Eric Schmidt
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Well, the most important thing right now is don't put them anywhere near human life or mission-critical infrastructure. Don't use it to do hard operations. Don't use it to fly an airplane, those sorts of things. The systems today can best be understood as fantastic advisors. In my case, I had a complicated question. I used one of the LLMs and it sorted it out.
My complicated question had to do with what was the best and cheapest of the speakers I wanted to buy that had the highest of a particular tonal range. Something which I could do with Google by looking at all the documents, I had AI answer that question. And by the way, gave me the right answer and saved me. I could have done it, but I let the system do it for me. That's the next step.
My complicated question had to do with what was the best and cheapest of the speakers I wanted to buy that had the highest of a particular tonal range. Something which I could do with Google by looking at all the documents, I had AI answer that question. And by the way, gave me the right answer and saved me. I could have done it, but I let the system do it for me. That's the next step.
So the question is, at what point does the thing become to actually run my life? Like in the morning, I say, organize my life. Look at my schedule. I have to fit Joe, Bob and Harry in. Do you figure it out? And by the way, Harry, I don't like. And Joe, you should just sort of be mean to him. And I love, you know, whatever the way people actually work, the way they organize their lives.
So the question is, at what point does the thing become to actually run my life? Like in the morning, I say, organize my life. Look at my schedule. I have to fit Joe, Bob and Harry in. Do you figure it out? And by the way, Harry, I don't like. And Joe, you should just sort of be mean to him. And I love, you know, whatever the way people actually work, the way they organize their lives.
And we don't have that yet. But I think the agentic revolution, as it's called, is for sure going to happen. Governments are watching this so far. They're not doing anything too foolish, except that the Europeans who love to regulate are regulating it more than they should. And President Trump has indicated that he's going to scrap the minimal regulation that was in place under Biden.
And we don't have that yet. But I think the agentic revolution, as it's called, is for sure going to happen. Governments are watching this so far. They're not doing anything too foolish, except that the Europeans who love to regulate are regulating it more than they should. And President Trump has indicated that he's going to scrap the minimal regulation that was in place under Biden.
So I think it's going to be pretty open for a while. If you look at China, China, which obviously has an interest in not allowing, given their monopoly on power, they don't want threats. So China will undoubtedly have a rule that means you can do anything you want to as long as you don't threaten the state. which is sort of how their speech works.
So I think it's going to be pretty open for a while. If you look at China, China, which obviously has an interest in not allowing, given their monopoly on power, they don't want threats. So China will undoubtedly have a rule that means you can do anything you want to as long as you don't threaten the state. which is sort of how their speech works.
So I think everyone will adapt, but the race is on. One of the things that I want to say to you and your listeners is this race is very intense and it's happening very fast in the next few years. So get ready. I'm not sure that societies... If I can just be blunt, I just don't think our political system and societies are ready.
So I think everyone will adapt, but the race is on. One of the things that I want to say to you and your listeners is this race is very intense and it's happening very fast in the next few years. So get ready. I'm not sure that societies... If I can just be blunt, I just don't think our political system and societies are ready.
The concepts of governance are prehistoric compared to, and we ourselves are as analog devices, as humans, biological unions are prehistoric compared to what is possible with the technology.
The concepts of governance are prehistoric compared to, and we ourselves are as analog devices, as humans, biological unions are prehistoric compared to what is possible with the technology.
The question you're asking is known as the explainability problem. And today, the systems cannot explain why they know something. If you say, how do you know that? It doesn't have the ability to say, I learned it from Lynn or whatever. Because it learned it in complicated ways. There's a lot of progress on explainability, but it's not solved.
The question you're asking is known as the explainability problem. And today, the systems cannot explain why they know something. If you say, how do you know that? It doesn't have the ability to say, I learned it from Lynn or whatever. Because it learned it in complicated ways. There's a lot of progress on explainability, but it's not solved.
I personally think that the systems will be relatively explainable. One of the thought experiments is what happens when the system designs itself to be non-explainable. And my answer is pretty simple. If you can't figure out what it's doing, unplug it. Just unplug it and then think about it for a while.
I personally think that the systems will be relatively explainable. One of the thought experiments is what happens when the system designs itself to be non-explainable. And my answer is pretty simple. If you can't figure out what it's doing, unplug it. Just unplug it and then think about it for a while.
This is generally known as the proliferation problem, which he spent a lot of time on in the book. And the question here is, if there are 10 or 20 or 30 of these things in 10 years, they'll be regulated. The governments will have all sorts of rules. The Europeans will over-regulate. The Chinese will regulate in a Chinese way. The US will under-regulate, but they'll fundamentally be regulated.
This is generally known as the proliferation problem, which he spent a lot of time on in the book. And the question here is, if there are 10 or 20 or 30 of these things in 10 years, they'll be regulated. The governments will have all sorts of rules. The Europeans will over-regulate. The Chinese will regulate in a Chinese way. The US will under-regulate, but they'll fundamentally be regulated.
So what happens when an evil terrorist gets full access to one of these things? We need to prevent that. Now, one way that could occur is technically called exfiltration, where you take the model and you literally steal it and put it on a hard drive and then copy it, put it on the dark web. That would be really a bad thing.