Subj : Diary of a CEO podcast
To   : All
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Aug 07 2025 07:26:26

There's an interesting DOAC podcast featuring Mo Gawdat, author of
several books and ex CBO of Google (x). Talks a lot about AI, the
subject of an earlier book called "Scary Smart".

He laments about the worldwide military industrial complex and the
amount of money mankind spends on war. Poverty, poor education, health care
and climate change are all fixable problems if we didn't spend trillions
on replacing weapons of war.

He talks about the consolidation of LLMs, the myth that AI will force
people into other jobs (because the other jobs they would move to are
incompatible or they themselves will be replaced...)

One of his comments was to become a plumber, because human-shaped robots
are where the industry wants to go. You could make a plumberbot now, but
it wouldn't be anthropomorphic. He suggests you have about a 10 year
head start.

He sees 10 years of dystopia before things turn around to a world where
people don't need to work as a primary focus and can try to improve
things.

He sees AIs akin to an IQ enhancer. If My IQ is 100 and someone else's
is 50, and you add 300 IQ points through the use of AI, the difference
isn't material at that point.

Part of that turnaround will be when AIs start writing the next AIs.

Definitely worth a listen.




 
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