Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Eric Schmidt (The Age of AI: And Our Human Future) is a technologist, businessman, and former CEO of Google. Eric joins the Armchair Expert to discuss writing a book with Henry Kissinger about the growing industry of Artificial Intelligence, how AI will shape the minds of younger generations, and how it can discover new truths that humans can't see. Eric and Dax talk about the possible solutions for homelessness, how other countries are addressing the housing crisis, and how we should stop criminalizing addictive behavior. Eric explains the concept of large language models as it relates to AI, how the internet isn't optional but fundamental for people in today's world, and that in the near future the only resource left for humans compete over will be fame. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome welcome to armchair expert. Experts on expert, I'm Dan Shepard. I'm joined by Monica Mouse.
0:06.4	Hi. How are you? Oh, we were saying that maybe my new animal is a, it's like a mouse a hyrax high racks you're a high racks
0:16.4	Monica high racks oh yeah Monica high racks bad because you said your new nickname is the
0:21.0	bolder oh shit right that was on another thing that we didn't err.
0:24.7	Yeah.
0:25.7	Yeah, that's important.
0:27.0	People should recognize that I am now going by the Boulder.
0:29.8	Yep.
0:30.8	Because what's more formidable of Boulder or the rock I think the viewer can decide
0:36.7	This guess I really hope people listen to this interview because I'm gonna put it in into a handful of guests we've had,
0:44.7	where I just was literally overwhelmed
0:47.6	with the scope and breadth of their knowledge
0:51.9	of how all things work, where I was like, oh wait, does this person kind of understand how everything works in concert?
0:57.3	It's amazing to be in front of someone like that. Yes, and that man is Eric Schmidt. Now Eric Schmidt is a technologist and entrepreneur and a philanthropist. He is the founder of Schmidt futures and former CEO of Google for a long time.
1:12.0	Yeah.
1:12.5	I started this interview wondering how would those two people pick someone they thought was more
1:18.1	qualified than themselves to run their company?
1:20.4	Who could that person be?
1:22.0	And we met him?
1:23.1	He has a new book out called The Age of AI
1:26.0	and Our Human Future.
1:27.7	The age of AI and our human future
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