This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

Artificial intelligence, artificial generative intelligence, AI, AGI, I,GI, quantum computing.

These are mysterious terms where we're told again and again there is a race between the

People's Republic of China, the United States of America, and its European allies.

My watcher of this contest is Brandon Weikert, author of Winning Space and other distinguished publications.

We are watching both AI, AGI, and then over here in the world of the future, we're watching

Quantum. Right now, there is an interview I recommend to everyone, full-length interview in the

Financial Times, by one of their young correspondents talking to Christopher

Bishop. He is in Cambridge, Great Britain. He is in charge of Microsoft's team that are looking

at applications of AI for science research. That is what they're emphasizing. But at the same time,

he takes us down the road of how did we get here. Brandon, a very good evening to you. Microsoft

very quietly is doing hard science with AI. The opinion of Mr. Bishop is that chemistry, physics, biology, and astronomy will all

benefit enormously, probably more than anything else, including copy editing my daily work

with AI. Is that your opinion, Brandon? Is that opinion that's widely held that it's science

where the frontier is?

Good evening to you.

Well, good evening, John.

Thanks for having me.

Yes, I think that my personal opinion, clearly the opinion of this gentleman, and I think

many people in the hard sciences field are now coming around to this idea that AI is probably going to be the most

consequential over the long term in the hard sciences.

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