800: Mustafa Suleyman discusses his career journey, the future of artificial intelligence, and his latest book; The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the 21st Century’s Greatest Dilemma. Mustafa describes his entrepreneurial background as a pioneer of the AI and Deep Learning space from studying philosophy at Oxford to his eventual founding of DeepMind and subsequently Inflection AI. He recounts the inception of groundbreaking AI concepts, Google’s acquisition of DeepMind, and the importance of ethics in AI. In his book, Mustafa proposes the idea of a modern Turing Test to mitigate the spread of misinformation, AI’s paradoxical impact on productivity and stability, and the vision of a fully digital ‘Chief of Staff’ called Pi.
The Coming Wave was released on September 5th and can be found here: https://www.the-coming-wave.com/
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“The ability to synthesize information into a moment around which we use our judgment to make a decision, and based on that deliver an action that achieves the power objective that we're looking for... That's what it means to parallelize and scale up the idea of intelligence. It's no longer going to be constrained by the processing power of our biological substrate. It's going to become a commodity, we're turning it into capital."
