Harnessing the Limitless Potential of Machine Learning with Co-Founder of Genie AI, Rafie Faruq #50
Rafie Faruq is a Co-Founder of Genie AI, and with so far left to go on his journey it’s a spectacle to observe his outlook on life & business, which is truly brimming with wisdom.
Genie AI’s use of machine learning to open source the law has a monumental number of use cases, and Rafie’s grown the company with pace and force without losing that initial spark.
Join us for a conversation that challenges perceptions of success, documents the power of machine learning & AI, and rouses us to take control of our lives.
Lee and Rafie discuss:
The ever-relevant learnings from ancient spiritual teachings
Basics of Machine Learning and the sheer potential it can unlock
Rafie’s moral compass around giving, and how it informs his decisions
Why seeking success is actually counterintuitive to leading a content life
Genie AI’s huge range of use cases in disrupting the legal world
Links & references
Lee Cooper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leecooperrecruiter/
Rafie Faruq: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rfaruq/
Genie AI: www.linkedin.com/company/genie-ai/
Get in touch: lee@extrology.com
Episode highlights:
“The career favours specialists, and social life favours generalists. If you're at the dinner table, you want to cover lots of topics. But in the workplace, you generally need people who can deliver along a certain value flow and direction and just nail that and become experts in that.” - 7:10 - Rafie Faruq
“If you can find information and books that have stood 2,000 years of time, then it's got to be worth something, right? Yeah. Whereas you can't test that so easily with modern books.” - 11:30 - Rafie Faruq
“What's really exciting, or scary depending on your viewpoint, is that not only are these Machine Learning models accurate, but they're really flexible in terms of what they can do.” - 18:15 - Rafie Faruq
“I feel like there's a culture, especially in London, where it's quite masculine, and it's like, ‘Let's work harder, work till you drop, don’t sleep, keep going’. I realised that that is nonsense, basically.” - 21:45 - Rafie Faruq
“Whichever way you decide to live, do it consciously and go with force. If you're going to stick with the traditional career, embrace it, and support your family, that’s fantastic. If you're going to leave that or try not to worry about it, go with force, commit, and see what comes out on the other side.” - 30:05 - Rafie Faruq
“We need lawyers to figure out what to do with drone law, crypto law, AI law etc. What we don’t need them for is the day-to-day contractual work which we can automate for a fraction of the cost.” - 35:50 - Rafie Faruq
“A fractal starts with the smallest possible piece, then you basically replicate that outwards into a pattern. So in the same way, if you can replicate that small piece, pattern-wise across your organisation, then you're replicating the magic, as opposed to sprawling outwards and losing the initial spark.” - 39:25 - Rafie Faruq
“You don’t have to achieve anything. If anything you need to strip things away and find who you are, not try to acquire more things.” - 41:30 - Rafie Faruq
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