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- [Ian] In the past year,
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artificial intelligence
has captured our imagination
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like never before
and like nothing else.
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It's transformed everything
from how we work,
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to how we perceive
the world around us,
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to increasingly
who we are as people.
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And with this technological
renaissance,
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there are very few names
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that stand out as prominently
as Mustafa Suleyman.
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He has a career
that's deeply rooted in AI.
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He's been at the forefront
of this field
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for well over a decade,
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co-founding DeepMind
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and playing a critical role
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in its mission
to solve intelligence
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and to use it
to make the world a better place.
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And today,
we're sitting down with Mustafa
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to discuss
both the exciting potential of AI,
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as well as concerns
about the future of AI.
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Mustafa, thank you for joining us.
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Mustafa, you've been working
on artificial intelligence
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for almost 20 years now, right?
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So what's happened
that has made this
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such an omnipresent thing
in all of our lives?
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- [Mustafa] Well,
for much of that time,
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like you said,
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I've been among a small group
of very fringe AI researchers
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who mostly have been considered
to be a little bit crazy.
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Back in 2010,
when I first started DeepMind,
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most people who heard
that I was working on AI
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thought that I was really
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nothing to do
with mainstream culture,
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a weirdo futurist,
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and working on something
that was very speculative.
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So for as long as I can remember,
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we've been an outsider.
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And in the last few years,
I would say,
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it's grown
in the popular imagination.
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I think a lot of that started
several years back with AlphaGo,
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which was an AI that we designed
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to play the ancient Chinese
board game of Go,
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which is played
on a 19 x 19 square grid.
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- It's a lot more complicated
than chess, absolutely.
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- Yeah. It was
the next big frontier for AI
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after IBM beat the game of chess
with Deep Blue back in 1997,
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and obviously, as everyone knows,
that's on an 8 x 8 grid,
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and the pieces can only move
in very fixed ways,
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whereas on a 19 x 19 grid,
not only is it that much larger,
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but all the pieces are equal.
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There's just black
and white stones,
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and you can place them
anywhere on the grid.
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So the number of possible moves
that can happen in the board game
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are just exponentially larger,
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something like 10^170 possible
configurations of the board.
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That is more atoms than there are
in the known universe.
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So it's a 10 with 170 zeros
next to it, after it.
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It's just an incredibly insane
possible number of configurations.
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So all the traditional methods
of rule-based search,
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where you would say, "If there are
some pieces in this area,
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then don't place them there,
but place them adjacent" --
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which is traditionally how people
trained AIs to play chess --
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those methods didn't work
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because the size of the space
was just so huge.
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So we had to invent
these learning methods,
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and over the years,
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we've applied
those learning methods
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to other domains.
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We started off with games,
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then moved into image recognition,
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then moved
into audio transcription,
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so you can write down
the words that I say phonetically.
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And then,
in the last couple of years,
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coming back to your question
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of why things have gone crazy
in the last year or so,
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is because we've actually
been able to apply
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a similar suite of methods --
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deep learning --
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to generate new text
that is unique, right?
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And that's the incredible thing
that has happened here.
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We've gone from classification --
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so understanding
the content of images,
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understanding that two languages
translate in the following way,
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understanding the content
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of a piece of text
or a paragraph --
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to then being able to generate
a new example of that paragraph,
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or a new image,
or some new speech or music
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at human-level performance.
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A lot of these AIs now
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are pretty much as good
as most humans
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at being creative
or answering questions.
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- So nowadays,
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we can have a conversation
with an AI bot,
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and we can't really tell
the difference
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between it and another human being.
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That's a fair point, right?
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- Yeah. That is one
of the surreal moments
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that we live in.
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When you talk to one of these AIs,
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like ChatGPT,
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or my own company,
Inflection, for example,
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makes an AI called Pi,
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p-i, which stands for
"personal intelligence."
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When you talk to Pi,
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it's just like chatting
to a regular human.
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You can actually phone Pi,
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and it will speak to you
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in a very fluent, smooth,
conversational voice.
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It has empathy.
It has emotional intelligence.
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And yeah, in many respects,
it's just like talking to a human.
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And so many people would say
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that we have nearly passed
the famous Turing test,
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which was proposed
back in the 1950s
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by this great computer scientist
and mathematician
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called Alan Turing,
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who said that if you could design
a computer
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to speak to another human,
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and it would be impossible to tell
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whether it was actually a computer
or a human speaking,
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then we could say that that AI
or that computer system
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was intelligent
and it had passed the Turing test.
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And now, we're pretty much
at that moment, I think.
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It's still possible to tell,
if you really pay attention
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or if the conversation
goes on long enough.
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But if it's only just two or three
or five turns of conversation --
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it's very difficult to tell.
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And that's an amazing moment.
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- It's not that the AI
is intelligent.
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It's just that we perceive it
to be intelligent.
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In reality,
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it's just taking all of this data
and pattern recognition,
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and it's predicting things
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on the basis of the prompt
that we write in, right?
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It's a program
at the end of the day.
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It's not thinking.
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- Well, it's interesting,
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because with every new technology,
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we're forced to reconsider
our basic assumptions.
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So we thought we had a good grasp
of what intelligence is
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because it was compared
to passing the Turing test.
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Whereas now we've passed
the Turing test,
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people are like,
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"Well, maybe it's not
that intelligent after all," right?
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So maybe it wasn't
a very good test.
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And that is the process of science,
is that we posit a hypothesis,
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we develop some experiments
to test that hypothesis,
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and then, we review the evidence,
and we generate a new test.
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And so today,
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we have to generate a new test,
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because it's pretty clear
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that these things
are not really intelligent,
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even though they're very capable.
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So I've proposed a new test,
a modern Turing test,
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which actually evaluates
what an AI can do,
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not just what it can say.
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So I think
a better measure of an AI
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is an artificial
capable intelligence,
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an ACI.
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So what can this thing do
in the labor market?
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What jobs can it do?
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Can it write emails?
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Can it negotiate contracts?
Can it invent new products?
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Can it market and promote a product
and persuade people to buy it?
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And if it can do
all of those things
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and do it in a way
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that enables it to make
a profit on a product --
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that's like a mini entrepreneur.
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It's like a little startup person.
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And I think that over the next
three or four years,
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there will be AIs that can do
all those things I've described
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and actually turn a real profit
from a new product.
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And that'll be a watershed moment,
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because that's many of the skills
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that a lot of people use
in their day-to-day jobs.
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- So I want to get to the future,
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but let's start with the present
just for a moment.
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For young people today
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that are hearing
about artificial intelligence,
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as so many of us are,
for the first time,
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if they're curious,
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what should they be doing
with artificial intelligence?
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How should a person start engaging
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in a way that will be constructive
and useful for their future?
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- Well, the first thing to say
is that these AIs
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have all of the knowledge
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that has been put
on the open internet.
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So they're actually
extremely smart.
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Not only have they been trained
on Wikipedia many, many times over,
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but they've read
millions of blog posts,
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millions of news articles,
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many books, in many cases,
that are available on the open web,
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and so, they're very knowledgeable.
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So the first thing to do
is just talk to one.
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Pick a topic
that you are really interested in,
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maybe one that you know
something about,
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and try to test the limits
of the AI's knowledge
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by probing it, and questioning it,
and going back and forth.
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I'm sure many people
have already tried them out.
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And I think, you know,
give Pi a go.
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It's really
an incredible experience.
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And once you play around with it
a little bit,
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you realize A) the magic
and how impressive it is,
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but B) where it trips up.
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Sometimes it goes in circles.
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Sometimes it doesn't remember
things correctly.
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And that gives you an intuition
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for where the cutting edge
is today,
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where it's weak
and where it's strong.
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And then, I would say,
if you're really interested,
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is try and prompt one of these AIs.
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Try and give it a stylistic guide.
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Try and get it to talk
in the style of President Obama,
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or one of your favorite
celebrities, or Shakespeare.
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And invent something with it,
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treat it as an aide,
a creative brainstorming partner,
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and then you can see, again,
what the shape of it is.
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And if you want to go even further,
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many of these models
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are available
in open-source software,
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and you can have a go
at trying to program one of them.
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- And what's something
that you could program
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an AI today to do
that would be interesting?
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You could program it, for example,
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to be an expert
in Formula One racing
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and talk to you
in the style of Shakespeare,
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if you like.
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It can embody
the character and persona
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of anything that you can imagine,
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and take advantage
of the depth of knowledge
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that it has been trained on.
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So it might be an expert
in talking about cactuses.
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It might know everything
about Harley Davidsons.
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It might know
all about the dinosaurs.
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Anything that you can think of,
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it is going to be able to imitate
that knowledge
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in a particular style.
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And so, the world is your oyster.
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You can create game characters.
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You can create little aides,
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or assistants, or friends
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to play with or to talk to,
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fiction that you can
co-write together --
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you write part of the story,
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the AI writes
the other part of the story.
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So, it's really limitless
what can be done with these things.
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- You and I are great optimists
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on how much AI is doing
and where this technology is going.
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But we're also very well aware
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that with all
of these opportunities
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to program AI
to do incredible things,
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if you want to program it
to do bad things,
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you probably can.
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And you can use it
to learn and promote information,
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but you can use it
to promote disinformation,
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and to fake people,
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and to get people
to believe things that aren't true.
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What do we need to do
to limit the potential
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for AI to be used in ways
that are dangerous for our society?
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- Well, one of the things is that,
at the moment,
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many of the AI services
are available
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through large,
established providers,
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and those providers
have all committed
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to responsible
and ethical principles.
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And it's incumbent on all of us
to hold those providers to account
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based on what they've said --
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so about not spreading
misinformation,
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not spreading
factually untrue content,
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and crucially, I think,
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not imitating
a known public figure.
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Because what we don't want
is to have a bunch of AIs
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where in the future
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it will be impossible
to tell whether a celebrity,
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or a politician,
or a business person
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had in fact given a message,
or said something,
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made a recording,
issued a statement,
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but in fact,
it was actually a deep fake,
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it was a made-up piece of content.
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And at the moment,
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most of the big providers
of these AIs are very responsible
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and take lots of efforts
to prevent those kinds of things.
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I think, in the future,
these models are going to be
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increasingly available
in open source,
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and so that's going to get harder
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to contain and to moderate.
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- And when you say in open source,
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you mean
you're not going to just get it
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from Meta, or Google,
or Microsoft, or Inflection,
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that you could get it
just like on the open web.
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And then the rules are
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whatever the rules happen to be
for that provider.
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- Yeah. And I think
that's going to become
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more and more a challenge
of the open Internet,
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is, where are
the boundaries of that,
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and how does it get restricted?
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Because you're going to be able
to take this software
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and run your own AI
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independent of any big provider
in five years' time.
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Today, you can run them
in the open source,
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and they're pretty good,
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but in the future,
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they're going to be
really, really good.
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So we just have to think
about the right way to make sure
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that we have stable
and peaceful outcomes
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and that the transition
to this new AI future
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doesn't happen too quickly
and isn't too chaotic,
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because, as we've seen in the past,
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sometimes there can be
unintended consequences.
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- Now, we aren't yet at the point
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that we would use an AI
to be our lawyer.
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We might use it to help our lawyer,
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but we wouldn't use it to be it,
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or to be our teacher,
or to be our nurse.
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But it sounds like,
in very short periods of time,
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you believe that AI
is going to be able to replace
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a lot of these functions.
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Take us a little bit
along that path.
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Not all the way yet,
but just like the next year or two.
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Because we keep seeing
all of these new announcements,
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and you said,
"Well, AI can generate text,
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and it can sound
like a human being."
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Yeah. You can have
a conversation with it.
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Well, now we see AI
can generate images,
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and there are images
that are more impressive
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than almost any artist
or graphic design.
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Now we see, just recently,
AI can generate video
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and can generate a movie
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that you would see
in Hollywood, maybe,
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or really close.
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What's coming next?
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What do we see
in the next year or two
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that's going to blow our minds
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that we're going to start
using everywhere?
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- I think that the reality is
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that over the next two
to three years,
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we are going to be surrounded
by a new species of digital people.
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We have wrestled
with different metaphors
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for describing
this new technology era
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for many decades,
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and none of them seem to be
sufficient or up to the task.
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Some people have compared AI
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to another general-purpose
technology like electricity.
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General purpose
because it's like a raw commodity
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that enables
many, many other technologies,
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and products, and services
to be built on top of it.
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Who could think of living
in a modern world today
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without electricity?
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Going back even further,
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the printing press was an earlier
general-purpose technology
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because it enabled anybody
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to broadcast their ideas,
and organize, and plan, and so on.
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So many meta capabilities arose
because of that platform.
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- Or the Internet. Same thing.
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- Or indeed the Internet.
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That's another good example
of a general-purpose technology.
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But today, it's hard to say that AI
is a general-purpose technology.
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It certainly is,
but that's not all it is.
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It is interactive.
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It produces new
and dynamically emergent content
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in a personalized way,
uniquely to you at every moment.
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That is very different
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to the very predictable nature
of electricity, for example.
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The actual infrastructure
of the Internet
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was very stable and predictable.
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We know exactly
how many packets can be sent
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across a certain wire
of a certain speed
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at a certain time.
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Whereas here,
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this is like a completely
new design material.
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No two answers
to the same question
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will be the same.
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Every interaction
is very different.
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And now that these interactions
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are becoming completely dynamic --
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you say something,
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the AI says something,
you say something --
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it's actually
much more like talking
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to a full digital person.
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So in two or three years' time,
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there will be an avatar
that will be a human-like
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or other kind
of character representation
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that is very animated
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and just like you or I
speaking to one another now.
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As you say, it will be able
to generate video in real time
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completely seamlessly
on your phone,
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on your desktop,
on your tablet, in your car.
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And so, rather than browsing
a web page,
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today, when you go
to look for information,
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you type a query into Google,
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and you get a static web page
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that was probably made
two years ago,
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or maybe even some cases,
five years ago.
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And that's like a billboard.
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It's a static representation
that doesn't change.
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And it certainly doesn't change
to adapt to you or me.
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It's just we both see
the same thing.
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You type in a website.
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We both see
exactly the same thing,
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regardless of the time of day,
or the location,
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or back history,
or what we're interested in.
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In the future,
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content is going to be served
to every individual
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in a completely personalized
and interactive way.
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So your web page
of images, and text, and video
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is going to unfurl itself
on the fly,
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completely novel,
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adapted to your interests
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and what you've talked about
previously with your AI.
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And that's just
a completely different paradigm
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that I think people
are not quite yet grasping.
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- Mustafa, when you say
"digital people,"
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what do you mean by that?
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- Well, if you think about it,
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what makes a person a person
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is my ability
to speak to you right now,
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my ability to see what you see,
and my ability to take actions,
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so buy things, book things,
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plan, arrange, coordinate,
write emails, make phone calls.
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At some point
in the next few years,
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an AI is going to be able to do
all of those things
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pretty much as well as a human.
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But of course,
it won't be a human.
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It will be a digital person.
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And I think that's probably
the best metaphor
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to help us understand what's coming
over the next few years.
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- What does it mean
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as we move into an environment
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where so many of the interactions
that we will have
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will be with digital people,
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as opposed to people people?
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How do you think
that changes the economy?
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How does it change society?
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How does it change government?
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What are some of your thoughts
about that?
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- Well, one of the amazing things
about these digital people
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is that they can actually be made
to be very controlled.
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You can actually design
very precise behaviors.
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And so, for example,
in the AI that we've made, Pi,
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it is very kind and empathetic.
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It's very supportive.
It's very encouraging.
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It's infinitely patient.
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It doesn't judge you.
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And so many of the downsides
of human interaction,
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where you might feel
socially anxious,
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you might feel a bit paranoid
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about what the other person's
thinking,
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you might feel pushed around.
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Or you might feel
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that that other person
didn't hear you out.
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You were telling a story
about your ski trip,
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and suddenly, they're talking
about their ski trip
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that they had last year,
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and you're like, "Wait,
but I haven't finished my thought."
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Your AI doesn't do that to you.
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Your AI is infinitely patient
and supportive.
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And so, there's a huge amount
of upside there,
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but it's also
a big transition, right?
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Because I think, increasingly,
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people will choose
to spend time with their AIs,
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perhaps more than they spend
time with other humans.
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And so one
of the design considerations
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that we have to factor in,
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and we think about a lot
at Inflection,
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is to really pay attention
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to the values of the AI
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and how we condition
and shape the AI,
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for example, to encourage you
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to spend more time
with your loved ones,
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to encourage you to be brave,
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and overcome your social anxiety
and go to the party,
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to provide you with a safe space
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to practice for your interview
or your exam,
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but still have you focused
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on being out in the real world,
connected,
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having experiences
with other humans.
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And so, every single discipline,
every single area of society
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is going to have to grapple
with this new reality
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that there will in fact
be digital people
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that are as significant
and as important
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as every other relationship
in our lives.
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It would be impossible
to consider today
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not having a smartphone
in your life or a laptop.
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That's just become second nature
in less than a decade.
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- Yes.
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- Six billion people have
a smartphone now or more.
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And so, that's probably
the trajectory we're on
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for these personal intelligences.
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This is the natural evolution
of technology
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from personal computing
to personal intelligence.
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- And I think people
will be relieved to hear you say
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that you find it important
that the values of these AI people
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that you are developing,
that you're inventing,
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needs to be humane
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and needs to keep people
engaging with other people.
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Of course,
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you and I can both imagine
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that there are going to be
lots of corporations
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that want to maximize profitability
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and therefore ensure that people
are engaging with their AI
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as much as humanly possible,
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just as some companies do
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with their smartphones
or their applications,
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just as sometimes you want to sell
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as much food
as you possibly can to a person,
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so even if it means
that they're obese.
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All of these things.
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And I wonder, do you think that --
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How do we guard
against the excesses
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that comes from a technology
that is changing so much faster
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than our ability to understand it,
train with it, prepare for it?
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We're going to be mostly
the people we are right now,
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and these things are suddenly
just going to be "poof!" around us.
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It's not like we can train people
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to, like, "Okay, you've got to grow
into becoming an adult,
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and here's what it is."
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It's just going to be there.
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- Well, look, I think that
we are making incredible progress
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as a civilization,
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including on the corporation front.
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Society is changing much faster
than I think people fully realize.
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If you roll back to the 50s,
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and the kinds of companies
that we had,
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and the kind of way
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that they would externalize
their downsides --
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whether it was dumping chemicals
into the river
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or really mistreating their staff
in horrible ways --
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I think that it's inconceivable
that we would have companies
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that are really pushing smoking
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in the way that they did
back in the day,
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or really pushing
obesity and fatty foods.
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We're really, I think,
making a march forward,
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and look,
it's not a solved problem.
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Fundamentally,
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companies are constantly
in a battle
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to try to be more responsible
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and to be more considerate
and respectful of their people.
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All I can say is that,
for my part, at Inflection,
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we've tried to structure
the company
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in a way that we proactively think
about those consequences,
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and we're actually
registered legally
-
as a public benefit corporation.
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- Oh, okay.
-
But now, let's go maybe
five years in the future --
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not ten, not twenty, just five --
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where we are already
starting to see
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AI that is able to do
a lot of the jobs
-
that people have today,
-
that young people are thinking
about having in the future.
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How should someone
considering their career
-
adapt to a future of AI
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that is so explosive,
so transformative,
-
and so near-term,
-
so much uncertainty
about what society will look like,
-
more than ever
in the history of human beings?
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How do young people
think differently
-
about preparing themselves
for the future?
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- Well, the cool thing about it
is that more so than ever before,
-
these technologies are accessible
and programmable
-
by people who don't have
technical skills.
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So you don't have to be
a professional engineer
-
to be able to play
with an AI model.
-
You can prompt it
using your own language
-
with your own ideas.
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That means that you can bring
all your creativity
-
and all of your inventiveness
-
to an off-the-shelf AI model
very, very easily.
-
So that's the first thing
I would say is, "Don't be afraid
-
because people think
-
that there's a big
technical barrier to get over" --
-
that's not true anymore.
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Secondly,
-
there's clearly a huge benefit
to people who come from outside
-
of software engineering
and technical fields
-
actually playing with these things.
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So we need
more wide-ranging voices,
-
people with different backgrounds
-
grabbing hold of this stuff
and making new things with it,
-
because all perspectives
are needed at this time.
-
This is a massive transition,
-
just like the arrival
of the Internet
-
or the arrival of light.
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Can you imagine what it was like
-
for the people who first
saw a light bulb turn on
-
and saw the power of electricity?
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That sparked a revolution
in people inventing things,
-
in microelectronics,
-
and in myriad ways to make
our lives more comfortable.
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So think of this as a creative
and exciting moment
-
to be an inventor
and to use these tools
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to basically make
our dreams come true.
-
This is a great moment.
-
- Well, let me ask,
-
all of these transformations
also create disruptions.
-
Some of those disruptions
are super opportunities.
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Some of them are more challenging
if you're not ready.
-
Give us a couple of jobs
-
that you think people
shouldn't actually want to get into
-
in the next five or ten years --
-
because they're not going
to be around with AI --
-
and why.
-
- Well, any new technology
disrupts certain jobs, right?
-
So, it's pretty clear
-
that call center operators,
for example,
-
who manage
customer service requests
-
or even who do sales,
for example --
-
there are going to be AIs
-
that try to do that
more efficiently,
-
and we're already seeing
those kinds of things,
-
so I'd be worried
about those kinds of jobs.
-
I think that the most valuable
skill sets
-
are going to be those
that straddle creative skills,
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as well as problem-solving
and technical.
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So breadth is
more important than ever.
-
That's one of the things that AIs
don't do so well
-
is integrate a wide range
of different skills
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into a single source.
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So I would say be bold
-
and do multidisciplinary
educational courses
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that teach you the best of both.
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- So Mustafa, this is a technology
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that will improve
human capabilities
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to anyone that has them.
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It'll lead to faster inventions,
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reduced waste,
more efficiency in every field.
-
As you say, it's more than just
a transformative technology.
-
It also changes how we think
about the entire world and society.
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I'm wondering,
-
for young people today,
-
who might think about having 50,
60, 70 more years on the planet,
-
how do you think
about their future?
-
Will they even be recognizable
as human beings
-
when they're adults?
-
Do you think they'll have
limitless lifespan?
-
When I think about applying
artificial intelligence to medicine
-
and to biotechnology, and genetics,
-
it really does seem staggering
-
how much the world could change
-
from what we can
even imagine today.
-
- I think that's true.
-
Technology and the scientific
process of invention
-
is there to reduce our suffering.
-
It's there to make our lives
more peaceful and more enjoyable.
-
Just a few hundred years ago,
-
the average life expectancy
was closer to 50 years old.
-
So science has massively advanced
our well-being and health
-
because we've invented drugs,
-
and we've found ways
to get more crops, for example,
-
out of the same square hectare.
-
I think that is
an incredible achievement
-
of creativity and invention.
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And we're about to take
that engine of creativity,
-
which was our human intelligence,
-
and turn that into a commodity.
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We're going to make it
widely available
-
to millions of people
-
to be able to be creative
and inventive.
-
So I think you're totally right.
-
By 2050, I wouldn't be surprised
-
if there were people
who were being born
-
that might live
for 200 to 300 years,
-
as we are going to make
very fundamental breakthroughs
-
in medical science
-
that tackle aging,
that cure disease.
-
And so that raises the question,
-
"Well, what do we do
with our lives?
-
How do we live?
-
If a large chunk of people
-
are not working for their income
for most of the day,
-
then how do we find
meaning and purpose?"
-
And people often ask me
this question,
-
and I actually think,
-
"Well, remember
when you were young,
-
and you had hobbies, and passions,
and ambitions, and desires,
-
and you were obsessed
with things? --
-
that creativity and playfulness
-
is increasingly going to be
available to adults
-
and people of all ages."
-
Because, I think,
in the long-term future,
-
the real challenge for us
is figuring out
-
how we support people
when they don't work
-
and maybe give them
a universal basic income,
-
so that for at least
a portion of their week,
-
they're freed up
from the everyday grind of work
-
to take care of their families,
to look after the elderly,
-
to be more involved
in bringing up children,
-
to support community service,
-
to be creative.
-
I think that's
an important thing to remember.
-
We didn't create society
-
in order to artificially invent
jobs and work for the sake of it.
-
We work so that we can play, right?
-
And so the goal is to reduce
-
the amount of work
that we are forced to do
-
and increase the amount of time
that we have for play
-
and for chosen work.
-
You may choose
to still work super hard --
-
that could be a choice.
-
It could be very productive.
-
It could be very creative
and inventive.
-
But I think
that's a much better society
-
that we want to live in,
-
where most people,
most of the time,
-
are choosing how to spend
most of their week.
-
- Yeah. And it feels
like the pandemic
-
has in some ways helped us think
about that transition, right?
-
You already have people who say,
"You know what?
-
I don't want to be in the office
from nine to five every day
-
with a one-hour commute both ways.
-
I actually want to spend
more time with my family,
-
spend more time
with my friends, with my pets,
-
engage more,
-
live in a place
that I'm happy living."
-
It turns out that the pandemic
-
and the technology that came
from distance engagement,
-
Zoom calls, all the rest,
-
technology facilitated
more independence of choice
-
for people all over the world
to live the way they want to live
-
and balance their lives
with what they do for a living.
-
And artificial intelligence
just turbocharges that.
-
Is that the way
you're thinking about this?
-
- Yeah. I think that we got
a good taster of prioritization
-
during the pandemic,
-
and in fact, that's actually
a really interesting point
-
because it shows you
-
how many unquestioned assumptions
are actually buried
-
underneath the structure
of society.
-
Who would have thought
-
that we could actually work
entirely remote
-
and be pretty productive?
-
It's not that it was
without consequences,
-
but the world carried on,
-
and there are actually
huge benefits now
-
to working part-time
-
and not being five days
in the office.
-
Huge, huge benefits.
-
So I think that --
-
Who would have thought
that actually that was something
-
that we could re-engineer
in terms of society?
-
So I'm very interested
in this question.
-
What are the other things
that we take for granted today?
-
What are the silly rules?
-
What are the silly social habits,
-
and customs, and practices,
and structures
-
that just are because they were
-
that we could re-engineer,
and turn upside down,
-
and make them more favorable
-
to every single one of us
as individuals?
-
- And it turned out
we could re-engineer it immediately
-
because we had to,
because the pandemic forced it.
-
It didn't take years.
It took weeks.
-
It took weeks, and people showed
-
they could actually work
completely differently.
-
I can think of a few things
that could be re-engineered
-
by a society that didn't
have to work for wealth.
-
Gender bias, right?
-
Racism. Nationalism.
-
A world where people
-
can actually live
the way they want to --
-
and not just a few people,
-
but anyone that has access
to these technologies --
-
will be a world
where people choose
-
not to be discriminated against
to a much greater degree,
-
because they don't have to play
those power games
-
that society forces upon them
-
because that's the way
it's been done
-
for generations and generations.
-
- Yeah. And I agree.
-
I think one of the other things
that is coming down the line
-
that is going to change that
-
is the ability to generate
power, electricity,
-
in a decentralized way.
-
If we really do get
a battery breakthrough
-
in the next 20 years
-
such that renewables --
-
I guess primarily solar,
but also wind --
-
can be generated
very far away from cities
-
and stored,
and can carry you through --
-
that's going to completely change
the way that cities operate,
-
and it's going to change
-
how much emphasis we put
on living close to one another
-
or in existing cities
and urban areas.
-
So there's lots of those
technological breakthroughs
-
which I think are cooking away
in the background
-
which will completely change
the social structure
-
that we are currently so used to.
-
- Mustafa Suleyman,
thanks so much for joining.
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- [Narrator] And for our viewers,
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if you're intrigued
by the possibilities of AI
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and you want to dive deeper
into this fascinating world,
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we invite you to check out
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