AI's Future and Human Evolution with Walter O'Brien

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In today's episode, I'm joined by Walter O'Brien, the Irish businessman and tech visionary who inspired the television series Scorpion. We explore the future of artificial intelligence, the singularity, and Walter's personal contributions to tech, including his insights on AI ethics and societal impacts. Walter shares his experiences in developing AI technologies that exceed human intelligence, and we discuss how AI might reshape our world. The profound implications of AI stretch from enhancing human capabilities to altering societal structures, revealing how closely human and machine intelligence are becoming intertwined.

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0:00.0	This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook, where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success.
0:12.0	Welcome to Office Hours.
0:13.2	I'm David Meltzer.
0:14.8	I am so excited because guys, our first guest
0:18.1	is the, you know how people think that Jerry McGuire
0:22.0	was based off of our firm Lee Steinberg Sports Entertainment.
0:26.0	Well my favorite show is Scorpion because it really challenged me intellectually
0:31.6	to understand the capacity of the human mind and
0:35.0	intelligence in different ways and this is the real life scorpion.
0:41.0	They based the CBS Super series on this man, Walter O'Brien, aka
0:47.4	Scorpion, my friend. Welcome to Office Hours.
0:50.6	Thanks for having me, Dave.
0:53.0	Appreciate it.
0:54.0	So as much as they base the show on your true life,
0:58.0	how much of AI is based off of your actual brain. It's a good question.
1:05.0	It's a good question.
1:06.0	Depends on which AI you're talking about.
1:09.0	We invented a technology called SendGen that we've been using for about 15 years in military and Fortune 1000 and that is very much based off of how I think and
1:20.7	Developing it had what they call the Frankenstein effect where several times as I developed it and I thought it had bugs in it
1:27.8	it turns out the bugs were in me meaning the system had surpassed me and it also led to me stopping playing chess and other
1:35.0	games because now I develop something that can beat me so kind of took the fun out of it.
1:40.0	That is so funny.
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