What's next for generative AI? Three pioneers on their Eureka moments
Feb 15, 2024
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Three AI pioneers discuss the past, present, and future of transformative technology. They explore generative AI advancements, its impact on professions like medicine, and concerns about misuse. The podcast delves into AI testing criteria, entrepreneurial potential, and the evolution of AI towards human-like intelligence. They also touch on open source platforms for cultural diversity, challenges of deepfakes, and the importance of industry collaboration.
Generative AI can revolutionize healthcare by reducing administrative tasks, allowing more time for patient care.
Ethical AI governance is crucial to prevent misuse in influencing public discourse during elections.
Deep dives
The Future of AI Technology
AI pioneers discuss the advancements in AI technology that will revolutionize how systems understand the physical world, remember information, reason, and plan. These future AI systems are predicted to be much smarter with widespread applications that are hard to predict. The eureka moment for these experts was seeing machines fluently create content like human language, showcasing the potential of generative AI.
Transformative Uses of Generative AI
Generative AI is highlighted for its potential to boost productivity in various fields. For example, it could revolutionize the healthcare industry by reducing the time doctors spend on administrative tasks, leading to more time for patient care. However, there are concerns about the misuse of AI technology in influencing public discourse during elections, emphasizing the need for ethical AI governance.
AI Progress and Ethical Challenges
Experts anticipate the evolution of AI systems to understand the physical world, a significant leap beyond current capabilities. Challenges lie in teaching AI common sense through physical interaction, a domain where machines currently lag behind humans. The necessity of open-source AI platforms to preserve cultural diversity and combat misuse by bad actors is acknowledged, along with the ongoing quest to address ethical issues like deepfakes and misinformation.
"This is going to be the most transformational moment, not just in technology, but in culture and politics of all of our lifetimes."
Three AI pioneers, all of them in Time's Top-100 most influential people in AI, share their views on the past, present and future of this transformational technology.
Guests:
Aidan Gomez, Co-Founder and CEO, Cohere
Mustafa Suleyman, Co-Founder and CEO, Inflection AI
Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist, Meta
World Economic Forum's AI Governance Alliance: wef.ch/AIGA