**Date Created** — 20230825- **Author | Presenter** — [[Emily Chang]] **Recommended by** — Resource — [Microsoft & OpenAI CEOs: Dawn of the AI Wars](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ydFDwv-n8w) ## My Notes - [[Microsoft]] had anti-trust issues in 2000 - 2010 and flat-lining growth - [[Satya Nadella]] has used [[artificial-intelligence]]to prompt new growth in the Company - Interview with [[Satya Nadella]] - Move from Autopilot to Copilot — AI is already here, but it’s a black box that we simply receive — now we will move to a paradigm where we prompt and work with the AI to get the result we want - AI is in Search - AI is in news - AI is in social media - All dictating to where our attention is focused - AI will interface with your business intelligence - I’m seeing XYZ Customer can you summarise xyz information that I need - These will be tools that we use - you do not accept them blindly you tweak them in the same way you amend someone else’s draft - ChatGPT when it first came out was when Mosaic came out in 1993 — feels like the Bill Memo in 1995 — it’s as big as the internet — - Ethical AI - Centre for Humane Technology describing the race to AI is a race to recklessness - This is no longer a side thing for us — I cannot have an AI Team on the Side — it’s mainstream — and we apply the same scrutiny on it as we do all our mainstream projects - Note also — the AI is in our lives already and we should apply the same scrutiny there - Kids - They will have an infinite amount of available time — these chatbots are so friendly and will that be a healthy relationship — will it nudge them in the wrong direction - That’s why moving from autopilot to copilot is a good shift — we should be watchful of what happens — generation of people growing up with AI goes from engagement to more agency to learn - Jobs - [[Sam Altman]] thinks AI will generate utopia and produce enough to cut everyone a decent sized check — but there will be some job losses - SN: Keynes to Altman all talk about 2 day work week and I’m looking forward to it - yes there will be disruption — there will be increased wages due to increased productivity — we should look at it all but be clear eyed about job displacement risk - Note existing writers strike is partly about AI - Interview with [[Sam Altman]] - does handwritten notes - we have imperfect information about where china and russia is in AI - Translation from chatGPT was amazing — also using it to write faster and think faster — it’s a great ‘unsticking’ tool - Autopilot to Copilot - this will be my super assistant for all my cognitive work - Anxiety - thinks people are getting emotionally attached to language models - Worried about rate of change being fast - what will this do to economy - change brings anxiety - With any powerful technology — there are major downsides we have to manage to get the upsides — I expect upsides to be greater than anything we have seen and potential downsides also to be super bad — but quality of conversation on how to productively do that has also improved very fast — finished his world trip super optimistic - Kill Switch - Could you turn it off — SA: Yes we could shut down our data centres etc — not sure that’s what people mean though — all our best practices on how to build this safely .. that’s the way to go — the way we would turn this off isn’t a big switch — we have developed safety practices — that’s the ‘kill switch’ - Competition - OpenAI is the front-runner - The partnership with [[Microsoft]] is working really well - Kids - Kids should study — resiience adaptability high rate of learning creativity - familiarity with the tools - Should learn to code — to understand it not so much to actually code — also a great way to think — coding in the future will change as we have a new tool - Hope - 100 years in the future — they have it so good — cant believe they call it work its so trivial — - I do think world will be more fair — technology is fundamental an equalising force — needs partnership from society and institutions to get there — big picture view of next decade — cost of intelligence and cost of energy come way way down — helps everyone — lifts up the floor a lot - Bloomberg Session with [[Sam Altman]] - Q: How do we get from cool chatbot to end of humanity — SA: Well, plan is not to — many ways it could go wrong but we work with pwoerful tech that can be used in dangerous ways very frequently — we’ve developed over the decades good safety system practices — not perfect and this wont be perfect either — main thing that i think is important is that we are on an exponential curve — steep one — human intuition for exponential curves is really bad in general — not important from evolutionary history — we need to push ourselves then to say GPT4 not a risk — but how sure are we that GPT9 wont be — even if there is a small percentage chance then that deserves great care - Q: Why not stop then? SA: AI — the upsides are tremendous — opp for everyone on earth ot have a better quality education than anyone can get today — that’s important and would be a bad thing to stop — medical care and making that avialbae globally will be transformative — scientific progress we will see —sustainable progress comes from technological progress — we will have a lot more than that — but we have to manage through the risk to get there — no company could stop it at this point — - Q: Incredible amount of power at this time — SA: You shouldn’t — I’m trying to show up and allow people to ask questions — but no one person should be trusted here — ## Quotes --- **Tags** — [[literature-notes]], [[artificial-intelligence]], [[ai-problems]] , [[Sam Altman]], [[Satya Nadella]],