Yoshua Bengio

And what would that mean for society?

And it's so different from anything we have in the present that it's

There's a barrier.

There's a human bias that we tend to see the future more or less like the present is, or we may be like a little bit different, but we have a mental block about the possibility that it could be extremely different.

One other thing that helps is go back to your own self five or 10 years ago.

Talk to your own self five or 10 years ago.

Show yourself from the past what your phone can do.

I think your own self would say, wow, this must be science fiction.

You know, you're kidding me.

We have to do this imagination exercise that's necessary.

And we have to realize still there's a lot of uncertainty.

Things could turn out well.

Maybe there are some reasons why we are stuck.

We can't improve those AI systems in a couple of years.

But the trend...

You know, it hasn't stopped, by the way, over the summer or anything.

We see different kinds of innovations that continue pushing the capabilities of these systems up and up.

How old are your children?

They're in their early 30s.

But my emotional turning point was with my grandson.