Mark Blyth
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard 3 Jul
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With the commoditization of those models and the appreciation that value can be built on top of them, does that not go back to what I said, though, which is really there is three to four core models which are financed by cash cow cloud businesses. You know, the obvious says Amazon, there's Google. And then for Facebook, there's obviously Instagram and News Feed.
And there are three large model providers which sit as the foundational model there. And then every bit of value is built on top of them.
If you were, as you said at the beginning about kind of your work on policy, you have US regulators and European regulators, what would you put forward as the most proactive and effective policy for US and European regulation around AI and models?
When I had Ethan Mollick on from Wharton, he was like, you know, the best thing to do actually is like a allow and watch a policy. He had a much more academic approach to it in terms of naming than that with, you know, wonderful principle from some ancient learning professor.
But he said essentially we should let everything flourish and then regulate from there rather than proactively regulate ahead of time, not knowing outcomes. Does that ring true to you?
Just on the verification side there, and kind of you said about the deep fakes, I think it was Syash said on Twitter recently with a great highlighting that the biggest danger of AI to him was actually not that we would believe fake news. It was that we would start to distrust and not believe real news.
How are you not skeptical that that's a real danger? We're a media company. We have amazing media people who use AI every day. We could create some terrible things with AI today, people would believe.
We could not have created Trump fakes with his voice declaring war on China. I could do a fake show with Trump today and release it and pretend that it's real and have him declare war on China.
Do we not see then in that world that actually a lot more value accrues to significant mainstream media outlets who are verified and have brand validity already?
Does that worry you? Like, I understand, but sadly, I don't think people are always as smart as we give them credit for. And when you look at the spread of misinformation, and when you look at the willingness to accept misinformation from large swathes of the population, A tweet with an AI-generated picture with whatever it could be in there can create such societal damage.
This is really worrying.
You said there about kind of confirming existing beliefs. Does that distinction matter though? Because actually you could have someone who is naturally, you know, we've had riots in the UK in recent, in the last few weeks.
And actually you could have AI generated images with many more migrants or many more rioters than there actually are with the incitement that you should join because this is happening. And the confirmation material, which is that AI-generated material, leads to action to take place. It doesn't actually matter. The point is it incites action.
So are social media companies, aka the distribution platforms, are they the arbiters of justice on what is a malicious AI image versus what isn't?
I feel like I worry more about this than you on the content misinformation side. And so I'm intrigued on the concerns that you have. What would you say is a more pressing concern for you?
One thing I think we're just so far off on, Arvind, is medical doctors. Everyone's like, you're going to have a GP in your pocket with AI. Are you high? GPs feel your elbow. They look at x-rays, look inside your ear and see very specific things. They look up your nose. You're not going to shove your smartphone up your nostril. You know, it can't feel your arm.
Can you help me understand why I'm wrong and why AI will revolutionize medical with a GP in everyone's pocket?
I'm glad that I'm not alone in my skepticism there. Because applied to education, again, everyone says it's amazing you have a tutor in your pocket. Yeah. We do also have your videos that we can watch at home. A tutor has personal relationships. It's one-to-one where I want to impress you of, and I have that personal desire to fulfill abilities, potentials that doesn't have.
How do you think AI impacts the future of education, one-on-one tuition, and that up-leveling of students?
Do you think people dramatically overestimate the fear of job replacement? We always see job replacement with any new technology and then it tends to create a lot more jobs than it previously were. Do you think that is the case here or do you think job replacement fears are justified?
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