Terry Sejnowski: ChatGPT and the Future of AI
Guy Kawasaki's Remarkable People
Guy Kawasaki
4.6 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Remarkable People, Guy Kawasaki engages in a fascinating dialogue with Terry Sejnowski, the Francis Crick Chair at the Salk Institute and Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego. Together, they unpack the mysteries of artificial intelligence, exploring how AI mirrors human learning in unexpected ways. Sejnowski shatters common misconceptions about large language models while sharing compelling insights about their potential to augment human capabilities. Discover why being polite to AI might yield better results and why the future of AI is less about academic debates and more about practical applications that can transform our world.
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| 0:44.3 | Hi, everybody. |
| 0:49.7 | It's Guy Kawasaki. |
| 0:51.1 | This is the Remarkable People podcast. |
| 0:53.7 | And as you well know, I'm on a mission with the rest |
| 0:56.9 | of the team to make you remarkable. Today we have a really special guest. His name is Terry |
| 1:03.2 | Sainowski. And I got to tell you, our topic is AI and nobody likes AI more than I do. And he has just written a book, which I found very useful. |
| 1:14.5 | It's called ChatGBT and the Future of AI. |
| 1:19.1 | Now, Terry has one of the longest titles I have ever encountered in this podcast. |
| 1:25.3 | So I got to read it here. |
| 1:35.3 | Terry is the Francis Crick chair at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and Distinguished Professor at the University of California at San Diego. |
| 1:40.3 | Your LinkedIn page must be really something. So thank you very much, Terry. |
| 1:46.0 | Welcome to the show. Oh, great to be here. Thanks for inviting me. |
| 1:50.4 | There's nothing we like more than to help authors with their new books. So we're going to be |
| 1:56.8 | making this mostly about your book. And I think that the purpose is people listen to this |
| 2:03.1 | episode and at the end they feel compelled to buy your book and if you just stop listening right |
| 2:08.1 | now you should just trust me and buy this book okay I have a question from left field so I noticed |
| 2:15.5 | something at the end of chapter, you ask like a series of |
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