The real benchmark for AI progress is whether it makes a real difference in people’s lives — in healthcare, education, and productivity. Thanks to Y Combinator for having me at AI Startup School.
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If there's one lesson history is thought of is that if you're going to use energy, you better have social permission to use energy. So that means you've got to make sure that the output of this AI is socially useful. If we really are not creating social surplus, economic surplus as measured by countries and communities, we just can't consume energy. And so that to me is the bigger thing. Like everybody's today hot and bothered about, OK, what do I do about energy production, I think. The real question in the next 5 years is we've got to produce enough products that are creating great value, which I'm very confident of, by the way, in healthcare and education in in productivity. So there's many, many domains. But that's the real challenge for us as a tech industry is to prove unequivocally that what we have created is showing up in real stats. That is not just an AGI or AI benchmark. The hope is that this will show up. And sort of the real things that you sort of interact with on a daily basis that 100%, you know, you go use your, you get a mortgage loan and instead of, you know, beautiful three months or two months of waiting around and you don't know if you're going to get approved or, you know, there's just so many things that are important parts of your life that, you know, get drowned in paperwork or bureaucracy that those things could potentially go away. 100% Think healthcare like in the United States. What is it 1819% of our cost? Healthcare and a lot of it, like everybody talks about the magical drug, blah, blah, blah, except all of the cost is in workflow. And so if you really take something like a simple thing like discharge the amount that you take the back end of an EMR system with a just a, an LLM and a prompt, that itself is going to save so much time and money and energy that it would sort of pay for itself.
So what programs do you have to help us build and market tools? This seems like a call to action. Seems to me this is a great time to pitch how you help. Ycombinator tries to build insane scale companies - which is interesting - but as we dive into nuanced, harder problems, there needs to be other channels.
I love your optimism! It's wild to think that in just five years, we might be looking back at ChatGPT the way we now marvel at a VCR – a quaint relic from a bygone era of "dumb" AI. Bring on the future!
There seems to be a growing gap between tech idealism and social reality. #AI is advancing fast — no doubt — but it’s worth asking: • Is it improving life for everyone, or just a select few? • Is it truly expanding access to healthcare and education, or just boosting investor portfolios? • Is “productivity” becoming a code word for less jobs and doing more with less? These are difficult questions, and unfortunately, many of the people shaping the future of #AI aren’t the ones facing the real-world impact of its disruption. 👁️🗨️ Just something to sit with.
Good AI is "AI that is socially useful" 🎯
MSFT Mission statement: Building Technology that empowers people's lives
The real benchmark is Secure AI - Lets meet in November, London! - "Your next threat isn't human. Your next defender wont be either"
As rightly told, the health care workflow overhead can be reduced, but the question is the system- payers and providers, willing to takeup this and adopt, for benefiting patients along with?
I don't think the question is whether AI will make a difference, the questions arise around the uncertainty of the repercussions of AI implementation. Workplace displacement, overreliance on AI responses, and even the seemingly unsustainable energy consumption from millions of AI responses.
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