A few weeks ago, I saw that Kobi had sent me a few messages on Telegram. Kobi is a close collaborator of mine, we work on many projects together. He sometimes joins me on the ZK Podcast as a co-host, he is a co-founder of ZKValidator, co-creator of ZK Hack and is one of the best engineers I know. His first message simply read “I’m sorry…”
He went on to send me the link to something he had just built called zkpod.ai. “I created a program that processes all the ZK podcast transcripts. It allows you to ask a question and then generates the answer. Try it out” he wrote. I opened it up and put in the question “What is the cryptography underlying Bulletproofs?” Clicking on the audio answer option, I was shocked. I was hearing my own voice giving a detailed technical answer!
Every week on the ZK podcast, I interview really brilliant people, mathematicians, engineers and thinkers. They share their wealth of knowledge with our listeners. But I myself am the interviewer, the perpetual student, and I am far from the expert on the topics we cover
Now though, I very much sounded like one of the experts. This felt surreal! Had I (or the AI version of me) just answered succinctly and clearly with incredible detail a question I probably wouldn’t have been able to spontaneously answer myself? Crazy!
This smarter, sharper voice twin had just blasted past me intellectually.