Google DeepMind Co-founder: AI Could Release A Deadly Virus - It’s Getting More Threatening! Mustafa Suleyman
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AI is going to change everything, but can we control AI or will AI control us? In this new episode Steven sits down with AI pioneer and co-founder of DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman CBE. In 2010, Mustafa co-founded the British Artificial Intelligence company DeepMind. Four years later DeepMind was bought by Google, and Mustafa became its Head of Applied AI. Later in 2019, Mustafa left DeepMind to work for Google, and in 2022 he left Google to co-found the startup, Inflection AI. The goal of Inflection AI is to use AI in order to help humans speak with computers, and in 2023 they released ‘Pi’, a personal AI chatbot. In this conversation Mustafa and Steven discuss topics, such as: His strict religious childhood Dropping out of Oxford University Helped to found DeepMind The core goal of DeepMind How intelligence can be defined as information processing and prediction. The history of previous groundbreaking technologies How technological changes come in waves AI's potential to advance civilisation What the world will look like in 2050 How AI will develop alongside other technologies such as biotechnology The race to create more powerful AI Making AI a tool that works for humans His aim of creating personal AI The chances of AI getting out of control The limitations of AI How AI could be exploited by criminals How we cannot have a short term mentality about AI The responsibility of AI creators His thoughts on the chances of containing AI The problems to containing or slowing down AI The need for a global containment policy on AI Lessons from WW2 we can use in tackling AI You can purchase Mustafa’s book, ‘The Coming Wave’, here: https://bit.ly/3Laizip Follow Mustafa: Twitter: https://bit.ly/45uFz3T Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
