr's move?! It's also hard to avoid the injury situation, plus there's chat on transfer target Omari Hutchinson and the two players that the Royals will want to shift before September 1 - George Puscas and Liam Moore. The show was originally broadcast live on YouTube. That's the place where you can re-watch and catch all future episodes. 

For our second transfer show show of the summer, Olly Allen is joined by Tilehurst End writer Ben Thomas and Berkshire Live's Reading FC reporter Jonathan Low.  There is nowhere else to start other than the Shane Long rumours that may finally come true, while there's also chat on the players currently on trial with the Royals and the importance of keeping hold of Lucas Joao amid interest from clubs in England and abroad. The show was originally broadcast live on YouTube. That's the place where you can re-watch and catch all future episodes. 

In this fireside chat, we hear from 2 seasoned masters in the field of Search & placement: Mr. Jonathan Low, Senior Associate with KORNFERRY andMr. Eugene Wong, Talent Acquisition Manager with GARTNER Inc. Find out their take on these 19 Career Questions!! Q1) Is a myth or reality that today's market is faced with a shortage of talent? Q2) Does a career break lower the attractiveness of a candidate to employers? Q3) What is an acceptable length for a career break? Q4) Should reasons for taking a career break be included in the CV? Q5) Are commissions the same for all recruiting firms? Q6) Are there recruiters who work harder for the candidates than the employers? Q7) Should candidates submit more than 1 CV versions to any recruiter? Q8) Do agencies pass all CVs to their client employers? Q9) Do search firms have a structured process e.g. cadence meetings with employers? Q10) Is there a 'cut-off; age? Q11) Why do recruiters keep their clients' identity a secret? Q12) How can candidates find out the hiring budget or salary range for the role? Q13) How can candidates be more visible to search firms as well as agencies? Q14) Is there room to negotiate a salary higher than the previously drawn amount? Q15) Do agencies use ATS? Q16) Are recruiters open to receive CVs even when there is no open positions? Q17) Can recruiters be persuaded to push a candidate who is only 20% shy of being the ideal one? Q18) Should candidates asks for information about their competitors who are vying for the same role? Q19) What is the Executive C-Suite Selection Process like? Catch their parting advice at the end of the video. What a dynamic duo, Thank You to both!

The transfer window is open and we've made a new addition on The Tilehurst End podcast. This is the Reading FC Transfer Show, where every couple of weeks throughout the summer we'll be discussing all the rumours and done deals.  For this first episode, Olly Allen is joined by Tilehurst End writers Adam Jones and Ben Thomas as well as Berkshire Live's Reading FC reporter Jonathan Low.  On the agenda is Josh Laurent's impending exit, a potential new arrival at left-back and a debate on the goalkeeping situation with Joe Lumley expected to sign in the coming days.  The show was originally broadcast live on YouTube. That's the place where you can re-watch and catch all future episodes. 

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Vael Gates: Risks from Advanced AI (June 2022), published by Vael Gates on June 14, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. I'm a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford HAI and CISAC. I recently gave a HAI Seminar Zoom talk, in which I lay out some of the basic arguments for existential risk from AI during the first 23m of the talk, after which I describe my research interviewing AI researchers and answer Q&A.I recommend the first 23m as a resource to send to people who are new to these arguments (the talk was aimed at computer science researchers, but is also accessible to the public). This is a pretty detailed, current as of June 2022, public-facing overview that's updated with April-May 2022 papers, and includes readings, funding, additional resources at the bottom of the page. An optional transcript of the first 23m is below; thanks to Jonathan Low for drafting it and Vaidehi Agarwalla for suggesting it. [Link to post on LessWrong] Zoom Talk Transcript Dr. Vael Gates, a HAI-CISAC postdoc at Stanford University, describes their work interviewing researchers about their perceptions of risks from current and future AI. The transcript below runs over the first 23 minutes of the talk, in which they introduce some recent AI developments, researcher timelines for AGI, and the case for existential risk from non-aligned AGI. The latter part of the talk focuses on Gates's preliminary research results, and audience Q&A. The transcript, which has been edited for clarity, is below. Dr. Gates's talk is available to watch in full on the Stanford HAI website, and on YouTube. My talk today is called “Researcher Perceptions of Current and Future AI”, though it could also be called “Researcher Perceptions of Risks from Advanced AI”, as my talk is actually focused on risk from advanced AI. The structure of this talk is as follows: I'm going to give some context for the study I did, I'll talk about the development of AI, the concept of AGI, and the alignment problem and existential risk. [Then I'll go on to the research methods I used in this study, some of the research questions I asked researchers, and the interim results, finishing with some concluding thoughts. We should have about 10-15 minutes of Q&A, if my timing is right.] Let's start with some context. Where are we in AI development? Here's some history from Wikipedia: we start with some precursors, then the birth of AI in 1952, symbolic AI, AI winter, a boom cycle, the second AI winter, and AI 1993-2011. Here we are in the deep learning paradigm, which is 2011 to the present, with AlexNet and the deep learning revolution. We have some components of the current paradigm that we wouldn't have necessarily expected in the 1950s. We have black box systems. We're using machine learning and neural networks. Compute (computing power) is very important; computing power, data, algorithmic advances, and some of these algorithmic advances are kind of aimed at scaling. That means there are methods that are very general that you can throw more compute and data into to get better behavior. We see Sutton's Bitter Lesson here, which is the idea that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective - by a large margin compared to human knowledge approaches that were used earlier on. Here's a quick comic to try and illustrate that lesson. In the early days of AIs, we used something like statistical learning, where you would know a lot about the domain and you would be very careful to use methods specific to that domain. These days there's an idea of stacking more layers, throwing more compute and data in, and you'll get ever more sophisticated behaviour. It's worth noting that we've been working on AI for less than 100 years and the current paradigm is around 10 years old, and that we've gotten pretty far in that time. H...

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Vael Gates: Risks from Advanced AI (June 2022), published by Vael Gates on June 14, 2022 on LessWrong. I'm a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford HAI and CISAC. I recently gave a HAI Seminar Zoom talk, in which I lay out some of the basic arguments for existential risk from AI during the first 23m of the talk, after which I describe my research interviewing AI researchers and answer Q&A.I recommend the first 23m as a resource to send to people who are new to these arguments (the talk was aimed at computer science researchers, but is also accessible to the public). This is a pretty detailed, current as of June 2022, public-facing overview that's updated with April-May 2022 papers, and includes readings, funding, additional resources at the bottom of the page. An optional transcript of the first 23m is below; thanks to Jonathan Low for drafting it and Vaidehi Agarwalla for suggesting it. [Link to post on the EA Forum] Zoom Talk Transcript Dr. Vael Gates, a HAI-CISAC postdoc at Stanford University, describes their work interviewing researchers about their perceptions of risks from current and future AI. The transcript below runs over the first 23 minutes of the talk, in which they introduce some recent AI developments, researcher timelines for AGI, and the case for existential risk from non-aligned AGI. The latter part of the talk focuses on Gates's preliminary research results, and audience Q&A. The transcript, which has been edited for clarity, is below. Dr. Gates's talk is available to watch in full on the Stanford HAI website, and on YouTube. My talk today is called “Researcher Perceptions of Current and Future AI”, though it could also be called “Researcher Perceptions of Risks from Advanced AI”, as my talk is actually focused on risk from advanced AI. The structure of this talk is as follows: I'm going to give some context for the study I did, I'll talk about the development of AI, the concept of AGI, and the alignment problem and existential risk. [Then I'll go on to the research methods I used in this study, some of the research questions I asked researchers, and the interim results, finishing with some concluding thoughts. We should have about 10-15 minutes of Q&A, if my timing is right.] Let's start with some context. Where are we in AI development? Here's some history from Wikipedia: we start with some precursors, then the birth of AI in 1952, symbolic AI, AI winter, a boom cycle, the second AI winter, and AI 1993-2011. Here we are in the deep learning paradigm, which is 2011 to the present, with AlexNet and the deep learning revolution. We have some components of the current paradigm that we wouldn't have necessarily expected in the 1950s. We have black box systems. We're using machine learning and neural networks. Compute (computing power) is very important; computing power, data, algorithmic advances, and some of these algorithmic advances are kind of aimed at scaling. That means there are methods that are very general that you can throw more compute and data into to get better behavior. We see Sutton's Bitter Lesson here, which is the idea that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective - by a large margin compared to human knowledge approaches that were used earlier on. Here's a quick comic to try and illustrate that lesson. In the early days of AIs, we used something like statistical learning, where you would know a lot about the domain and you would be very careful to use methods specific to that domain. These days there's an idea of stacking more layers, throwing more compute and data in, and you'll get ever more sophisticated behaviour. It's worth noting that we've been working on AI for less than 100 years and the current paradigm is around 10 years old, and that we've gotten pretty far in that time. However, some peo...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Vael Gates: Risks from Advanced AI (June 2022), published by Vael Gates on June 14, 2022 on LessWrong. I'm a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford HAI and CISAC. I recently gave a HAI Seminar Zoom talk, in which I lay out some of the basic arguments for existential risk from AI during the first 23m of the talk, after which I describe my research interviewing AI researchers and answer Q&A.I recommend the first 23m as a resource to send to people who are new to these arguments (the talk was aimed at computer science researchers, but is also accessible to the public). This is a pretty detailed, current as of June 2022, public-facing overview that's updated with April-May 2022 papers, and includes readings, funding, additional resources at the bottom of the page. An optional transcript of the first 23m is below; thanks to Jonathan Low for drafting it and Vaidehi Agarwalla for suggesting it. [Link to post on the EA Forum] Zoom Talk Transcript Dr. Vael Gates, a HAI-CISAC postdoc at Stanford University, describes their work interviewing researchers about their perceptions of risks from current and future AI. The transcript below runs over the first 23 minutes of the talk, in which they introduce some recent AI developments, researcher timelines for AGI, and the case for existential risk from non-aligned AGI. The latter part of the talk focuses on Gates's preliminary research results, and audience Q&A. The transcript, which has been edited for clarity, is below. Dr. Gates's talk is available to watch in full on the Stanford HAI website, and on YouTube. My talk today is called “Researcher Perceptions of Current and Future AI”, though it could also be called “Researcher Perceptions of Risks from Advanced AI”, as my talk is actually focused on risk from advanced AI. The structure of this talk is as follows: I'm going to give some context for the study I did, I'll talk about the development of AI, the concept of AGI, and the alignment problem and existential risk. [Then I'll go on to the research methods I used in this study, some of the research questions I asked researchers, and the interim results, finishing with some concluding thoughts. We should have about 10-15 minutes of Q&A, if my timing is right.] Let's start with some context. Where are we in AI development? Here's some history from Wikipedia: we start with some precursors, then the birth of AI in 1952, symbolic AI, AI winter, a boom cycle, the second AI winter, and AI 1993-2011. Here we are in the deep learning paradigm, which is 2011 to the present, with AlexNet and the deep learning revolution. We have some components of the current paradigm that we wouldn't have necessarily expected in the 1950s. We have black box systems. We're using machine learning and neural networks. Compute (computing power) is very important; computing power, data, algorithmic advances, and some of these algorithmic advances are kind of aimed at scaling. That means there are methods that are very general that you can throw more compute and data into to get better behavior. We see Sutton's Bitter Lesson here, which is the idea that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective - by a large margin compared to human knowledge approaches that were used earlier on. Here's a quick comic to try and illustrate that lesson. In the early days of AIs, we used something like statistical learning, where you would know a lot about the domain and you would be very careful to use methods specific to that domain. These days there's an idea of stacking more layers, throwing more compute and data in, and you'll get ever more sophisticated behaviour. It's worth noting that we've been working on AI for less than 100 years and the current paradigm is around 10 years old, and that we've gotten pretty far in that time. However, some peo...

Our guest on Global Intelligence Update - Jonathan Low   Jonathan will be talking about: WINNING CLIENTS' LOYALTY 7 Proven Practices to Convert Clients to Amazing Fans Program Overview: Every business wants to convert their clients or customers into loyal & amazing fans. Not only will such clients stay with you for the long-term, they will also be your best ambassadors through their enthusiastic, free, word-of-mouth advertising for your organization. This program is inspired by the work from the international best-selling book “ Winning Clients' Loyalty - Seven Proven Practices to Convert Clients into Amazing Fans” In this session, the 7 Proven Practices to Convert Clients into Amazing Fans, embodied in the word “S.E.R.V.I.C.E”, is aimed to help you build and exceed the customer service experience that affects your organization, your people and your personal leadership effectiveness. It will support the customer centricity mindset in seeking to understand, embrace creativity to delight, develop trust and to exceed customer's needs both internally and externally. This has led to the creation of the Service Champion 360 Assessment Tool to support and develop these 7 core pillars and competencies. At the end of this session, you will be able to: A. Increase your personal self-mastery skills in the areas of self-awareness & emotional effectiveness Be more conscious of your own emotions and how they are projected as well as be sensitized to the projections of others. Recognize your unconscious habits so as to take action on these auto-pilot patterns B. Increase your influence and communication, productivity and teamwork cooperation in a creative manner to delight. Create positive customer interactions and eliminating negative communication habits. Provides an understanding of first impressions, developing a positive attitude and defines communication in its different forms. C. Exceed Customer needs and develop better customer engagement, trust, relationship & connection for higher retention & loyalty to both internal and external customers. Cultivate the 4Cs of trust-building to develop deeper relationship engagement and connections with their internal & external clients. Discover your personal brand promise and how you can grow your circle of influence More about Jonathan Low CSP CVP Jonathan centers his speaking and executive coaching work with organizations and senior executives to measurably improve their leadership effectiveness, mental resilience and business performance especially in the areas of Sales Performance, Mental Toughness, Service Quality, Leadership Communication and Team Development. He believes that "Increased self-awareness accelerates professional relations and business success”. Jonathan has more than 30 years of professional & international business experience in executive positions in the service industry and has worked with executives and their leadership teams throughout Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and North America. A Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), Certified Virtual Presenter (CVP) and one of Asia leading Sales & Service Optimiser & Global Leadership Coach, Jonathan has successfully delivered his high energy, fun and highly engaging keynotes or workshops to international participants. He is consistently ranked within the Top 3 in GlobalGuru Hospitality for the last 6 years and is the international author of “Winning Clients' Loyalty - 7 Proven Practices to Convert Clients into Amazing Fans”. He is the creator of the Service Champion Profile 360 Assessment n collaboration with the Mental Toughness Research Institute and the founder of Global Success Learning Academy group of companies. He is also the current President (2020/2021) at the Virtual Speakers Association International (VSAI) and former President (2015/2016) at the Global Speakers Federation and Malaysian Association of Professional Speakers.

Jonathan centers his speaking and executive coaching work with organizations and senior executives to measurably improve their leadership effectiveness, mental resilience and business performance especially in the areas of Sales Performance, Mental Toughness, Service Quality, Leadership Communication and Team Development. He believes that "Increased self-awareness accelerates professional relations and business success”. Jonathan has more than 30 years of professional & international business experience in executive positions in the service industry and has worked with executives and their leadership teams throughout Asia and the Middle East. He has been consistently ranked within the Top 3 in GlobalGuru Hospitality for the last 5 years. Jonathan is also the international author of “Winning Clients' Loyalty - 7 Proven Practices to Convert Clients into Amazing Fans”  A Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), Professional Certified Coach (PCC) and one of Asia leading Sales & Service Optimiser & Leadership Success Coach, Jonathan has successfully delivered his high energy, fun and highly engaging keynotes or workshops to international participants. Jonathan is also a Certified Mental Toughness Coach & Facilitator, Six Seconds EQ  Advanced Trainer, Marshall Goldsmith SCC and a Global Canfield Methodology Trainer.You can connect with him at www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonathanLow or visit https://www.GlobalSuccessLearning.net 

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Inspire Group Asia CEO James McCulloch chats with global speaker and coach Jonathan Low about how the events we experience shape us as leaders, how to push yourself outside your comfort zone, why our mindset always matters, and the importance of the Mamba Mentality.   Feedback: Any feedback or ideas on how we can make this podcast better please let us know by emailing: info@inspiregroup.co.nz Connect to us online everywhere: https://www.inspiregroup.co.nz/ https://www.facebook.com/inspiregroupnz/ https://www.facebook.com/inspiregroupasia/ tps://www.linkedin.com/company/inspire-group https://www.linkedin.com/company/inspire-group-asia/ https://www.instagram.com/inspire_group/   Connect with James McCulloch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-mcculloch-65a2931b/  

Episode 87 in which Rachel Nemeth and Tom Canning are joined by Jonathan Low with missing fish and chip shops, pickled onion judging and where you'd build a road all up for discussion. Let prattle commence! If you like our new intro music, it's Real Life by Reading's own Twin Sun. More on them here.Visit our new podcast website here at realreadingpodcast.co.uk - Find us on social media. We're on Facebook, on Twitter and that Instagram. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Episode 80 in which Reading FC reporter Jonathan Low joins the team as Rachel Nemeth and Tom Canning discuss the Royals, and meet the team behind the town's newest brewery, Phantom Brewing Co. Let prattle commence! If you like our new intro music, it's Real Life by Reading's own Twin Sun. More on them here.Visit our new podcast website here at realreadingpodcast.co.uk - Find us on social media. We're on Facebook, on Twitter and that Instagram. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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In today's episode of The Speakers Life I talk with Jonathan Low, keynote speaker on sales success, service experience and leadership performance. Global Success Summit Jack Canfield Global Speakers Federation Sha Nacino Malaysian Association of Professional Speakers Joining a speakers association Human Resource Development Fund The training industry in Malaysia The training industry in Saudi Arabia Speaking in Singapore The follow-up process after you speak Buddying up with other speakers LinkedIn QR codes Business Card apps https://www.abbyybcr.com/en/ Gil Petersil Speaker Kit: Rode SmartLav mic, Tripod, Extension cable, Targus clicker   https://www.jonathanlow.net/ https://globalsuccesslearning.net   Artificial Intelligence Generated Transcript Below is a machine-generated transcript and therefore the transcript may contain errors. Hey, there's James Taylor here and I'm delighted to welcome Jonathan Low. Jonathan Low is a speaker and executive coach who works with organizations and senior executives to measurably improve their leadership effectiveness and business performance, especially in the areas of service quality, sales, performance, leadership, communication and team development. Jonathan has more than 25 years of professional and international business experience and executive positions in the service industry, and has worked with executives and leadership teams throughout Asia and the Middle East. He is a certified speaking professional CSP, one of Asia's leading sales and service, mastery and leadership success coaches, a certified coach with Marshall Goldsmith sec, and a certified global certified Canfield mythology trainer. He has lots of qualifications, this gentleman, he also has a new virtual summit is going to be happening very soon called the Global success summit that we're going to be learning about in just a moment. So first of all, Jonathan, welcome. Great to have you with us here today. Thank you, James. Thank you for having me in part of your program. So I was mentioning which is the end there this the global success summit. And you were just tell me before we came on, you've got one day coming up, you're doing 12 interviews in one day for for creating this new summit that you're doing with, with Shah and casino. So tell me first of all, tell me a little bit about this. This global success summit was about why we decided to create this summit. Well, you know, did the summit really came about because of you, you know, you you inspire others, you give us the opportunity to reach out and both shine myself. We are graduates of jack Canfield. So obviously the success principle. And because of that, we say hey, you know what, why don't we do something on the area of success. And let's explore things that we can do to you know, create better success for everyone in the world, whether they're speaker, whether they are entrepreneur, whether they're in a corporate environment. So we came up with Why don't have the global success summit, right. And we developed five different pillars. So they want us on the pillar of sales, second day is on customer service experience, 30 days on leadership, four days on communication, and 50 days on the power of digital marketing. So we thought, you know, these are elements of success that people will generally meet in their life. And we say, hey, great, and I'll let's do it. And yeah, my first on my summit coming up in August 26 to 30 years, so excited. So a lot of people I know where I deal with speakers, like yourself, my speakers, you program and, and the hear about doing online summits or virtual science, they get really excited because they see the possibility in terms of helping them position themselves and bringing more speaking gigs and other revenue streams. But the thing that often puts them off is the technology piece, they get worried they get little bit worried about I have to deal with the web pages. And now that I do that, so how are you finding the process? Because you don't come from a technology background? You come very much from a speaker, service leadership side. Yeah. So one thing I noticed was, you know, find people so Charlotte's actually done the online Fisher global summit. And I thought we have expertise in running dash you are probably have the backend already done. So I gave her a call and say, Hey, you know, share, you have done the backend, I'm pretty well connected to a lot of good friends globally, during my tenure as the global speakers Federation president of three years ago, and I say, Hey, why don't I just connect with the right people. And let's see how we can, you know, bring more global experts to share their expertise. And you know, I'll take care of the front end, and you work on the back end to support. So I think that's working out pretty well. And it's about collaboration, I like to say, you know, the back end really is like so much work. But you know, it's been a great ride, you know, and she was very comfortable in doing that she's got a great team supporting us. So that's a good balance. And collaboration is key, especially in the speaker's world, because we have caught respective talents, respective expertise, and just begin to focus on those. They talk about this idea about collaboration, you mentioned that you were the president of the global speakers Federation, which kind of sits I always think it kind of sits above all the the National Speakers associations are happening around the world as well. And everyone, I know this, this, take it on that that role is a very, it's been quite an intense job to have to do that, that role as well. But I know it's very rewarding for the people that do it as well. So what what were your key takeaways from being so deeply involved in the speaking into the association side of speaking? Well, actually, and I spent about 20 plus year in the hospitality business, you know, working different hotels around Asia Pacific. So I really come from a platform of service. And when my hotel Korea, you know, gave me an opportunity to become a professional trainer speaker, I learned it myself in this association in Malaysia, which is called the Malaysian association of professional speaker. And I serve, you know, ran into the premise of what can I do for you, you know, because of my hotel background, I kind of like this asset ruin, if there's anything I can be of service to you, how can I assist you? And never did I know, opportunity came and I was elected to be the president, then at the Malaysian association of professional speaker. And then after, when that finish, I open my mouth and say to the global in the global team and say, Hey, you know, I'm done with my Malaysian duties, is there anything I can be of service to the global speakers Federation, and, you know, I came in as a treasurer, I became the secretary. So I went through the whole different roles. But, and that was where I got the opportunity to become the first Malaysian the first Asian president of the global speakers Federation, a huge honor, lot of responsibility. But fantastic, rewarding experience of just, you know, learning from an individual perspective, from a speaker's perspective. And just from a service perspective to if anyone is watching or listening to this just now who is a speaker or aspiring speaker, but they're not a member of Speakers Association, what do you see the benefits of joining Speakers Association? Think the Speakers Association will give them a collective network of professional speakers who are really active. And sure, you know, there are a lot of great clubs, you know, they can help build your public speaking, competency like Toastmasters is fantastic clubs. My personal experience joining a professional speaking association is that you really have people who are actively involved in the business. And the member association is really there to help you to become better in doing your business, giving you new tools, giving you new insight, providing resources, that generally may not be available in a Toastmasters because there's just the speaking side of it, but also the side of building the business, which is very important. So you learn a lot of perspective, right? And with all this perspective that you gain, it's about what resonates with you, you know, some people like this large scale businesses, some are pretty happy with a smaller size business and are quite happy with it. And you get insights with a lot of opportunities, virtual assistants, so that the whole campaign. So sometimes, you know, when I first came into the business, I was really blown away, I went to an NSA convention, which is in the States. And I was like, wow, there's so much to learn. Read, where do I start? Am I ever even going to succeed in this business because it was so overwhelming. So So for me, it was the the the education perspective, that was great. But more importantly, was the people in it that made it really great. So something I didn't really realize, last time I was in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur that we were together, was just getting us a better feel on the speaking industry in Malaysia itself as a place to speak. And the thing I hadn't really realized was how big the training industry is in Malaysia. Now, I also know that it's gone through some difficult times recently, there's been a lot of changes in the speaking and the training side of the business. So we, I think it'd be useful for anyone that doesn't know that part of Asia. What are some key things that you find it but people coming in from outside and not from Malaysia, and they're looking at the speaking or the training industries in in Malaysia, that they can have to recognize that it's useful to know about? Well, current training is big, you know, in terms of the government, they actually set up a place that is called a p SME, or what we call the Human Resource Development Fund. So organization have to contribute a certain percentage of their revenue you set aside for training and development for their own team members in the company. So that fund is available. And if it's not utilized, it's going to be burning and everything. So which means it is going to be compulsory for organization to set people into training. Now they are slowly moving into coaching, allocation. Speaking, is somehow you know, a little bit in between, because speaking, keynotes, is usually one hour, one and a half hours. And so from the training perspective, they like to see more of the nine to five, you get some tangible skills take back as part of the deliverables. So this is where the focus of training has been much more, I would say, in Asia, unless you are a speaker is traveling around different region. So that's a little bit different. So primary, a lot of the people in Malaysia would be trainers, come speakers I started started as a trainer. Right? So So I still do, perhaps about 50% sound of my work currently is your workshop facilitation, two or three days, workshop facilitation, and speaking is about 20 to about 30% of my business mix. And if you do it also a lot of work in the Middle East, as well as in Asia and North America as well. What do you notice as you start to move around different countries different territory, there's that there's that blend change for you? Do you find that you're doing more keynote speaking and speaking in Middle East, for example, where Asia tends to be more on the training side, in the Middle East to, especially in Saudi is still a little bit more on the training side of it, that has got more engagement, in terms of the keynote is really events that happen, and it may select the destination. So primarily, the business is usually for people who are working there. And this is where you get a little bit more of the people who are resonates towards their. But I see more of like destination like Hong Kong, right? Singapore, which is very popular for North American companies that will have their annual conferences in Asia, you know, they will have it a perhaps Bangkok. And this is where a lot of the keynote speaking primarily in those cities. But the audience may not necessarily be from those countries. Yeah, I was amazed in Singapore, how, how, how many events conferences are going on there? You go to some of those. There's conference venues? And it's I don't know the exact numbers. But it all seems there's a lot of international speakers who use Singapore as their as their hub of places to go as well. Does that does that? Does that benefit you in Malaysia? Or is actually is that correct? Does that cause a bit of a challenge? Because you've got all this competition is just sitting over the board of it? Well, I see it a little bit different. Some people they will see it as competition, for me personally, is about what can I do better, to upscale myself, right, so that I'm in the same playing field. And I can be just as great as one of my peers in Singapore. Right. So I think, you know, bringing that level of playing few really helps one another. So it's not so much about a the internet to my pie. But we always believe in the speakers were the pie is big enough for everyone to have a slice of it. And we didn't speakers, we can do everything. And the thing is, you know, I like my James, you focus a lot on creativity. And for me, I do a lot of on sales and service. So you know, if things are creativity, I would probably say, Hey, you know, reach out to James Taylor, you know, he's one of the best in creativity and innovation. So we also cross reference, we cross support, because the conference organizers they may be engaging me for this year, but may not be the same speaker for next year. And this is where the opportunities, and when we see someone have spoken as a speaker, we are going to be more comfortable to promote or to recommend. So what one of the great benefit as a member of a professional speaker Association, when you get a chance to be there. Other people get to see you in action, too. So highly recommended for you to visit as many as possible. Yeah, I've recommended a lot of those, you know, when we've been united been together in Singapore or in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, we've seen speakers together and oh, I want to recommend her she's great, you know that she's got something you know, I know you have, you know, everyone has websites, and all those good things as well. But I should to see someone in, they can really do their thing on stage, it just makes you feel confident that the when you refer that person to a client, because maybe you've spoken there one year, and then they come back to you like just last week, I had three clients who I spoke for last normal 12 months ago, and maybe 10 months ago. Who came but James, can you recommend some speakers? These are the topics that with all themes for our conference. And I'm immediately going back in my mental Rolodex and thinking like to Oh, I see it seeing polio, who do they see in India in Chennai, it's an Oh, who's this great that Bureau, they'll be a great person to connect with them in that territory. So you talk a lot about services. And whenever I think of jobs, I always think of ServiceNow that's, that's what you're going to know and for that. So as you're with your part speaker, hat on and part service hat on, when you look at how other speakers are delivering a great service service excellence for the clients and for the audiences. Can you put me to some people you've seen do some speakers or do things recently, where you went? Actually, that's great. That's, that's an example of giving great service either to, to the client or to the audience. But it's a great question. So in terms of examples, I think a lot of the speakers in, for example, in APSS, to or even in the different member Association, what one thing that I like, is, you know, when when they actually finish an engagement, they follow through processes really good. And the sharing of the knowledge is a very powerful in terms of how they are developing the relationship and the sharing that openly amongst speaker, but with the client, I also see a lot of them doing pairing up opportunity. Now what is pairing up opportunities or parallel opportunities, you know, when you see, when you visit a speaker's bureau, you know, you go as a pair. So again, you may be a different discipline. And this is where you can actually support one another. I mean, if I were to say, Jonathan, Jonathan is really a great guy. It looks funny if I say about myself, but if I am there with you, James, I think you know what James James is an excellent speaker and interview via concert in James on at the end of you, James, you're there with me, and you speak about them. Me. So it's much more credibility. And I began to see more speakers buddying up to do that I did in a networking event, or when a going together to meet clients, potentially a lot of cross opportunities happening. And that was really giving service, you know, really not about thinking about the next transaction or the business. But how can we best give value to the customer? Because this is really a long term business. And industry is really small. Because everyone after a while pretty much know who is who, and if, and the same the speaker's bureau, right, because they also talk among themselves. And they also process they, you know, who is the recommended people, you know, that is going to be really reliable, who are the prima donnas kind of a day very difficult to work with, you know, we shy away from that or just make it easy for the customers to what we do, right? Whether it is a bureau whether it is because because that represented professionalism, and as member of the global speakers, Federation member Association. I mean, personally, for me, it is so good that people will speak highly of the member Association for professional members. And people say, Oh, you belong to a professional Singapore or you belong to match or you know, Australia. They'll say, Wow, they have got the quality of the speakers that you should highly consider. Yeah, that would be my aspiration. But essentially, that you just mentioned that about the buddying up. I think that's that's an interesting, I mean, obviously, you were with your, your online summit you're doing just now with a char. That's it. That's a form of buddying up. And you're actually I think there's something really powerful about I remember doing that with event professional sort of myself and a speaker from California, Aaron Gargan, as a great speaker on social media. And a lot of people commented about because it's so unusual to see, you know, you normally see the speakers out on their own and these kind of lone wolf characters, to see two people working together that well, that's, that's, that's an, especially if you get a nice, a good chemistry together, you know, either in person or whether you're, you know, you're filming together, for example, I think that could be really cool. But you actually got me thinking there about, about that. Solving the customers problems and helping them solve their problems. I'm often you mentioned, I speak about creativity. And, and I'm talking often more about generation of ideas, developing those ideas. I don't often focus so much on the what we call it more innovation processes, which is, you know, the standard operating procedures, different things about creating innovation, on what ongoing innovation processes in your business, right. But that's, maybe for example, we IO actually, maybe why should be doing is I should be connecting with some of those great innovation speakers are out there. And saying, why don't we buddy up together, and we'll go in and pitch on certain pieces together, or maybe even the stage before me, when on strategy I work I'm often brought in because they've done some companies some big strategy document into actually we need to be more creative. And that's why they will they'll bring me in and help work with them there. But maybe I need to be working with the person women before me who's focusing on helping develop the strategy and talking about strategy and companies or positioning guys, that is real value, right. And the beta customers get the whole spread from point A to point z. Yeah, so his journey, and that is really adding value, and you're giving them easy accessibility to the right speaker that can complement the whole experience of the conference, and people are looking for experience these days, you know, because the more engaged and more emotionally engaged in the conference, and that is really about the what what the speakers can actually bring about, then then the whole experience is much better, right? Rather than you have independent speakers, and they're probably focusing on the core expertise area, without really connecting the dots for the whole event. So that that's another opportunity, I feel. And you mentioned that you've seen a lot of speakers at do really well the follow up process, after you've come off stage. And you've done your as a speaker, you've done your thing, and they're very good at that follow up and helping to continue to continue that journey with the client or to continue to add value or to continue to follow up to look for new opportunities related to that, that gig, can you give me an example, as many speakers are yourself things that you do, just to ensure that you're, you're providing great value, and you're helping that, you know, client solve their their problem. So one of the things from my, the things that I'm currently doing is that give them accessibility to me. So I use the platform LinkedIn, pretty much a lot. And this is one platform that can really connect with me. So whoever I see in a conference, I have a large QR code. And there are some of the speakers already sharing this about connecting via QR code, putting onto the screen and people just a minute camera there and get connected with you immediately. So you have a connection, wishes very good for your follow up. And because you have that immediate, so he was speaking a conference for 100 or 200 people, within the time that you're there is relatively very difficult for you to reach out to so many. But with this opportunity, you can immediately follow up with them. And as part of the follow up, what I do is, I will always say thank you so much for being there. And at the same time, I will provide a videos for myself, because I do a lot of video sharing tips on what people can actually do. So send them a video and say, Hey, you know, I was just in Hong Kong speaking at a conference, and I did a video on, you know, three strategies on how to gain better commitment with your clients. So I hope you appreciate that. And if you like it, you can connect with my YouTube playlist. So adding all these additional things, which is not so much on the selling side of it, but just providing value, helping them to become better in whatever they're doing. And then remember you they will remember yourself. Yeah, so it is what what are some of the things that I do to follow up. So go to opportunity, if you're done a really good job, reach out to a couple of them to share some of their experience right in as part of the recommendation of how the conference has actually benefited them. So in your time in the past 20 years of speaking and training and speak about global speakers, Federation, and maps as well. you've attended a lot of events, I'm sure you've picked up been given a lot of business cards at that time as well. What have you found x I'm always I have these bags, every time I speak at event, I have a plastic Ziploc bag, each event. And obviously just put all the business cards in that event. And sometimes I've written on the back of them. And also I can process either at the airport lounge and go through them or when I get back back into the office. What do you do with all those those business cards? How do you have a process in terms of going through those to be able to know which ones you connect with? Well, I actually have an apps on my phone and the apps just trying to find the apps I'm using right now. But the FI gives me an opportunity to choose to scan the business card. So I'll have a business card and there it will lead me. He also asked me where do I want to fight which database? It gives me a chance to prioritize in different segment, Oh, I know what corporate whether it's speaker or whether it is you know what conference that I met that person. So it helps me to manage my folder a little bit. because like you said, You know, I use him bags and bags of cards. And after obviously, I'll get someone to get in. But that's someone never really happens. And after all that oh my gosh, discuss all like six months old. What do I do it? What do I do key it is to value. And the other thing is also because of the privacy factor is very stringent data protection. So I'll be cautious when we do emailing when it comes to that. But otherwise, you know, I try to get everyone to continue on social media, because I think that is safer platform that people can still communicate and work with you or find you on just have a relationship bill. So we will find the name of the app, I think I used one A while back called card Munch or card muncher or something which seemed to connect with LinkedIn. Mostly that's still available. But we'll get we'll get the name of the app that you you're talking about. And I was actually caught a abbyybcr business card reader. business card reader I surely guess yeah. But that's the apps. Yeah, yeah, that's great. So we'll put that link in there if anyone's interested in that as well. Because there is that thing when you go and speak in event you get so many business cards, I have to I've got such a terrible memory, I have to almost immediately write on the business card. I don't like writing and business card in front of someone. I think it's disrespectful. But as soon as I get to a quiet place, I'm immediately writing down all the notes from these business cards. But maybe that's a sense that you've got much more streamlined way of doing it. So definitely check that out. And just a couple days ago, we had the opportunities to I had an opportunity to interview Gil Gil Pepita, sir Yeah, and you know, he's called the networking mastermind and he was sharing some tips on how you know about how he collects the card and how he has caught p one p two p three p for and what he does with that. So that's going to be happening on the online global success summit. Right. So again, opportunities to learn from some of the great people who are practice you know, who actually did the masters of doing that? Well get Gail is amazing. So if anyone's watching this listening, and you want to know about Gil system, because he I mean, Gil works with Tony Robbins, he's an absolute master when it comes to networking, then you're going to want to sign up for that the password global success summit, so you can hear your Jonathan's interview with Gil and just start to finish up here. I always ask this question of any speakers I'm with I'm always intrigued about the gadgets and things that they carry with them. What's in your speaker bag? What do you carry with you to all those various speaking engagements, customer speakers by a mic, I have a mic and really go on road ROD. Right. And I'm always ready if there's opportunity to get a quick video or recording, especially in conferences that are spoken in. And if I know that a couple of people who resonate and they're really intrigued, I was just kind of asked them to share a couple of things that we should have found really useful. And what was really exciting about it, so always have that handy. And possibly for me, every city that I go to, I will also have a tripod ever ready so that I can do video recording. And use your phone to do the video recording you have like a separate cameras the iPhone, so I use the iPhone. And there are a couple of apps that supports that too. And the mic you're talking about is that the the road I think it's called the lab the lab smart lab one which you just connect on you put on a lovely Oh my god, yeah, I've got one there's they're great. And I think it's especially because I remember doing my my first few events and people ask that we'd love to give you a testimonial. And I would go at that with my phone. And it would give me testament I didn't they didn't have a mic on. And I've go back to try and look at the video. And I couldn't hear what they were saying because it was so loud in these conference recording. So that's that's a good tip. Just have one of those the road mics, one of those mines and also have another extension. Hmm, you know, it's always good, because sometimes people may be a little bit further. So when you have an extension, it gives you the opportunity that they a little bit further away. And you can get a little bit more of the background of the convention too. Because if not, it's going to be proximity is going to be just face to face at this distance. So if you have a longer Mike extension that connects much better. And what about things like clickers? Do you take you click it your own clicker on the road with you? Or do you just use whichever clicker you're given this? Yes, I do have my own, and I use one by Congress. That's fantastic. And then if people want to connect with you to learn more about Jonathan louder, the speaker and everything you're going going on there. And then also if they want to go and find out about global success summit, where the places that they should go to do that. If you want to connect with me, I have to website, I have a personal website that is triple w Jonathan Lau l o w.net. Or they can visit my company's website, which is triple W. Global success learning. net. So that's the company you want. That's great, fantastic. I also make sure that I have a we have a link here to the summit, as well. So people want to because I think this interview will be coming out just probably a few weeks just before the summit begins. So you'll be able to go in there. Learn all about that summit, as well. Jonathan, thank you so much for coming on today and sharing. You've a huge amount of experience in terms of speaking and the train business globally as well. So I always learned lots whenever we get a chance to hang out together and speak. So thank you so much for coming on. And also thank you for being a speaker. You remember, first of all, I had to ask how you how you enjoying being a speaker as you've ever been part of the community? Oh, it's fantastic. How about the speakers? You community? Yeah. Fantastic, fantastic. You know what one of the best investment I've really done, because of the value, especially I am just filled with gratitude about you know, the way you've been sharing the way you've been passionately helping speakers, the way you've grown your business, and you're Happily helping other speakers to do the same. And that's the wonderful thing about the speakers community. It's not about what I know. But what I know that I can help other people become more successful. When we see success in others, everyone becomes successful. So that's a great thing that you have done, James. So thank you so much for creating that and just sharing your wisdom, selflessly. Well, thank you for sharing your success and sharing what ways people can become more successful, whether their speakers, or anything, anything else they're doing in their life in business. I wish you all the best for the summit. Jonathan, I'm sure you're just going to do a phenomenal job. I can't wait to see when it comes out. Thanks so much for coming on. And sharing all your speakers like thank you so much for inviting me are the best James. How would you like to get paid to travel the world to share your message and expertise? How did it feel to get paid 5000 10,000 $25,000 to travel first class and stay in five star hotels in exotic locations. What I've just described is the lifestyle of international keynote speakers. 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Jonathan Low joins Rachel Nemeth and Tom Canning for the latest Real Reading Podcast. We learn where Tom has been, why Hugh isn't with us and there is an interview with Emile Belcourt from A2 Supplies - better known as the shop on Friar Street with the suit of armour in the window. Let prattle commence! Follow us on Twitter and Like us on Facebook. If you like our new intro music, it's Real Life by Reading's own Twin Sun. More on them here.If you enjoy the Real Reading Podcast, please remember to subscribe on your app and leave us a lovely review!If you know anyone who you think would be great to interview for the podcast please do let us know. The only prerequisite is that they must live or work in the the town and most importantly love Reading! For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Zsuzsi Lindsay - Reading Fringe Festival organiser is one of two guests this week as Reading FC reporter Jonathan Low joins us in a like for like substitution with Hugh Fort. Zsuzsi chats about the festival, how it started and became home to over a 100 shows. It starts on Tuesday 24th July through to Sunday 29th July. Elsewhere Jonathan inspires us with his walk to work and attempts to justify his bizarre hatred of Reading's Railway Station while Jennie talks through the Central Club sale and Tom is delighted by Reading Buses' word of the day. Don't forget our brand new Real Reading Podcast index. Let prattle commence! Follow us on Twitter and Like us on Facebook. All music by www.bensound.comIf you enjoy the Real Reading Podcast, please remember to subscribe on your app and leave us a lovely review!Show notes:12 shows you should definitely see at the Fringe: https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/12-shows-you-should-definitely-see-during-reading-fringe-festival-2018/Reading Fringe Festival website: https://readingfringefestival.co.uk/Central Club sale: https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/reading-council-sells-central-club-for-flats-but-loses-1m-to-save-mural/New Lyndhurst Pub menu: https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/reading-pub-cuts-opening-hours-and-launches-new-menu-to-tempt-diners-away-from-chain-restaurants/Inflatable obstacle course, World Yoga Festival and Shakespeare at the Abbey: https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/take-on-the-worlds-longest-inflatable-obstacle-course-in-reading-and-more-things-to-do-this-weekend/Podcast homepage: www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/tag/real-reading-podcastPodcast index: https://www.inyourarea.co.uk/news/rrpindex/ For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Jonathan Low worked 80 hours a week for two and a half years. Then his body collapsed and he began to doubt himself. It took him an entire year to recover and learn to change his perspective on what is success, how to fail and to be a happy person and to find gurus to inspire you.

Cardiff / Atmosphere at the MS / EPR3 / Transfers / Ipswich. Hosted by Paul Mann. Guest: Jonathan Low

Talking about all things RFC. Hosted by Paul Mann. Guests: Neill Rees, Jonathan Low

After graduating from Drexel University’s Music Industry Program, Jon Low got his start as the first intern at Miner Street Recordings, the studio where we produce Shaking Through. Over the years he’s grown into quite a respectable young engineer and producer, working on projects with The National’s Aaron Dessner, not to mention producing records for bands like Restorations, The Menzingers, Carroll and many, many more. Weathervane Music produces Shaking Through, a non-profit, community-produced documentary series about the vision and process of recording music. Download & Remix Tracks. Share your work with the Community. Go to www.weathervanemusic.org for more.