Peter Norvig

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553 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 29 Apr

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Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha: Entrepreneurship and Self-Improvement Podcast · Peter Norvig: Transforming AI Into the Ultimate Human Advantage | Artificial Intelligence | AI Vault · 26 Dec 2025 podcast

And so there could be more of these smaller regional conflicts and more worries for civilians that get caught up in it.

So I'm worried about that as well.

And then, you know, like you said, the income inequality, I think, is a big issue.

So a big part of it is this opportunity for education.

That's where I spent some of my time, and I'm really interested in that now.

So I think that can make things better for everyone.

Just making everyone more powerful, more able to do their job, able to get a better job.

So that's exciting.

I think applications in healthcare are a great opportunity.

You know, I got involved a little bit in trying to have better digital health records, and that really didn't go so far, mostly because of bureaucracy and so on.

But I think we have the opportunity now to do a much better job, to invent new treatments and new drugs.

You've seen things like AlphaFold figures out, here's how every protein works.

And, you know, it used to be,

you could get a phd for figuring out how one protein worked and alpha foes said i did them all so i think this will lead to drug discovery lead to healthier lives longevity and so on so that's a really exciting application

Yeah, I think that's always true, right?

If it's a powerful technology, it can do good or bad, especially if there are good and bad people trying to harness that way.

And some of it is intentional bad uses, and some of it is unintentional, right?

Internal combustion engines did amazing things in terms of distributing food worldwide and making that be available, making transportation be available.

But there are also these unintended side effects of pollution and global warming and maybe some bad effects on the structure of cities and so on.

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