TED Tech The AI revolution is underhyped | Eric Schmidt
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Sep 12, 2025 
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt discusses the often underappreciated AI revolution. He highlights the impressive breakthroughs in non-human intelligence and their vast implications for various industries. Schmidt addresses the urgent challenges and ethical concerns surrounding AI, especially in balancing safety and individual freedoms. He envisions a future transformed by AI in healthcare and education, advocating for adaptation as vital for staying relevant in this rapidly evolving landscape.
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AI Creativity Began With AlphaGo
- AlphaGo revealed AIs can invent moves humans never thought of, signaling a new class of algorithmic creativity.
- That moment began a shift toward systems that can plan and produce novel strategies across domains.
From Language Models To Planning Agents
- Recent progress moved AI from language generation to planning and multi-step reasoning capabilities.
- Schmidt predicts networks of specialized agents will run business processes and communicate in language.
Energy And Data Are Hard Limits
- Computation and energy are real bottlenecks for advanced AI, possibly requiring massive new power capacity.
- We will also need generated data as public data exhaust runs out to continue training larger models.
