You can now buy knowledge in a can.
Seriously.
It’s better than Heinz, SPC and Masterfoods combined.
If you like your intelligence with a little bit of left ideology, ChatGPT has something for you. The beans are plentiful and now available in Ultrafast – at only $500 per month.
Or if you’re looking for “the truth”, Grok can offer you Elon Musk beans and live NFL scores at a fraction of the price.
My advice: just don’t eat too many cans of Claude intelligence beans – you’ll think the world is ending… only to realise the company is about to IPO…
Siri intelligence beans taste worse than rotten tomatoes. But hey, at least they’ll keep your data private. Right?
Kimi and Muse are open weight – meaning, you can eat a lot of intelligence. But like your favourite weight loss drug, don’t be surprised if you start hallucinating and find yourself cutting grass with a scythe.
Finally, Gemini. What can we say about Gemini… given that its researchers invented the most important part of AI today, had already indexed the entire world’s information a million times over… and is one of the largest providers of computing in the world… if they don’t win shelf space – they can only blame themselves…
But seriously.
But seriously. Isn’t it incredible: for the price of a few cans of baked beans, you can access the greatest intelligence ever created – for a month.
And no matter which one you choose, you’ll have PhD-level intelligence in every field of study in your pocket.
Let’s all just pause and think about that.
It’s just… incredible.
However, AI is also scary as buggery.
First, our jobs.
If you can buy super intelligence in a can – and it doesn’t require 12% Super, sick days, annual leave, doesn’t complain and works 24 hours a day, why not do that?
Unfortunately, despite being the world’s largest per person user of Claude, Australia could be woefully underprepared for what comes next – because we’ve plowed all our money into property and Super – two extremely unproductive assets – and demonised people who attempt to create productivity and jobs for our society.
But, not all is lost!
Australians are resilient, and incredible. So once we realise how important it is to take risk and innovate, we’ll regain our productivity mojo. I’m sure of it.
Second, our brain cells.
Our ancestors grew from picking fruits, hunting with spears and worshiping spirits, to creating electricity, flying into space and connecting via invisible communications.
Throughout that period, every generation thought they invented sex. And all of their predecessors believed the next generation was doomed.
But at least they could see it coming.
Even the internet took 10 years to gain adoption in the US, and 30 years to penetrate deeply around the world. That gave people and businesses time to react and embrace change.
But AI is moving incredibly fast. In the first 10 months, we’ve gone from “AI? It drafts my emails.” To, “what the f$%k is happening to the world.”
In our most recent Rask Ultra group session, we learned about coding, basics of cybersecurity and computing… and then hooked up our computer terminal to Git and Cloudflare, with ChatGPT and deployed a modern website… in under 60 minutes.
A year ago, that was an entire business – employing a few people and would routinely take a few weeks.
Powerful? Yes.
Scary? Yup.
But here’s the real issue I see.
People either use AI as a powerlaw (they do what they’re already good at, but at 100x), or they use it as a crutch (to take shortcuts in learning and effort).
Then, of course there are those who have their head in the sand and spend their time thinking about other really meaningful stuff, such as:
a) doom-scrolling Zuckbook
b) bathing themselves in the latest church gossip
c) wiping the smudges from an android tablet as News24’s Peta Credlin whispers conspiracies, or
d) sending memes in the local footy chat.
In other words: wasting the biggest technological moment they’ll ever see in their life.
Sounds dramatic. Doesn’t it?
So let’s put it in context.
In one year we’ve had more than 10 major breakthroughs in AI – winners became losers overnight, new tools unlocked, thinking advanced and intuition multiplied.
With how fast AI innovation is tracking, starting 6 months later than your mate could be like learning what an iPhone is, 4 generations in. Or joining the “World Wide Web” in 2010 – 11 years after people stopped calling it that.
In other words, your best defence is offence. Go on the front foot and learn. Now.
Because as with every innovation before this, change doesn’t stop. With how fast it’s changing, getting on the front foot right now is the best way to increase your employability, creativity and opportunity for personal growth. People will seek you out.
And if you don’t do that, remember this: these tools are globally available. Meaning, people in the Middle East, Africa, China, Asia or Europe have access to these intelligence tools just like we do. The can of intelligence in Australia is the same can you get in Manila.
And they’re both phenomenal at translation, providing context and using technical tools to deliver value. So these cans of knowledge have the potential to level the playing field – globally.
For business owners, our AI in business report will help.
For individuals, start with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini and ask it to explain how they work. You don’t need to be technical – just use it.
If you want to take it to the next level, join us inside Ultra in 2027.
Onward & upward
