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🗓️ 21 April 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence Chair and Former CEO of Google Eric Schmidt joins Michael Morell to discuss the importance of investing in artificial intelligence as a national security priority. Schmidt believes China is likely to catch up to the United States in a few years in its artificial intelligence capabilities. He outlines how intelligence and national defense can benefit from superiority in these technologies and the benefits of holding A.I. to American values.
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0:00.0 | This is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morel. |
0:06.6 | Brought to you by Lockheed Martin. Your mission is ours. |
0:11.6 | There are things that computers can do that are better than humans, because, you know, |
0:15.6 | frankly, computers don't get bored, they don't have to sleep, they have infinitely better |
0:20.0 | memories. And the initial use of artificial intelligence and national security is probably |
0:26.5 | in vision systems. If you think about national security in your previous roles, you spent |
0:33.2 | an awful lot of time just sort of watching things. Watching for this, watching for that, |
0:38.6 | watching for someone, watching for something to happen, watching for something to be said. |
0:45.5 | Computers are extraordinarily good at finding that needle in a haystack using artificial |
0:51.4 | intelligence principles. Where is the US relative to China in terms of AI capabilities and |
0:59.6 | which way are trends headed? Where we are today with AI is that we judge America still |
1:07.9 | ahead, but China investing very heavily and likely to catch up very soon. In general, |
1:18.5 | aren't we doing that we should be doing? Well, we have lots of recommendations. In |
1:22.2 | fact, we have 750 pages of recommendations. I know. I know. I know. We took the liberty |
1:29.2 | of writing the laws for the government, so they could just say yes. So that's how serious |
1:34.9 | we are about this threat. I want to win for America, and I want to America to do whatever |
1:43.0 | it takes to build the next generation of platforms in technology that cause trillions of dollars |
1:49.0 | of new companies to get created. They're going to be an awful lot of great business opportunities |
1:53.6 | for businesses to work with the US government as this AI revolution unfolds. Somebody says |
1:59.2 | to you, so at the end of the day, why does this matter to me? What would your answer be? |
2:03.9 | Does it matter that America leads the technology world? And the answer is absolutely. Stock market |
2:09.8 | wealth is directly tied to the innovation that we do. Eric Schmidt is a giant in understanding |
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