Bill Gates Says Superhuman AI May Be Closer Than You Think

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🗓️ 27 June 2024

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Where is AI headed, and how quickly will it get there? Should we be early adopters or keep our distance? Will it make our lives better or put us out of work? We can’t think of a better person to answer these questions than Bill Gates. He’s played a leading role in every major tech development over the last half-century, and he’s got a pretty good track record when it comes to forecasting the future. Back in 1980, he predicted that one day there’d be a computer on every desk; today on the show, he says there will soon be an AI agent in every ear. Rufus and Bill are joined by Andy Sack and Adam Brotman, co-authors of an exciting new book called “AI First.” Together, they consider AI’s impact on healthcare, education, productivity, and business. They dig into the technology’s risks. And they explore its potential to cure diseases, enhance creativity, and usher in a world of abundance. 📕 To learn more about Andy and Adam’s AI lab, Forum3, visit https://www.forum3.com. And for exclusive insights from their book, “AI First,” head to https://www.forum3.com/book 🎁 If you love the show, the best way to let us know is by becoming a Next Big Idea Club member. Learn more at https://nextbigideaclub.com/ and use code PODCAST to get 20% off your subscription

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0:00.0	LinkedIn presents.
0:02.0	I'm Rufus Griskam and this is the next big idea.
0:10.0	Today Bill Gates on AI, the path to super intelligence, and what it means for all of us. I suspect that every moment in human history has felt pivotal, precarious, as if anything could happen.
0:39.0	But it also must be true that some moments are more pivotal than others. This is one of those moments.
0:46.4	We've seen the impact of transformative technological change. The internet has sped the world up
0:52.1	and social media now on most every phone and most every hand
0:55.8	Has polarized our communities hyperbolized our politics and now we are in the early moments of the AI revolution.
1:05.0	What will the next decade bring?
1:07.0	There are few people I would rather ask this question
1:10.0	than Microsoft co-founder and global philanthropist Bill Gates.
1:15.0	Bill's been at the forefront of the race to build machines that can empower humans for 50 years.
1:20.0	Ever since he declared his mission to put a computer on every desk in every home.
1:26.1	He was instrumental in driving the development of personal computing in the 80s, the growth of
1:30.1	the internet in the 90s, and more recently leading the charge to eradicate malaria and
1:35.2	other diseases.
1:36.8	In the last few years he's been on the front lines of Microsoft's partnership with Open
1:41.1	AI and the development of gPT.
1:44.0	How is it, you may be wondering, that Bill Gates has ended up joining us today?
1:49.0	Well, for the last few months, I've been reading a book that's being published serially by Harvard Business Review.
1:55.0	It's called AI First.
1:57.0	And it features interviews with folks like Reed Hoffman, Mustafa Sullivan, Sam Altman,
2:01.9	and Bill, who collectively make the case that AI isn't overhipped, it's underhiped.
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