Arvind Narayanan
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So you can consider CAT scans, for instance, to be a form of AI to be able to reconstruct what's going on inside a person based on certain imaging. And now with generative AI as well, there's a lot of interest from the medical system in figuring out, can this be useful for diagnosis or for more mundane things like summarizing medical notes and so forth. So I think that work is really important.
So you can consider CAT scans, for instance, to be a form of AI to be able to reconstruct what's going on inside a person based on certain imaging. And now with generative AI as well, there's a lot of interest from the medical system in figuring out, can this be useful for diagnosis or for more mundane things like summarizing medical notes and so forth. So I think that work is really important.
I think that should continue. It still does leave us with the harder question of, you know, here in America, you know, if it takes me three weeks to get a GP appointment, it's very tempting to ask chat GPT a question about my symptoms. So what do we do about that? You know, is that can that actually be helpful with appropriate guardrails? Or should that be discouraged?
I think that should continue. It still does leave us with the harder question of, you know, here in America, you know, if it takes me three weeks to get a GP appointment, it's very tempting to ask chat GPT a question about my symptoms. So what do we do about that? You know, is that can that actually be helpful with appropriate guardrails? Or should that be discouraged?
I think that should continue. It still does leave us with the harder question of, you know, here in America, you know, if it takes me three weeks to get a GP appointment, it's very tempting to ask chat GPT a question about my symptoms. So what do we do about that? You know, is that can that actually be helpful with appropriate guardrails? Or should that be discouraged?
I don't know the answer to that.
I don't know the answer to that.
I don't know the answer to that.
I think there's different populations of students. There's a small subset of learners who are very self-motivated and will learn very well, even if there's no physical tutor. There are those kinds of learners at all different levels. And then there's the vast majority of learners for whom the social aspect of learning is really the most critical thing.
I think there's different populations of students. There's a small subset of learners who are very self-motivated and will learn very well, even if there's no physical tutor. There are those kinds of learners at all different levels. And then there's the vast majority of learners for whom the social aspect of learning is really the most critical thing.
I think there's different populations of students. There's a small subset of learners who are very self-motivated and will learn very well, even if there's no physical tutor. There are those kinds of learners at all different levels. And then there's the vast majority of learners for whom the social aspect of learning is really the most critical thing.
And if you take that away, they're just not going to be able to learn very well. And I think this is often forgotten, especially because in the AI developer community, there are a lot of these self-taught learners. I'm among them, right? I just paid zero attention throughout school and college and everything that I know literally is stuff that I taught myself. So I grew up in India.
And if you take that away, they're just not going to be able to learn very well. And I think this is often forgotten, especially because in the AI developer community, there are a lot of these self-taught learners. I'm among them, right? I just paid zero attention throughout school and college and everything that I know literally is stuff that I taught myself. So I grew up in India.
And if you take that away, they're just not going to be able to learn very well. And I think this is often forgotten, especially because in the AI developer community, there are a lot of these self-taught learners. I'm among them, right? I just paid zero attention throughout school and college and everything that I know literally is stuff that I taught myself. So I grew up in India.
The education system wasn't very great there. Our geography teacher thought that India was in the southern hemisphere. True story. Right. So again, I literally mean it when I say everything that I know I taught myself. And so, you know, you have a lot of AI developers who are thinking of themselves as the typical learner, and they're not.
The education system wasn't very great there. Our geography teacher thought that India was in the southern hemisphere. True story. Right. So again, I literally mean it when I say everything that I know I taught myself. And so, you know, you have a lot of AI developers who are thinking of themselves as the typical learner, and they're not.
The education system wasn't very great there. Our geography teacher thought that India was in the southern hemisphere. True story. Right. So again, I literally mean it when I say everything that I know I taught myself. And so, you know, you have a lot of AI developers who are thinking of themselves as the typical learner, and they're not.
And I think for someone like me, AI is on a daily basis, an incredible tool for learning. I use generative AI tools for learning. It's a new way of learning compared to a book or really anything else. You know, I can't summarize my understanding of my topic to a book and ask it if I'm right. These are things I can do with AI.
And I think for someone like me, AI is on a daily basis, an incredible tool for learning. I use generative AI tools for learning. It's a new way of learning compared to a book or really anything else. You know, I can't summarize my understanding of my topic to a book and ask it if I'm right. These are things I can do with AI.
And I think for someone like me, AI is on a daily basis, an incredible tool for learning. I use generative AI tools for learning. It's a new way of learning compared to a book or really anything else. You know, I can't summarize my understanding of my topic to a book and ask it if I'm right. These are things I can do with AI.