FateTell: The One Thing AI Can't Change | EP02

https://unplanned.live/ep02In an era when AI is changing everything, Levy Cheng built a company around the one thing it can't: the human desire to understand your own fate.Levy Cheng is the founder of FateTell, a consumer AI app combining large language models with Chinese fate-reading (命理), targeting overseas markets. He's also spent ten years practicing Zen meditation. In a world of sprint-and-pivot AI founders, he's one of the stillest people we've met.In this conversation:→ Why he's been waiting since 2017 for reasoning models to make AI fortune-telling accurate→ The "millennial need" thesis: fate-reading as universal and ancient as food and shelter→ How Bazi (八字) is actually just ancient observational astronomy — the same underlying logic as Western astrology→ The "car and road" metaphor: destiny vs. fate, autopilot vs. steering→ Why AlphaGo is the right analogy for what happens when AI meets traditional masters→ Chinese cultural export: from Black Myth: Wukong to Li Ziqi to FateTell→ Three things FateTell will never build→ Live Jiaobeï divination throw at the end — will FateTell become a unicorn?hosted by Tongtong Chan and Clara Jiang.