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Speaker 2: Let's stick with tech. The impact of generative AI under
Speaker 2: scrutiny as some investors question massive capex spending in the space.
Speaker 2: Read Halfman, the co founder of Malice AI and author
Speaker 2: of Superagency What could possibly go Right with our AI Future?
Speaker 2: Joined us now read It's good to see you. I
Speaker 2: said as you walked into the room. There's a book
Speaker 2: I need to read What Could Go Right? Because I'm
Speaker 2: very worried about what things could go wrong. Let's put
Speaker 2: it that way. You in the book approach something really
Speaker 2: important as we make these technological revolutions, these advancements over
Speaker 2: human history. Actually it benefits human agency, and I'm worried
Speaker 2: that maybe with AI it guys in a different direction.
Speaker 2: Help me out and tell me why it could go right.
Speaker 3: Well, the shorting answer is it gives you superpowers, right,
Speaker 3: and it gives you superpowers across a large number of things.
Speaker 3: Everyone should go try Chat, GPT, Inflections, Pie and Trapicsquad.
Speaker 3: Give it a try. You can find what should I
Speaker 3: make for dinner? How do I get medical advice that's
Speaker 3: available to me? How I am I to have a
Speaker 3: difficult conversation with a colleague, you know, how might I
Speaker 3: actually do things in parenting that might be different? You know,
Speaker 3: all of those things are are our superpowers that we get.
Speaker 2: And each run. Lisa under the bus, I am, do
Speaker 2: you want to share with the audience what you do?
Speaker 4: You can manipulate what your kids look at if you
Speaker 4: send them links to things that then change their algorithms
Speaker 4: that then give them more news feeds in their in
Speaker 4: their feed. I mean there are ways that you can
Speaker 4: kind of play the system a little bit.
Speaker 1: And I think that that's proper.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. And by the way it helps them learn,
Speaker 3: it gets some news about the environment around them. I mean,
Speaker 3: this is one of the things that is if you're
Speaker 3: not actually in fact using these AI agents to learn
Speaker 3: right now, you should. And like, for example, one of
Speaker 3: the ways that I do when I approach a difficult subject,
Speaker 3: say for example, quantum computing, I stick a technical paper
Speaker 3: in and I say, explain this to me like I'm
Speaker 3: twelve superpowers superpowers.
Speaker 2: Yes, okay, So my next question is going to be
Speaker 2: how should we participate and how we shake this intelligence?
Speaker 2: And Lisa has given us one idea, could you give
Speaker 2: us another time?
Speaker 3: Well, I think part of the key thing is my
Speaker 3: very first chapter is about chat GBT, where humanity enters
Speaker 3: the chat. You got hundreds of millions of people who
Speaker 3: are interacting with it, and the company watches what works
Speaker 3: and what doesn't work and then improves it. So by
Speaker 3: simply going and experimenting and getting which kind of things
Speaker 3: are the things that help you elevate your agency, then
Speaker 3: actually in fact helps the company know, oh, these things
Speaker 3: really work, Oh these things need to be improved.
Speaker 1: At the same time, you talk about technical papers, and
Speaker 1: one thing that AI does really well is work with
Speaker 1: technical details, not so much, the social not so much.
Speaker 1: When you have to have certain biases that are baked
Speaker 1: into some of these algorithms, what are the limitations to
Speaker 1: this in sort of broad raised application at a time
Speaker 1: where people are saying this could do qualitative jobs and
Speaker 1: there could potentially be a lot of biases baked in.
Speaker 3: So every major group is working intensely on biases. And actually,
Speaker 3: one of the things that we did with inflection and
Speaker 3: PIE personal intelligence PUN intended was to teach it to
Speaker 3: be kind and empathetic, to have EQ as important as IQ.
Speaker 3: And actually you see that now in anthropics Claude and
Speaker 3: other things is it's kind of spreading, and so you
Speaker 3: can actually have these kinds of interactions be trained in them,
Speaker 3: and this is kind of reinforcement learning by human feedback
Speaker 3: to actually be much better than your average human.
Speaker 1: The reason why I find this so fascinating is because
Speaker 1: I think about my children and what careers they potentially
Speaker 1: could have, and I'm like, no, not programmer, because that's
Speaker 1: going to be dead. You know, all of these other ones.
Speaker 1: Probably if you can be empathetic human, those human skills
Speaker 1: are probably going to be more needed. That's what people say.
Speaker 1: Are you saying those two are going to go out
Speaker 1: the waydo?
Speaker 2: I mean?
Speaker 1: What is this due to employment?
Speaker 3: So first, I actually think programming skill jobs aren't going
Speaker 3: out the door. I think there's human application, but I
Speaker 3: think it's also human application of like EQ as well.
Speaker 3: So the fact that you have a for example, say
Speaker 3: a medical assistant that can help you with something, or
Speaker 3: a coach that might be able to talk with something,
Speaker 3: doesn't mean you don't want a human coach. It's more
Speaker 3: coaches the better, right, and being able to make it work.
Speaker 5: You're talking about AI for the good, but what about
Speaker 5: AI in the hands of adversaries?
Speaker 3: Well, so superpowers superpowers for terrorists, superpowers for criminals, superpowers
Speaker 3: for rogues states. That's one of the things that we
Speaker 3: need to be careful about how we navigate. Once again,
Speaker 3: all of the major groups actually have security groups that
Speaker 3: are working on this to try to make sure and
Speaker 3: that's I think part of the having call so called
Speaker 3: red teaming plans and kind of trying to make sure
Speaker 3: that that's as minimized as much as possible.
Speaker 5: How do think the US government should be approaching this?
Speaker 5: The market's freaked out because of deep seek and how
Speaker 5: much potentially the CCP is putting money into their version
Speaker 5: of AI. But when you're in China and you want
Speaker 5: to look at things on deep seek that are particularly
Speaker 5: critical to the CCP, it will not show you. So
Speaker 5: how does the US government go about this?
Speaker 3: Well, So I think it's important that the US government
Speaker 3: kind of continues some of the threads that the previous
Speaker 3: executive order did, which is you have red teaming things
Speaker 3: that you actually do world leadership about what kind of
Speaker 3: things are happening. I mean, there's connections in the UK
Speaker 3: AI Safety and Suit and the US one and the
Speaker 3: French one, and I think these are important to do.
Speaker 3: But I think that this is one of the things
Speaker 3: where there will be multiple AIS and part of the
Speaker 3: reason why I want AI not to just be artificial
Speaker 3: intelligence or amplification intelligence, but also American intelligence as part
Speaker 3: of what we're doing.
Speaker 5: What do you make then, of the tech industry being
Speaker 5: very close to this administration. I'm not just talking about
Speaker 5: your former front Elon Musk. I was at the White
Speaker 5: House yesterday and Bill Gates was walking into the West
Speaker 5: wing for meetings. Do you think they can help the
Speaker 5: administration basically get to there faster when it comes to
Speaker 5: safe AI?
Speaker 3: In the short absolutely, I think it's if you said,
Speaker 3: of any kind of Western democracy government the world, most especially,
Speaker 3: of course, you know, American presidency, American government, should they
Speaker 3: be connected with the tech industry talking about how tech
Speaker 3: creating the future? What are the things that we can
Speaker 3: do to make better American industry, better American society, better
Speaker 3: lives for American citizens? The short answer is absolutely.
Speaker 2: What you make in the back lash against Dale Musk
Speaker 2: more recently about he's in film from the government, well.
Speaker 3: In government, the move fast and break things maybe should
Speaker 3: be you know, a little bit more compassionate and judicious.
Speaker 2: Is that what you think the apprice should be.
Speaker 3: I think that the question should be is trying to say, hey, look,
Speaker 3: there's a reason government doesn't work like companies, even though
Speaker 3: I think there's efficiency that's really good and we need
Speaker 3: to respect those reasons too.
Speaker 5: Do you feel that you're going to basically get some
Speaker 5: sort of repudiation because of where your politics were ahead
Speaker 5: of this election and given how Trump has basically cosied
Speaker 5: up to a lot of individuals in the tech world.
Speaker 5: I have not seen you yet at mar Lago in
Speaker 5: inauguration or walking into the West wag.
Speaker 3: Look, I think the thing that we most want as
Speaker 3: American citizens is for our government to succeed, to succeed
Speaker 3: for our industry, succeed for our citizens, And so that's
Speaker 3: what I most want, and I think we all do.
Speaker 1: You have been an incredible investor. You are an early
Speaker 1: investor in open Ai, You invested in LinkedIn, just so
Speaker 1: many of the behemoths currently. Do you see a lot
Speaker 1: of upstarts right now that look like they could become
Speaker 1: the next big thing in some of this machine learning technology?
Speaker 3: So the short answer is yes, although picking them is
Speaker 3: one of the difficult things about being a venture capitalist,
Speaker 3: and there's a lot of different options. Back a few
Speaker 3: years ago, I was arguing that we were five large
Speaker 3: tech companies heading to ten. But I wouldn't necessarily have
Speaker 3: predicted that Nvidio would have so quickly become one of those,
Speaker 3: you know, into the seven and then going to ten.
Speaker 3: And so I think that's we are in that progress.
Speaker 3: And I think there are a number of startups that
Speaker 3: are creating amazing technology. And then the question is product
Speaker 3: market fit at scale?
Speaker 1: What do you think the next technological evolution is going
Speaker 1: to be? They could potentially be a sort of chat
Speaker 1: GPT moment, or a deep seek moment, or one of
Speaker 1: these sort of breakthrough ahaz.
Speaker 3: One of the things I think we're going to to
Speaker 3: see this year, all of the major AI companies are
Speaker 3: working on amplifying coding. And one of the things like,
Speaker 3: for example, you know for your kids, other things will
Speaker 3: be yes, you have to bring up the UH will
Speaker 3: be actually all of us will have a software engineering
Speaker 3: assistant and that will make all of our work a
Speaker 3: lot better. UH. And that's one of the things I
Speaker 3: think hasn't yet entered the consciousness. So I think that's
Speaker 3: one of the things that's coming. UH. And then of course,
Speaker 3: you know, with what I'm doing with manus I'm hopeful
Speaker 3: that we will have some really great early results in
Speaker 3: hearing cancer.
Speaker 2: And how we can accelerate the scientific process. I say,
Speaker 2: we're all up with you on that page. You're very successful.
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir, read to appreciate your time. Thank you
Speaker 2: so good to see you. Ride half and there manus
Speaker 2: Ai and a whole lot more