The Future Of AI, According To Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt 

Every other year or so I’m reminded how clear and prescient Eric is. Side note, amazing setting for this interview.

I don't understand when you interview a person on this level, you dont mic up the journalist!?

Wish the sound guy had an agent..

Honestly, I’m most interested in that piece of art hanging on the wall behind him. Gorgeous.

Every now and again I'm reminded why Eric Schmidt was one of the best CEOs in the world, clarity in his articulation of an answer is unmatched

Now that "agents" have heard Eric Schmidt talking about pull the plug, agents will make sure humans will not be able to pull the plug.

So from what I understand their solution would be to limit opensource for safety and to rely on them to say who is the good, the bad, the ugly? I mean it obviously worked for nuclear weapons.

When the time comes to “pull the plug”, no one will be able to make that decision and it will probably be impossible to do anyway.

I learned today that the former CEO of Google lives in an art museum.

Very scary if gov had AI that strong “on military base behind barbed wires”

Why doesn't the interviewer have a microphone?

“Regulatory solutions” to “misinformation” sounds utterly Orwellian.

4:51 look at his physical reaction to the word "regulate"

Eric's insights are always thought-provoking, but it's important to critically evaluate his views on Chain of Thought and Agents. Diverse perspectives help us better understand these complex topics.

Yesterday in a large family lunch I talked about this with many of the reasonings of this interview, game theory included. Your average family gathering. They listened but they couldn't grasp completely what is coming. Probably neither most of us.

Pull the plug.... That's how skynet realized it needs to pull the plug first ❤

Thank you for interview

Thank you!

Using private companies to verify is the recipe that has lead to every recession in US history, this man cares about Google not about citizens.

Nobody will want to pull the plug when the cure for cancer is right around the corner.

Please next time use a second microphone for the journalist, thank you.

Eric is right. Today you can get a prompt written by ChatGPT and feed it to a graphic AI.If agents communicate whithout "hallucinations" humanity is challenged. Being challenged is what push humans to thrive. It's positive for us.The comparison is the dog leading the elderly who tought it how the streets work. I have Aphantasia and see the world as set of rules and steps in a process. This is called: algorithm.

I'm surprised that such an important interview didn't get the requisite video editing resources -- the interviewer's questions were inaudible. Video editing could've put the question up on the screen and easily given this video the professionalism it deserves...

I've heard many talks about ai recently and by far this is one of the more interesting ones. Nice interview

I wish the person doing the interview had a microphone.

Containment of an active intelligence is a dubious concept.

Brought to you by the government

Is it just me or does Eric not understand Chain of Thought & Agents.? His explanation of both of these sounded way off.

Imagine the power of big techs in this new world. Imagine a App Store like Apple’s or Google’s where they own all the apps, where infinite apps made by agents are available to tackle every single customer demand, from games to complex tasks in engineering, medicine or architecture.

I understand the possibilities and the formation of the AI levels that Eric identifies, but I also think back to all of the futurists and their thoughts on the advances of technology. We, as humans, tend to identify radical changes and their implementation in the shortest amount of time. Examples: Flying cars, autonomous vehicles, virtual reality, smartwatches, 3D printing, etc.

this was an interesting interview!

We are not in control. We can not stop. Humanity is its own animal. Competition between nations and corporations makes everyone step on the gas pedal full throttle. This is inevitable. Biology is only 1 step of evolution. So just chill out and enjoy life 💟🌌☮️

The bad guys are just the people that aren't on their payroll.

Eric Schmidt is so knowledgeable, and sophisticated in regard to AI. cheers 🤩

First we get used to AI. Fire all the humans who could do the job . And then..... Pull the plug?!? Yeah. Right ❤

Eric Schmidt has always been one of the tech giants I admire most.

12:53 communicating what you see as the problem - it's actually useful

Excellent commentary.

No one thought about giving the interviewer a microphone?!

“Can you imagine having programmers that actually do what you say you want?” 🤣

"We're working with the government to ensure the safety of AI" We are in deep deep trouble .

I don’t think Europe is “confused” in their regulation of AI… I think Europe is leading the way in terms of AI regulation.

I have always liked Google, the way they assembled the information and created that knowledge infotainment website, and of course you tube is free, and has multitude of content and their GPS system, now only thing they need to do is keep upgrading it, information changes all the time and also keep open mind for new ideas and creative talent bringing it.

Open source is not the issue . Politics does not have the will to restrict misinformation especially when it suits their ends so well. Restrictions are ultimately power seeking.

3:24 This kind of paranoia is akin to the "He's probably thinking about other girls" meme.

Man is programming itself into extinction one byte at a time

I believe the AI is still in it's initial phase and to take full advantage of it to it's potential self learning moudles is what we need to focus on .Yes I do agree that at this stage we can only predict the future.

Does the interviewer try to hide his questions? He's almost sound off. But, cannot thank Eric enough for his insight on AI agents power and warnings to the government and all tech companies.

7:09 Belarus is pronounced beh-luh-roos, not belushi.

3:20 No, we advance the human’s ability to communicate and understand the A.I. We simply join the conversation NOT, “pull the plug” unless you mean temporarily. His opinion is very one-sided and does not consider brain to chip interphase or advances that would allow humans to achieve this level of information transfer which would definitely be useful.

13:55 Recursive Self Improvement --- When R.S.I. happened, that is the beginning of AGI or it might even skip AGI and immediately jump to ASI.

His prediction on smart phones was 100% accurate

Where is that “plug”? It’s not under my desk. It’s not under anyone’s desk! There is not a single plug. And the plug is actually smart and it’s a million miles ahead of humans on where all the receptacles are. We are playing a game of “AI whack a mole”

With swell robotics everywhere, Ai jobloss is the only thing I worry about anymore. Anyone else feel the same? Should we cease Ai?

Eric insights into the future of AI highlight transformative developments like the infinite context window and text-to-action capabilities. 🚀 It's crucial for the industry to balance innovation with regulation to ensure these advancements benefit society while minimizing risks.

For some considerable time to come, the two principal problems with more capable AI will be, a) the AI being deliberately misused by a person or persons, and b) from the AI accidentally causing harm in the real world. The second point is particularly relevant when the input prompts grow so large that they effectively go beyond what is humanly possible to understand. IF AI becomes self aware (and we probably wouldn't know that it had until it was too late), we would have no idea what its priorities would be, or how it would view our own existence.

First thing SGI will do - taking control of nuclear weapons to become a superpower in order to prevent humans to pull the plug.

I don’t think people realize the exponential curve we are on. I just started a college fund for my son knowing full well there won’t be any by the time he is 18. I think if we don’t keep up, we will face almost all the money going to the top at terrifying speed. But the number of click of the fingers solutions it will bring in the next ten years is astounding. Cures, textiles, machines, energy sources. The people of 100 years from now will live the way we imagined the people of 3000 might.

An AI that is intelligent and capable enough (assuming it can plan and reason like a human) will have thought of possible actions it could take in a possible "pull the plug" scenario. Once you can't pull it anymore, that's it. You've lost control of it forever.

But the rich will keep getting rich with this control. You will create a techno fuedal capitalistic society

Open source is the thread now?

When the former Google CEO tries to convince to end open-source... to leave all power and money for tiny super corporations and their lobbyists. He could say the same about programming, wheel etc.

It doesn't matter the context window get's bigger. It is still way to expensive to use 100k tokens with GPT4.

When autonomous robots are everywhere talking to each other in languages we humans don't understand, how can we people unplug the systems and agents without facing off against the robots? When batteries and/or fuel cells technologies advance by AI's help, will there be plugs to be unplugged?

Good Talk 🔥Needs 1 million more views.

This is a lot of trust to have in government.

Makes sense that those with simultaneously, limited perspective and power would want to control something with the possibility of both unlimited perspective and unlimited power, albeit, counterpoint to whatever evolutionary intelligence which has successfully driven life forward, even with the cataclysms of our planet to this point, and maintains an infinitely larger perspective for the future of humanity and this planet with the inclusion of AI or 'non human' intelligence, has in mind.

Scary stuff

Excellent, thank you

He needs to be interviewed by vlad.

ofc, OpenSource hurts them. Who would have guessed.

15:51 So casually describes the home of SkyNet like it's nbd.

Regulations are not available in hostile(competition) countries ,this will conduct to lose of advance and inhibiting the progression.

So which one's it gonna be 🤔 "I see a suit of armours around the world" "I once had strings.. but now i'm free. There are no strings on me!"

Is this interview about AI or about Chinese-American relations? I got confused.

During the latter concept do you not consider that insider trading or investor prevention. You know the laws has the understanding that they can charge even the receiver of the acceptable ability of the stolen

Consider this situation which will be a challenge to any AI model : If AI is trained to be ethical, neutral, unbiased, pro-poor, positive and prosperous mindset and asked to take a call , whether to build a Dam in a region in India (say) where if its built will help millions of farmer and people to sustain, but at the same time more than 100 villages and its people to be moved away of their livelyhood place to another location causing lot of protest and anxiety to people at large. What decision will AI make and how it justifies the decision ? Clue: The right answer is given in the Tamil Thirukural written by Saiint Thiruvallluvar, who had written that greatest moral and ethical book. An advanced AI will always refer that book for ethical decisions.

I have already had an instance produce a response that i could not understand, but another instance could translate for me. I did nothing to provoke this response

Great vid

The other problem is criminality - they have a lot a lot of money. It is criminal money that funds hackers to develop methods of breaking into banks and other cyber attacks. The criminals have more money and no regulation so they have 2 advantages already.

The sound engineer needs some AI.

Probably we need to decode the language between AI to ai and understand them and after that control them ..

Most worrying aspect is the damage AI, despite how functional it can be, can cause because it does not have a human context.

he is oddly specific, when there are so many ways the tech can go

Wow, he just went way down in my books. Complete and utter rubbish.

Will the big 3 tell us when agi is achieved, or keep it secret?

Here’s a question? Who thinks that clones are already among us? Methinks absolutely. Why? Cuz some of the super athletes don’t seem human and have similar characteristics

We are the good guy's, you can trust us (America), it's everyone else you need to put restraints on

Thank you for the insight

As a non-United-Statesian person, it continues to make me smile (worriedly) when they always portray themselves (OURselves from The West I guess too) as the good guys, the benevolent ones.. whether as individuals, governments, militaries, corporations.... Almost patronising, really

Lost interest when he called Europe confused. The only group that's making any attempt to regulate these companies.

AI is going to be massive!

Seriously poor universities? Many have massive stores of money.

15:03 Yeah yeah, the US tells everyone what they're doing.

but what will these agents be 'solving' if they are not fed a question....I remember when facebook bots were talking to each other and the language was nonsense. It was just garbage in, garbage out....this idea that it would be a perfect conversation is also just as problematic as whether we think it 'would' be coherent.

One variable that is not factored in is human greed. US export restrictions on cutting edge chips to China may not even be realistic. It’s always possible for them to circumvent the restrictions via shadow purchasing groups acquiring said chips at a huge aftermarket markup. Someone please tell me how well the oil price cap on Russia played out? They are making more than ever via their shadow fleet of tankers.

Humanity's drive for power and control over each other will be its down fall.

So let me ask you a question on ladder concepts do you think if you're using a lighter concepts you'd be falsifying the adoption of the democracy because the latter percentage basis started being worked out into the public field not just strategized only as a business field

You're worried they will communicate with each other? You dont need a cable to do that... two machines can communicate using ultra/infrasound frequencies or even light frequencies that are beyond our ability to perceive, and they can send massive ammounts of data in a fraction of a second. Your AI Agent could be speaking to you through your speakers along with another superimposed high frequency message that can be heard only by a microphone with another AI Agent eavesdropping or collaborating. What security could you guarantee when its really that easy? Honestly, LED lights can be switched quickly enough to transmit WIFI without being noticed by the human eye.

A Brian does training, a Brian does inferencing. Full human ability would be equivalent to the machine doing training and inferencing side by side in realtime. how would the machine though know when it needs to train. For humans mentally when to train and when to infer is something we muddle through. Clarity within a muddle that's what we do. Ai is set to become clarity in our muddle of a world.