There is a
pretty big percentage of people that are now using AI to write their email.
I built a script that read through my inbox.
And then accidentally, I had, without the human in the loop,
created a feedback and sent about
So on the scale of
You know,
I'm like, in the middle. I'm a pragmatist.
I'm actually less concerned at the moment
about artificial intelligence and more about the sudden explosion
of a lot of people are exhibiting
and that should give you pause.
We're no longer questioning people when they speak with this great authority.
It also means that we are belittling
technology that does actually have a pretty significant chance
of fundamentally altering what it means to be a human on this planet.
I talk a lot about
we start to use something and it becomes a crutch we can't function without
with another human being?
I mean, if you think about it, on the face of it,
this is a really ridiculous thing that we all do.
The reason is
because that's a good way to distill concepts, to have a conversation.
Now, once you use artificial intelligence as an intermediary
and you're asking that system to do that, distilling for you.
You've not had to do that yourself. And that is actually a skill.
within the next
year, a gentle AI morphs into just agents,
and we will start talking about agents that can do things for us.
We will have one or more agents that are acting on our behalf,
and that will seem novel and cool at first.
Those agents start behaving in ways that we not only didn't anticipate,
but possibly can't tolerate.
So everybody has forgotten this now.
But in 2012, there was a little research project
where somebody taught artificial intelligence to recognize a cat.
And the way this happened was by ingesting
many, many, many thousands of hours cat videos on YouTube.
It was 2012, and it was heralded as an enormous achievement, a huge benchmark.
we're now talking about the robots coming to take all of our jobs
and then murder us in our sleep.
And people are serious about this.
I wrote a
book and it was about the nine businesses that I thought
were at the epicenter of artificial intelligence.
This was in 2018.
The book has three scenarios about what the world might look like in this world,
where AI had become
sort of a center, in the US, it was the wild west of capitalism.
In China, it was state controlled everything.
And a lot of what I wrote about turned out to happen.
And nobody read that book and thought, this is a great vision of the future.
It was, you know, the sort of gut punches that I wrote
that book as a warning, not as a playbook.