Eric Schmidt on Navigating an AI-Enabled Future | TransformX 2022

Thanks to Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and plenty of others, AI technologies are now more visible to the public than ever. But even though there have been numerous AI advancements and AI-infused products over the past decade, many organizations are still looking to understand how AI fits into their path to innovation. Eric Schmidt is an accomplished technologist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist and is well known for leading Google in its early days, from 2001 to 2011, and helping it to scale its infrastructure, diversify its product offerings, and maintain a strong culture of innovation. Today, he runs Schmidt Futures-a philanthropic venture-and advises governments and societies around the world on how to build a brighter future through technology.
Gerrit De Vynck, AI and algorithms reporter for The Washington Post, will moderate a fireside chat between Schmidt and Scale Founder and CEO Alexandr Wang, where they will talk about today’s advances in AI compared to 10 years ago. Schmidt and Wang will share their thoughts on what the next generation of AI companies will look like, what the proliferation of AI technology will mean for big tech, startups, and government, and how to push AI forward responsibly.
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[@rickevans7941]

"So, I think it's going to be A Brave New World over the next few years." - A. Wang, Scale AI Yeah, me too buddy then 1984.

[@leonfa259]

Especially if they equate US national security to democracy

[@KBProduction]

Bunch of thanks for Scale AI for openly organizing this innovative event

[@cutiex7357]

Yay thank you so much for putting this on KZbin!!! Much needed ! Was watching transform x and want to share to all my friends

[@breaktherules6035]

Excellent insights! THANK YOU so much for sharing!

[@kennethvanallen4492]

At 10:30, Schmidt: the people who invented vision systems did not think they would be used by the Chinese to track and oppress outgroups. That's complete rubbish. I attended many security conferences during the emergence of this technology as commercial products, and every single one of the developing organizations PITCHED that aspect the technology as the PRIMARY benefit for their target markets.

[@MrTinfoilSombrero]

Woe yay bs tech pricks.

[@theoneed2051]

There were a series of great speakers (like this one), presentations, including some technical ones. There should be 3 days' worth of interviews and presentation to look at. TransformX was great!

[@neilclay5835]

You've done some great interviews here. Nice one

[@chubulu9842]

I see Eric Schmidt I click

[@TheFunofMusic]

Love this ❤

[@blakeedwards3582]

Thank you!

[@edkalski2312]

When the government gives money, it generally wants to also take control. And yet the growth of AI will happen faster without government control. How do you reconcile those two situations?

[@thelight9492]

3:57 “I think it’s going to be A Brave New World over the next few years” - Alex Wang CEO Could he be trying to warn us? 😮

[@TheBlackClockOfTime]

10:54 oh the irony.

[@thatryanp]

I only want to be disinformed by Good Actors. They know what's best

[@MitchellPorter2025]

People always worry about bad actors. Can't they work with, like, IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes to keep track of who the bad actors are

[@dennisadams4392]

Hiiii Eric!!!! :)

[@ruthmedford5582]

I hope everyone is welcome to engage and participate and once more be relevant - which includes the older population.

[@LeftBoot]

IoT, Blockchain & AI Technology 🤯

[@Mr.McMello]

Personally directed education enabled by AI will revolutionize education and accelerate human flourishing..

[@Stamps9696]

This is what I’m already enjoying and excited about!

[@ThrallFrostwolf7]

alot of schools/ universities are gonna collapse

[@Mr.McMello]

@@Stamps9696 me too

[@big_red_machine3547]

I can’t understand why the EU and western countries are opposed to AI (excluding UK). India is going to be the top global superpower soon because they’re getting free Open-source AI in their schools

[@harrywoods9784]

Just a thought, in my mind Integrated AI Is a fast moving black swan event. Integrated AI is a black hole sucking up, converging multiple exponential technologies. The augmentation possibilities with us as the author is mine blowing. The limiting factor is being able to analyze and wrap our head around, This technological supernova.🤔IMO

[@OrniasDMF]

Countries, governments and oligarchs are rich, not people. Tell them to pay their taxes and maybe wealth would distribute a bit more evenly, so we could have good infrastructure, instead of being a blood clot for the economy.

[@catsaresocute650]

realatedly people need to be able to monitor what it is doing

[@Whointheworldisthis]

The last major economic recession in 2008/9 came just behind the popular adoption of mobile technology with the iPhone and Blackberry, and social media led by Facebook. Is anyone surprised that present recession of 2022/3 is emerging with the mass awareness and initial application of LLM's starting in 2017 and maturing in 2022?

[@Joe-vg1rb]

'The Telrphone' 'The Space Race', 'The Cambrian Explosion', 'The Manhatten Project'. These subject matter experts don't use these analogies lightly I'd imagine.

[@danhan7869]

They talk about diversity, globalization, anti racism etc but I feel this whole talk is about beating china and maintaining western supremacy.

[@TJ-hs1qm]

25:19 Schmidt totally missed the gist of the question. He was asking if advanced AI tech should remain exclusively in the hands of US military or if it can be shared with Nato partners in order to deter potential aggressors i.e. to _avoid_ wars. not how the US supports the Ukraine in an already ongoing war.

[@ThePallidor]

The highest tech isn't going to be controlled by any central powers.

[@franciscorosa760]

I thought that here in the West it was a plutocracy that ruled, but after all I was wrong, it's a democracy!

[@david_6063]

Why would I need live translation to communicate with people I care about the most? The people I care about the most already speak my language. If AI makes us all great writers, one, the writer is the AI not us, so we become terrible writers, and two, everyone sounds the same, so not even the AI is great (if everyone is great, no one is great).

[@sb_dunk]

Bro I wanna talk to my dog

[@JJs_playground]

Certain people in my girlfriend's family don't speak English. I speak Arabic, but don't know how to read or write it anymore. I also don't know certain words, because I grew up in Canada. It would be great if I could do live translation with family members that don't speak English would be great as well.

[@Mr.McMello]

Central control of the technology will not work.

[@xerasion]

He says the "1st thing" we should do is hire foreigners to staff our technology firms. At 51 years old with $85k in student loan debt and no Bachelors degree and no assest nor savings nor healthcare, because the skills I was going to school for were outsourced, in-sourced with the H1B visa, and ultimately automated away, I take offense to Thunderdome ethic that I should have even more competition for technology jobs from people from countries with universal education. If they don't have student loans to pay back, then neither should I. Forgive ALL student debt NOW! Universal education is necessary for a democracy to function and to compete for jobs. Not having Universal education is simply unaffordable. We pay dearly to keep our public ignorant. Life is simply not worth living without Universal education and Healthcare. As soon as I get sick, I'm out. No one will pay for me to live even if I had worthless for profit insurance that denies every claim. The 1st thing we should do is forgive all student debt. The LAST thing we should do is hire a bunch of foreigners to drive down the wages of domestic technology jobs!!!

[@BartChapman]

Nothing that requires the labor of others is your basic right. Until we can dissolve the higher Ed administrative state, subsidized education only grows the ‘safe space’ beast.

[@xerasion]

@Bart C. In other words, what you're saying is that we should not educate the public in this country and just hire people from other countries that do educate their people. What is the point of a country or society that can't even produce healthy educated citizens? I'm tired of living in an aristocracy that only cares about the wealthy and throws the rest of us to the wolves.

[@xerasion]

@Bart C. We need to dissolve the United States of America, because it is a "safe space" for snowflake billionaires who need to be bailed out of their poor business decisions after paying no taxes.

[@larrylyon6695]

Sorry pal but you should have gone to nursing school instead of racking up student loan debt while making no progress in your education. Remember “Dirty Harry’s advice: A person needs to know their limitations”. Loser!

[@talhasial9337]

Alexander wang is the junior elon musk

[@williamjmccartan8879]

31 minutes, asking about using these tools for democracy, requires partners who are engaged in the same end goals, it didn't work by making these civilizations rich, technology will not change their minds either, those who gain control of these instruments will use them for their own purposes. Naive question, in my limited experience and knowledge of the geopolitical world we live in. When it comes to education, i wish these people would engage with Zak Stein.

[@randaaustin6877]

The two major problems with this conference meeting: They didn't address the ethical problems of releasing the tech into an unregulated system, and they didn't address the monetization of the tech. Eric raved of the great advances in our lives, but he has free and open access to these applications. We as a general public will not.

[@guimaraesalysson]

10:36 exactly because of that face recognition should be banned

[@calvinsylveste8474]

Why

[@bentobin9606]

@@calvinsylveste8474 so child abductors are able to roam free because the cameras wont be allowed to identify the subject as a missing person

[@Mr.McMello]

Government "investment" leads to misallocation of resources. The free market is the only way to direct investments to to their best use.

[@bentobin9606]

no. scientists will decide which scientific projects get funding not the ppl who buy luxury items/other garbage

[@alexx7643]

What do you think about the future of AI with respect to nfts? Many projects are using AI for various utilities and purposes. One of them is Alethea. I found their work really innovative. They make NFTs intelligent and responsive using AI.

[@ThePallidor]

Forget NFTs. Satoshi Nakamoto's vision is a million times bigger and broader than that.

[@paulbali9998]

make sure this dangerous tech stays safely in the hands of U.S. Military, tx

[@david_6063]

If we can use AI to optimize chip layout (wiping out the jobs of thousands of layout engineers), the CCP can do the same thing. Cutting edge chip technology will continue to be an arms race until some limits are reached, similar to what happened with nuclear weapons. Why no discussion of the oncoming job destruction? At what point does AI replace you?

[@hhuuzzzzaahh]

if you've read history you should be concerned for the future. we have no idea. making more people. needing less. what could possibly go wrong.

[@danishsoomro1238]

Any technology should not be used for war either attacking or defending. How much more human suffering you wanna see? All smartness is garbage if you could not come up with peaceful solutions.

[@AndrewHormanDru]

Number one back actor's.....mmmmmm Interesting, NSA, CIA.....?

[@aaronnicholson8154]

These smart psychopaths won’t talk about all the jobs they are displacing and not giving an alternative for! (UBI - I don’t see that happening.)

[@JM7Blocks]

Ai will replace knowledge work. Which means there will be no value to being smart or knowledgeable in the future. We will devolve into brutes that just farm and maintain the AI centers.

[@domitron]

"I am super interested in these technologies being used for the military. I think that many of these technologies can be used for pro-social technologies." - talk about an oxymoron!

[@redvertex333]

came for the technology and boom full political ai integration protocol . can you please fix the democracy you integrated in Iraq first

[@-K-K-1]

So, these three are full of hot air. Everyone knows there is a winter in tech which is mirroring the overall systemic crisis that we've been entering since 2008, and using loaded terms like AI, or vague ones like "Democracy and ethics" instead of focusing on specific problems like Automation, language processing, robotics etc just means that they don't have anything new to add to the topic and it stagnates. Yes, I am a software engineer.

[@TJ-hs1qm]

We have to stop deploying AI technology for mass availability without ever considering the ethical, social and economical consequence for our democracies. It's not enough to go public, pocket in the profits and watch chaos unfolds. This won't end well for no one. The public must have a say not only because so much public money has gone into building the foundation for these technologies.

[@bentobin9606]

THANKS 4 THE INPUT REDUNDANT SWINE

[@ThePallidor]

If you ask for regulation, it will be a disaster and only the baddies inside and outside gov will have have the best tech.

[@djayb]

Too late.

[@pse2020]

The economic system is built around profit, there is no positive implimentation for this tech with that as a motive.

[@WorldCelebrityCatchup]

Do you actually know how many restrictions are in place already, people were asking how to create some crazy things and exploit banks, it literally found banking exploits for hackers in seconds, talking about chatGPT now, so believe me when I say this version of AI we the public are getting is heavily restricted the billionaires get the unrestricted versions

[@user-wr4yl7tx3w]

Too much talk about politics. Interesting but there’s too much of this already.

[@larrylyon6695]

Totally too much hand wringing going on here which ignores the issue regarding the need to protect your IP (intellectual property) means that IP is only protected until it becomes public. The alternative is for AI to be controlled by Uncle Sam’s national security regime.

[@undrash]

Propaganda 🙂

[@KBProduction]

Bunch of thanks for Scale AI for openly organizing this innovative event