In the last episode of this podcast, I described some of the significant ways that AI will usher in a new period of human development that I call The Great Acceleration. I focused on the acceleration of cognitive capacity of the human brain as described by Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, as well as the way we experience time, energy, and, of course, knowledge. I also introduced the acceleration of technology development, not just for AI but for completely new technologies, including and enabled by quantum computing, which will work synergistically with AI. The larger truth is that AI will catalyze a great acceleration in virtually any aspect of human life and development. I’m Joe Kornowski.

Now, one of the most interesting accelerations to me will be in spiritual growth and development. And today, I’m excited to announce the official launch of my new book, “Accelerating Spiritual Growth with AI Chatbots.”

This is the first part of a special two-part episode about what I call the great acceleration of our time. What exactly is accelerating? And why is that important? Several things are accelerating: one is knowledge, another is time, a third is energy, and a fourth is our cognitive brain capacity. So, let me break this down.

Recently, Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, sat down for an interview with Fareed Zakaria. Jensen is being called the Godfather of AI because his company pivoted several years ago from making GPUs for gaming to developing GPUs for AI. A GPU, or Graphics Processing Unit, replaces what are known as CPUs, or Central Processing Units, semiconductor chips. CPUs powered the internet. GPUs are powering AI because they are faster and optimized for performing many simple tasks simultaneously, making them ideal for both image processing and machine learning, the heart of AI.

That is as technical as I will get here. The point is that Jensen is a true visionary—some say he is the Da Vinci of our time. He saw what he had and how to utilize it to transform technology in our time. And the so-called hyperscaler companies in technology—Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google—are investing many billions of dollars in developing their AI capabilities, as this is a race. Okay, so that’s another acceleration. The time between the release of the first AI chatbot and the “winner-take-all” race to create the best AI capability will be a fraction of the time it took for the early search engines of the web, the internet, to consolidate down to just one dominant provider, Google.

The initial consumer-facing availability of AI for everyday purposes takes the form of these various so-called chatbots. As the name implies, they are conversational machine learning tools that generate and share knowledge. And the way they work leverages everyone’s skill with legacy search, like Google.

The critical thing to know here is that this change from search to artificial intelligence knowledge generation and reasoning is happening right now, and you can tap into it with any of the major consumer-facing chatbots like xAI’s Grok, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Anthropic’s Claud, or Google’s own AI chatbot, Gemini. And

I’m going to pound the table here. If you want to have any mastery of skills necessary to navigate what comes next, in technology, in our culture, in your professional life, you MUST begin NOW to learn how to optimize AI in your everyday life.

This is a special episode of the More Wave Less Particle podcast. This morning, I awoke to a text letting me know that my last remaining aunt, my mother’s younger sister, passed away overnight. As I poured my first coffee, I turned on CNN to watch the latest reports on the war between Israel and Iran now on the precipice of catastrophic escalation. I felt more powerless than I’ve felt in a long time. Then I realized that I’m not helpless.

Recently, I’ve been finding new and interesting ways to use AI chatbots in my life to help me solve real problems for me, as well as family and friends. As I clutched my coffee mug and gathered myself a short while ago, I realized that I could use this moment to enlist the help of an AI chatbot to see if I could make things better, safer, calmer from a spiritual perspective. In a prior podcast episode, I explained how AI chatbots could be used as a spiritual advisor in times of need. I felt today was such a time. Also, I wanted to do something to honor my late aunt and all she had done to support me growing up.

I’ve been working most with x.AI’s Grok 3 chatbot recently, so I quickly created a prompt to see if Grok could show me how I could provide spiritual support for world peace today.