1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,251 There is a 2 00:00:01,251 --> 00:00:04,921 pretty big percentage of people that are now using AI to write their email. 3 00:00:05,755 --> 00:00:09,426 I built a script that read through my inbox. 4 00:00:11,344 --> 00:00:15,473 And then accidentally, I had, without the human in the loop, 5 00:00:15,473 --> 00:00:17,183 created a feedback and sent about 6 00:00:28,319 --> 00:00:29,988 So on the scale of 7 00:00:35,994 --> 00:00:36,745 You know, 8 00:00:36,745 --> 00:00:39,289 I'm like, in the middle. I'm a pragmatist. 9 00:00:39,289 --> 00:00:40,957 I'm actually less concerned at the moment 10 00:00:40,957 --> 00:00:44,878 about artificial intelligence and more about the sudden explosion 11 00:00:44,878 --> 00:00:47,589 of a lot of people are exhibiting 12 00:00:49,257 --> 00:00:51,092 and that should give you pause. 13 00:00:51,092 --> 00:00:55,346 We're no longer questioning people when they speak with this great authority. 14 00:00:55,346 --> 00:00:57,307 It also means that we are belittling 15 00:00:57,307 --> 00:01:01,311 technology that does actually have a pretty significant chance 16 00:01:01,311 --> 00:01:04,856 of fundamentally altering what it means to be a human on this planet. 17 00:01:07,609 --> 00:01:08,526 I talk a lot about 18 00:01:09,903 --> 00:01:13,156 we start to use something and it becomes a crutch we can't function without 19 00:01:16,493 --> 00:01:17,577 with another human being? 20 00:01:17,577 --> 00:01:19,370 I mean, if you think about it, on the face of it, 21 00:01:19,370 --> 00:01:21,748 this is a really ridiculous thing that we all do. 22 00:01:21,748 --> 00:01:23,291 The reason is 23 00:01:23,291 --> 00:01:27,378 because that's a good way to distill concepts, to have a conversation. 24 00:01:27,378 --> 00:01:31,216 Now, once you use artificial intelligence as an intermediary 25 00:01:31,216 --> 00:01:34,427 and you're asking that system to do that, distilling for you. 26 00:01:34,427 --> 00:01:38,890 You've not had to do that yourself. And that is actually a skill. 27 00:09:10,341 --> 00:09:11,175 within the next 28 00:09:11,175 --> 00:09:14,387 year, a gentle AI morphs into just agents, 29 00:09:14,387 --> 00:09:17,848 and we will start talking about agents that can do things for us. 30 00:09:17,848 --> 00:09:21,310 We will have one or more agents that are acting on our behalf, 31 00:09:21,352 --> 00:09:24,355 and that will seem novel and cool at first. 32 00:09:24,689 --> 00:09:28,901 Those agents start behaving in ways that we not only didn't anticipate, 33 00:09:28,901 --> 00:09:31,904 but possibly can't tolerate. 34 00:12:07,309 --> 00:12:09,645 So everybody has forgotten this now. 35 00:12:09,645 --> 00:12:14,650 But in 2012, there was a little research project 36 00:12:14,650 --> 00:12:19,905 where somebody taught artificial intelligence to recognize a cat. 37 00:12:19,905 --> 00:12:23,451 And the way this happened was by ingesting 38 00:12:23,492 --> 00:12:27,830 many, many, many thousands of hours cat videos on YouTube. 39 00:12:27,872 --> 00:12:33,169 It was 2012, and it was heralded as an enormous achievement, a huge benchmark. 40 00:12:33,169 --> 00:12:36,964 we're now talking about the robots coming to take all of our jobs 41 00:12:36,964 --> 00:12:38,549 and then murder us in our sleep. 42 00:12:38,549 --> 00:12:41,844 And people are serious about this. 43 00:13:33,354 --> 00:13:34,855 I wrote a 44 00:13:34,855 --> 00:13:39,068 book and it was about the nine businesses that I thought 45 00:13:39,109 --> 00:13:41,195 were at the epicenter of artificial intelligence. 46 00:13:41,195 --> 00:13:42,988 This was in 2018. 47 00:13:42,988 --> 00:13:47,243 The book has three scenarios about what the world might look like in this world, 48 00:13:47,243 --> 00:13:48,786 where AI had become 49 00:13:48,786 --> 00:13:52,206 sort of a center, in the US, it was the wild west of capitalism. 50 00:13:52,206 --> 00:13:55,751 In China, it was state controlled everything. 51 00:13:55,918 --> 00:13:58,921 And a lot of what I wrote about turned out to happen. 52 00:13:59,129 --> 00:14:04,510 And nobody read that book and thought, this is a great vision of the future. 53 00:14:04,718 --> 00:14:08,097 It was, you know, the sort of gut punches that I wrote 54 00:14:08,097 --> 00:14:11,267 that book as a warning, not as a playbook.